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[QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 5145461, member: 7894"]
"White Bird" is tangentially related to "Wonder" (about the kid with severe facial deformities going to public school for the first time).  The bully from that, Julian, got expelled from the school.  This finds him several years later at a different school, not really learning his lesson.  He knows not to be a bully anymore, but only to stay out of trouble, doesn't really get the wrongness of it.

Enter his grandmother played by the wondrous Helen Mirren.  Most of the movie is a flashback to her as a young teen in occupied France during WWII.  She tells him her story so he can understand the importance of kindness.  She's Jewish.  During the day all the Jewish students were rounded up at school, she evaded capture.  Her classmate, who has polio, takes her in and his family shelters her in their barn for more than a year.

The young leads Ariella Glaser and Orlando Schwerdt did a really good job.  Gillian Anderson played the boy's mother.

Like anything about WWII, it's a tough watch.  Heartbreaking and infuriating.  Really good though I thought.  My one issue, the scene with the wolves in the forest just felt totally out of place, I don't know why they went that route.
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