Suite Française is a 2015 war romantic drama film directed by Saul Dibb and co-written with Matt Charman.

However, Bruno's suspicious orderly suspects that Lucile is harboring Benoit and issues special instructions for the checkpoint guards to search her car.

While Lucile later learns that Bruno von Falk perished during the war, she always treasures his musical score Suite Française.

On 9 November 2006, Michael Fleming from Variety reported that the rights to Irène Némirovsky's novel Suite Française (written during the Nazi occupation of France but published posthumously in 2004) had been acquired by Universal Pictures.

Her works were expected to have been created within the war years erworks Ronald Harwood, who wrote the script for The Pianist, was set to write the screenplay, with Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall producing the film.

[6] Dibb focused his adaptation on book two of Némirovsky's novels, which explores the relationships between the French women and the German soldiers who occupied their village, in particular the story of Lucile Angellier.

The action should feel that it's happening now – urgent, tense, spontaneous, made with no benefit of hindsight – like we've discovered a time capsule.

[8] Variety's Jeff Sneider reported in October 2012 that actress Michelle Williams was in talks to star in Suite Française as the protagonist Lucile Angellier.

[12] On 14 June 2013, Dominic Patten from Deadline Hollywood reported that actor Sam Riley had joined the cast as a French farmer called Benoit.

[13] Riley's wife Alexandra Maria Lara also joined the cast, along with fellow actresses Margot Robbie as Celine and Ruth Wilson as Madeleine.

[14][15] Actors Tom Schilling and Lambert Wilson also appear in the film, as Kurt Bonnet and Viscount de Montmort, respectively.

[3][15] Harriet Walter portrays Viscountess de Montmort, while Eileen Atkins appears as Denise Epstein and Cédric Maerckx as Gaston Angellier.

[20] His major influences were Némirovsky's novel, which describes the clothing in detail, and Jean Renoir's 1939 film The Rules of the Game.

[20] The film's countryside setting led Jenny Shircore, the hair and make-up designer for the production,[19] to invoke a sense of sobriety in place of glamor.

[7] Desplat wrote Bruno's Theme, but was unable to write the final score for the entire film and was replaced by Rael Jones.

[24] On 19 May 2013, it was announced that The Weinstein Company would also handle the distribution rights in Latin America, Australia, Russia and Germany,[6][16] while Entertainment One would release the picture in the U.K., Spain and Canada.

The website's critical consensus states, "Suite Française takes an understated approach to its period romance, which – along with strong performances from a talented cast – pays absorbing dividends.

"[41] The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the film two stars out of five and likened the central love story to "a damp haddock on a slab".

[42] He continued, "This adaptation of Irène Némirovsky's acclaimed bestseller about French folk collaborating with the Nazis is flabby, sugary – and passion-free.

"[42] Emma Dibdin from Digital Spy gave the film three stars and commented, "Suite Française works far better as the story of a community in flux than it does as a brooding romance, the shifting loyalties between villagers and soldiers escalating towards a somewhat compelling third act.

"[43] Anna Smith from Empire rated the film "good" and said "Sterling performances lift the occasionally soapy storyline in this semi-successful adaptation.

"[44] Variety's Guy Lodge found the film "fusty but enjoyably old-fashioned", adding "iffy scripting decisions can't thwart the romantic allure of this handsomely crafted, sincerely performed wartime weeper.

"[45] Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Leslie Felperin's consensus was "[Suite Française] has sturdy production values, a tony cast and middlebrow tastefulness up the wazoo, but barely any soul, bite or genuine passion.