A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
Roger Ebert wrote: ¨This magical and elusive work, which always seems to place second behind "Citizen Kane" in polls of great films, is so simple and so labyrinthine, so guileless and so angry, so innocent and so dangerous, that you can't simply watch it, you have to absorb it.¨