It's 1944 London. Louise Desfontaines (Sophie Marceau) and brother Pierre Desfontaines (Julien Boisselier) are part of Special Operations Executive tasked with extracting a British geologist who is testing the beaches of Normandy. They recruit Jeanne Faussier (Julie Depardieu), an imprisoned whore who killed her pimp. They threaten Suzy Desprez (Marie Gillain) who is hiding her past as a dancer and mistress to a Nazi. Gaëlle Lemenech (Déborah François) is a chemical explosive expert bored with being a secretary. Maria Luzzato (Maya Sansa) is an Italian Jewish radio operator. The group go into occupied France to search for the captured geologist. Later, Pierre Desfontaines forces an almost suicidal mission on the women to go to Paris and kill SS Colonel Heindrich who may know too much about Normandy.
I like the recruiting and the various female characters. However, the mission strikes me as being very wrong-headed. If they spend so much effort to get the geologist, then it would be essentially the same as a confirmation that Normandy is important. They may as well shine a neon sign on the guy that he's a secret agent. The only realistic plan is to confirm that the geologist is held at the hospital and then bomb the building to smithereens. That way the geologist is killed and it wouldn't be obvious. It would also kill his interrogators. This whole movie feels like a badly conceived Bond movie.
I like the recruiting and the various female characters. However, the mission strikes me as being very wrong-headed. If they spend so much effort to get the geologist, then it would be essentially the same as a confirmation that Normandy is important. They may as well shine a neon sign on the guy that he's a secret agent. The only realistic plan is to confirm that the geologist is held at the hospital and then bomb the building to smithereens. That way the geologist is killed and it wouldn't be obvious. It would also kill his interrogators. This whole movie feels like a badly conceived Bond movie.