A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

1998 · 127 min · IT · R · 6.1 (19 votes)
Dir. James Ivory · Starring Kris Kristofferson, Leelee Sobieski, Jane Birkin, Barbara Hershey, Dominique Blanc, Virginie Ledoyen · Music Richard Robbins

The city of lights. A famous American author and the decade that changed a generation...forever.

Drama

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.

VIBE

A tender, melancholic look at a unique family navigating unconventional lives. It feels like a wistful, introspective journey through adolescence and belonging, set against a backdrop of artistic bohemianism and cultural clashes.

melancholicintrospectivenostalgicwistfulslow-burnslice-of-lifecharacter-drivenarthousecoming-of-agefamilyidentityoutsiders
parisfrancebased on novel or book1970sfamily relationshipscoming of ageauthornew englandadopted brother1960sadopted son