Julie de Bona Camille Lou Women at War (French: Les Combattantes) is an eight-episode Franco-Belgian historical miniseries created by Cécile Lorne and Camille Treiner and directed by Alexandre Laurent,[2] which originally aired on Radio Télévision Suisse's RTS1, followed by RTBF's La Une and then TF1 in September 2022.
[3] In 1914, during the very first month of WW1, the destinies of four women intersect in the small town of Saint-Paulin, in the Franco-German border area of the Vosges: Marguerite de Lancastel, a mysterious Parisian sex worker; Caroline Dewitt, propelled to the head of the family factory; Mother Agnès, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent turned into a military hospital; and Suzanne Faure, an abortionist nurse on the run.
"[6] Kayleigh Dray wrote for Stylist: "Reactions to the series have been largely positive, with many praising its complex female characters, excellent twists and turns, and unflinching ability to portray 'the true horrors of World War I, both on the field and off of it.'
Others, meanwhile, have thanked producers for adopting a non-exploitative approach when weaving the stories of the four women at its center.
And plenty have piled praise on cinematographers for all of those incredible panoramas of the war-ravaged French countryside, too.