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However, like his colleague, the actor currently on the poster of the film "The Rays and Shadows" clearly did not bother to open the weekly to read the investigation, according to his defense.
« Les Rayons et les Ombres », the new film by director Xavier Giannoli with Jean Dujardin in the main role, is released this Wednesday, March 18.
There is an almost irrepressible temptation in French cinema: to return to history as one returns to a crime scene – but a scene already well marked, already commented, already neutralized. The release of Les Rayons et les Ombres is fully part of this movement. Xavier Giannoli, filmmaker of the novelesque and social dissection, attacks in his film at the time of the Occupation with a manifest ambition: embrace the moral complexity of an era with…
arts24 - Director Xavier Giannoli explores the darkness and shadows of Nazi occupation
French director Xavier Giannoli's latest film sees Jean Dujardin embody the moral slide from pacifism to collaboration, as the Academy Award-winning actor helms the historical drama "Les Rayons et les Ombres". Film critic Manon Kerjean tells us why the complexity of its characters gives the film a powerful sense of nuance and why – at over three hours long – it's still a compelling watch.
With "Les Rayons et les Ombres", Xavier Giannoli finally signs a French historical film that integrates collaboration. Three hours of great cinema conducted at the pace of chargeWho today still knows the names of Corinne Luchaire, young star of the French cinema of the late 1930s, and his father, Jean Luchaire, a journalist in sight until the Occupancy? Almost no one else, but their tragic history has provided Xavier Giannoli with the ideal entr…
"Liber" guides you in the cinema releases of this Wednesday, March 18 with also "The Princess, the Logre and the Ant", "Las Corrientes" and "The Gifle". Trailers in support.
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