Dramatic events are continuing as a German soldier tries to know specifically whether the Dutch resistance has set a spy to run into the Kaiser's home in the Netherlands during World War II but falls in love with a young Dutch Jewish woman during his investigation. After falling in love will change all his plans, and goes to his love to do everything that is beautiful in his life.
This is somewhat well-trod ground... But the sturdy, engrossing The Exception makes a moving portrait of individuals recalibrating their allegiances under the maw of the Third Reich.
This quasi-biographical drama could have been a dry-as-a-bone history lesson, filled with exposition and explanation, but instead it turns into a glossy romance.
A handsomely mounted World War II-era romantic thriller, enlivened by vibrant performances and vivid sexual encounters and inspired by a little-known footnote to history, the story of a ruler who left but never went away.
Leveaux's film occasionally risks stuffiness, but he cuts that with a few truly sexy sex scenes, and enough tension and intrigue to deliver a satisfying, cathartic payoff.
