War of the Buttons (2011 Christophe Barratier film)

War of the Buttons
Film poster
FrenchLa nouvelle guerre des boutons
Directed byChristophe Barratier
Written byStéphane Keller
Christophe Barratier
Philippe Lopes-Curval
Based onWar of the Buttons
by Louis Pergaud
Produced byThomas Langmann
Daniel Delume
Emmanuel Montamat
StarringGuillaume Canet
Laetitia Casta
Kad Merad
Gérard Jugnot
CinematographyJean Poisson
Edited byAnne-Sophie Bion
Yves Deschamps
Music byPhilippe Rombi
Distributed byMars Films
Release date
  • 21 September 2011 (2011-09-21)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$16 million [1]
Box office$15.1 million [2]

War of the Buttons (French: La nouvelle guerre des boutons) is a 2011 French film directed by Christophe Barratier.[3]

Plot

The story takes place in March 1944 in a small French village. The young people from the neighbouring villages of Longeverne and Velrans have been waging this merciless war as long as anyone can remember: the buttons of all the little prisoners' clothes are removed so that they head home almost naked, vanquished and humiliated. Consequently, this conflict is known as the "War of the Buttons". The village that collects the most buttons will be declared the winner. Meanwhile, Violette, a young Jewish girl, has caught the eye of Lebrac, the intelligent chief of the Longeverne kids who is coming of age, leading his gang and their rivals to consider putting aside their differences in order to protect her from the Nazis.

Cast

Production

Principal photography began on 23 May 2011 and took place in the villages of Blesle, Lavaudieu and Lavoûte-Chilhac in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France. A few scenes were shot in the Cantal department. Filming continued until 8 August.[4]

Discography

The CD soundtrack composed by Philippe Rombi was released on Music Box Records label.

Reception

As of June 2020, the film holds a 25% approval rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 4.82 out of 10.[5] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 41 out of 100, based on 14 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[6]

References

  1. ^ "La Nouvelle guerre des boutons (War of the Buttons (2012)) (2011)". JPBox-Office. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  2. ^ "War of the Buttons".
  3. ^ "The War of the Buttons (II)". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  4. ^ Sauron, Fred (24 July 2011). "La Nouvelle Guerre des boutons : des vedettes en culottes courtes dans les rues de Blesle". Le Progrès (in French). Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  5. ^ "La nouvelle guerre des boutons (War of the Buttons) (2012)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  6. ^ "War of the Buttons". Metacritic. Retrieved 7 June 2020.


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