I watched this film which had been shown on the US cable channel TV 5 as a tribute to the lovely actress Micheline Presle who turned 100 in 2022.
She has a good role as a long time floral shop proprietor in a tight little urban "quartier" where people seem to have known each other for years
Tensions develop when a biographer (well played by Francis Huster) uncovers clues about the denunciations people made in the early 1940s that resulted in Jews being sent to death camps.
When he wants to follow up on his leads the current political administration gives him a hard time. And the neighborhood doesn't want to talk about what happened back then.
Will he find an explanation for why someone like the flower lady behaved the way she did? Does the story try to excuse her for it?
The gripping story is from a novel by the acclaimed Pierre Assouline, himself a biographer.
