The Stopover

Voir du pays (original)

6.2

/10

1h 42mDrama War

On their way home from Afghanistan, a band of French soldiers stop in Cyprus for decompression: three days at a sun-splashed resort, where they will undergo intense psychological debriefing. There, amidst the crystal-blue waters and hordes of vacationing tourists, Marine (Soko) and Aurore (Ariane Labed) – two of only three women in their male-dominated unit – confront rage, trauma, and army sexism as they struggle to readjust to “normal” life. This riveting drama – winner of the Best Screenplay award in the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes – is an all-too-rare exploration of war’s psychological wounds on female soldiers.

Spoken language: fr

Starring SoKo, Ariane Labed, Ginger Romàn, Karim Leklou, Andreas Konstantinou, Makis Papadimitriou, Alexis Manenti, Robin Barde, Sylvain Loreau, Jérémie Laheurte

Watch "The Stopover" from streaming services Kanopy, Amazon, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 2016. It's a drama and war movie, and has a rating of 6.2 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.