I just saw the film at a small theatre in Tokyo. It was a biopic about the French politician who lived through holocaust and after the war became a lawyer and the minister of French government and became the first female president of European Union assembly. She helped promote women's rights by legalisation of abortion in France, 1970's. She contributed to improvement of prisoners' condition. Why was she so enthusiastic about human rights issues? The film started with her childhood in Nice with her family living in a happy condition before the second world war. Her...