Sweeping Blockbuster Follows General De Gaulle From Bully Victim to Mega-Hero
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REVIEW. Two lavish films depict General Charles de Gaulle and his resistance to the Germans. They provide both broad entertainment and a certain sense of the sweep of history.
A stubborn French general refused to accept defeat against the Germans and managed against all odds to change history. The new French blockbuster, the first of two parts, tells the story of Charles de Gaulle's winding road to victory. Heroic and brash but also a complex story with strong energy, writes Helena Lindblad.
The film "The Battle of de Gaulle: Resistance", in theaters Friday, tells the story of Charles de Gaulle's fierce fight for the liberation of France from Nazi rule.
Hollywood gets a fight to the finish in the great French war film about the military man and arch-patriot Charles de Gaulle.
By portraying the Resistance in its most heroic light, Antonin Baudry's *La bataille de Gaulle* breaks with decades of films focused on collaboration. A return to postwar "Resistance-centric" cinema? This hagiography of General de Gaulle is much more than that. The American Allies are depicted in a new light: as both an occupying force and a liberating army, whose hegemonic ambitions form the central thread of the narrative. Baudry's two-part fi…
“De Gaulle: The Price of Resistance” is beautiful, gripping and historically fascinating, but the French hero worship and the film's somewhat creative handling of World War II drag it down.
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