Charlotte Gray (2001, rated PG-13, 121 minutes) is a pedestrian World War II tale based on Sabastian Faulks’ eponymous novel that completes his war trilogy (see The Girl at the Lion d’Or and Birdsong). 
Yet, the movie builds to a potently emotional climax and a testament to love in all its forms. Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) falls in love with a British pilot whose plane goes down in France, and she volunteers to work with the French Resistance in an ill-conceived plan to find him. As it turns out, she gets personally involved with one of the Communist maquis, Julien (Billy Crudup), and endures the full range of civilian suffering in the war.
There are no soldiers in bloody uniforms or bombers over Germany or V2 strikes in London or Normandy landings.
You see war as Charlotte Gray saw it, and you feel her pain.
Read or listen to Charlotte Gray: a Novel by Sebastian Faulks
Read The Girl at the Lion D’Or by Sebastian Faulks
Listen to the audio book or read the book or ebook of Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
