One of Resnais’s most stylistically accessible and politically committed films, La Guerre est finie tells of an aging Spanish leftist (Montand) who travels between Paris and Spain as part of a clandestine group dedicated to the overthrow of the Franco regime. Torn emotionally between his long established mistress (Thulin) and a young student (Bujold), and challenged by younger revolutionaries to realize that the center of the political struggle has moved away from him, he is forced to make choices about his life and his political ideals. A series of premonitions told in “flash forward” near the film’s conclusion make powerful statements about memory and aspiration, commitment and faith.