Friends from France (Les Interdits, France, 2013) dir. by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski (review)

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Reviewed by: Friends from France (Les Interdits, France, 2013) dir. by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski Olga Gershenson Friends from France (Les Interdits, France, 2013), written and directed by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski, 101 min. At the beginning of the 2013 French drama Friends from France (Les Interdits), a young Parisian couple comes to Odessa, a Soviet city on the Black Sea, ostensibly on tour. The year is 1979, and the relationship between the Soviets and the West is tense, therefore, our couple and other tourists are closely scrutinized, their every step monitored by the omnipresent KGB agents. This is why the couple’s mission is so difficult: in fact, these two are no ordinary lovebirds on an exotic quest, but rather Jewish cousins who have come to the evil empire on a mission to help their less fortunate co-religionists by bringing them a few brochures about Israel, answering their questions about Judaism, and expressing solidarity. Carole (in a powerful performance by

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