Sad, Disturbing, Sweet Film

Rating: 9/10 (4 December 2017)

This is an incredibly good movie. It will anger you, disturb you, make you smile and make you sad. It really captures how tough it was to be poor in the south and how difficult it was for the men who came home to that after WWII.
The acting is excellent and the scenery is sometimes beautiful and sometimes depressing.
The only criticism I have of the film is it portrays the relationship between Ronsel and the German woman in a romantic way. Nothing would have been further from the truth during and after the war. She would have been an outcast. The Germans referred to these women as "sluts" and "Ami-lovers" and their children were branded as "bastards". This would have been even worse for her as she gave birth to a black child. It would have been more believable if the woman had been French rather than German.
Other than that it's an incredibly good movie from beginning to end.