The story centers on a Holocaust-surviving Jewish girl whose father throws her from a moving train heading to Auschwitz and ultimately found by a woodcutter and his family.
Hazanavicius boarded the project in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought it to a halt, allowing him to shoot the 2022 zombie-comedy film Final Cut in the interim.[3]
Initially announced for the voice of the Woodcutter, Gérard Depardieu was finally removed from the cast, by mutual agreement between the production and the actor, following the actor's accusations of rape and sexual assault.[4] He was replaced by Grégory Gadebois.
The film features narration from Jean-Louis Trintignant in what would ultimately be his final film role, with said narration being recorded prior to his death in 2022.[5][6]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of 12 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.3/10.[11]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[12] On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on 42 reviews from French critics.[13]
