DÉCRYPTAGE – Two months after The Rays and the Shadows, the Cannes Film Festival is screening four films about the period. A work of memory that favors nuance and probes the heart of heroes and collaborators.
She doesn’t really look 80 years old. The Second World War is back on screen these days with brilliant sunshine, little soldiers, and great men. It had been a long time since the conflict had been represented with such means. About 70 million euros were spent on the two parts of The Battle of Gaulle – a curious title – which the festival-goers discovered the first episode on Wednesday evening. Two weeks before the rest of France. The most illustrious of the French, played by Simon Abkarian, walked the red carpet not far from General König (Benoît Magimel) and Marshal Leclerc (Niels Schneider).
This high command embodies the new wave of films dedicated to the period and screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Moulin, by Laszlo Nemes, illustrates the ordeal of the prefect who refused to yield to Klaus Barbie, Our Salvation, by Emmanuel Marre, explores the Vichy machine, and The Third Night, by Daniel Auteuil, recounts the rescue of young Jews in 1942. The end.
