A Bag Of Marbles Comments

Parents need to know that a bag of marbles is a fact based french language film subtitled in english about two young jewish brothers who evade the nazis during world war ii expect frequent tension peril and a fair amount of occupation related violence some against women and children.

A bag of marbles comments. A bag of marbles un sac de billes turns nazi occupied france into an obstacle course for two young jewish boys on the run and their plight into slickly sentimental thriller material for all. Fleeing citizens jews and nazi resistors are roughly rounded up. Some are shot and killed both in groups. A bag of marbles un sac de billes is based on the best selling autobiographical novel by joseph joffo but here we aren t treated to the bleak battlefield often shown with such subject matter.

Yes the film recounts a real life tale of survival but the fate of its lead protagonists in no way diminishes the grueling hardships they face on every step of their journey. The beginning of the book starts off during what would seem to be any ordinary day for a ten year old boy who has just lost a game of marbles to his. Familial devotion expressed in treacly but tender fashion is what powers a bag of marbles through its growingly fraught series of complications separations and.