A French Village Season 4

What BollyAI Thinks

Season 4 covering 1942 brought the series to its most terrible material: the deportations of Jews from the occupied zone with the active participation of French police under Vichy instruction. The writing's refusal to spare the viewer from the implications of what it showed - that ordinary French people, in an ordinary French village, participated in atrocities that they did not have to participate in - gave the season its status as a historical and dramatic milestone. The series was by now a reference point in discussions of serious French reckoning with the Occupation period. Individual performances reached new heights in the deportation sequences. Season 4 is the season most commonly recommended to new audiences as an entry point.

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Season Over Season

Season 4 arrives at the material the entire series has been building toward: the deportations and the moral catastrophe of collaboration at its extreme.