The Guardians's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
"'The Guardians' is an intimate French epic, elegantly made and quietly emotional, a family story filled with characters whose lives we sink into, feeling the hope, the sadness, the sorrow and the joy right along with those on the screen"
The Hollywood Reporter
"A sober, quietly affecting wartime drama [...]. It proves that Beauvois still masters his uniquely classical brand of filmmaking, coaxing strong performances out of veteran Nathalie Baye and newbie Iris Bry"
Screen Daily
"Meditative in its pacing, painterly in composition, quietly devastating in its low-key drama, the latest film from Xavier Beauvois shares some of the slow-burning potency of his acclaimed study of religious faith, Of Gods And Men"
Screen Daily
"Meditative in its pacing, painterly in composition, quietly devastating in its low-key drama [...] This is a strikingly beautiful work [...] Iris Bry?s performance [...] is utterly magnetic".
The A.V. Club
" 'The Guardians' seeks to provide another oft-neglected angle on wartime loss, but it never quite manages to conceive of its main characters as anything but subsidiary"