Jul 14th  
Female Agents*      
(Les Femmes de l'Ombre)
(Fra 2007)                         
TF1 Films/Renon Groupes/La Chauvre-Souris. 112m. Panavision

In 1944 a mostly female SEO commando team are parachuted into Normandy to prevent the Nazis discovering about D-Day and the artificial harbours.
Passable female variation on The Dirty Dozen, in more downbeat and slightly violent style, mainly fictionalising the adventures of the Resistance fighters although retaining its own verisimilitude.

Written by: Lauren Vachaud, Jean-Paul Salome.
Producer: Eric Neve.
Director: Jean-Paul Saleome.
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Deborah Francois, Moritz Bleibtrau, Julien Boisselier, Maya Sanda.
Photography: Pascal Ridao.
Music: Bruno Coulais.

 

Preceded by:
Look at Life: Channel Tunnel*
(GB 1960. Rank. 10m.; Insight into some of engineering excavation underground - that developed for another 34 years before the Chunnel was finally opened.)