Declaration of War( Valérie Donzelli 2011): France

Reviewed by Lulu Yamaguchi. Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival.

This Movie is for everyone who is suffering their life.

Roméo and Juliette are young couple. Soon they have a child Adam after they start to live together. Everything seems alright till they find Adam has brain tumor. Now war has started.  Roméo and Juliette must be tough to go through the situation. The film shows audience very clearly how they become stronger in a scene of running. They lose breath so bad.  But in a while, their steps become firmer.

Roméo asks Juliette why it happened Adam. Juliette answers “Because we can overcome.”

Please don’t read rest of my review if you don’t want to know the ending.

At the end Adam is cured. He still has a possibility to have cancer but it is the same percentage as the other ordinary people’s.

In my opinion, these kind of story concludes sad ending because people seek after realistic. Real life is harder than we expected. However, this movie concludes happy ending. I am satisfied with it. As Juliette says, they could overcome. If it were sad story, we cannot find why we suffer hard situations.