Three leaders of the French Resistance fight parallel battles during World War Two to liberate a Free France - and the whole of Europe - from Nazi occupation.

In her first English-language role, Italian star Monica Vitti incarnates the British comic-strip heroine Modesty Blaise blending Barbarella-style allure with Bond -style espionage capers.

Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall star in this unflinchingly knotty drama about a woman and her stepfather at odds over her dementia-stricken mother.