Why is Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille) not recommended under 7?

What's in it: our reading; a war where nobody dies on screen; shouting, slaps and grumbling; the wine and tobacco of the era; turkish baths and shared beds. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille): what age is it for? 7 alone, 6 with a parent

Q: What age is Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille) appropriate for?

7 alone, 6 with a parent; 7 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

7 alone, 6 with a parent.

Movie · 1966 · 2 h 12 · comedy, war

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The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralonethe sweet spot

Alone from 7; from 6, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

The sweet spot: around 8-10, when you have learned at school who occupied France, and can laugh at shouting soldiers without being afraid of them. Why a sweet spot?

In France, zinema would say 7.

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What it's about

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

Why 7

Our readingA comedy where the bullets only hit barrels and pumpkins: the shouting and the uniforms are scenery, nobody bleeds; seven, six with a parent explaining the Occupation.
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A war where nobody dies on screenGerman soldiers shouting, shooting and chasing through the whole film, a bomber shot down, a shootout in a hotel, a chase by glider and sidecar: it is the setting of a comedy, and the bullets only hit barrels and pumpkins. Twice someone says people died, without showing it.
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Shouting, slaps and grumblingThe two heroes bicker, mock and shove each other; officers yell; the conductor humiliates his musicians. Lots of noise, a few old-fashioned swear words, and long stretches of slapstick fighting.
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The wine and tobacco of the eraWine at every meal, smoking in offices and cafés, as in 1942: it is scenery, not a subject.
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Turkish baths and shared bedsTwo men end up in the same bed by mistake, a Turkish bath where people recognize each other in towels, a nun and a puppeteer's granddaughter who help the fugitives: gags, nothing awkward.
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What the movie brings

The Occupation told through laughter: a child understands who the Germans, the British and the Resistance are without a drop of blood.
Two Frenchmen who dislike each other and help each other anyway, because they must.
A piece of family memory: the film French grandparents quote by heart.

Watching it together

Before

Explain beforehand who occupies France and why people hide; the rest, children follow on their own, and laugh where you laugh.

After

at 7 and up

Why do the conductor and the painter help the airmen, when none of it is their business?

See the facts

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