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French films War
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Les Fragments d’Antonin is a remarkable first film from director Gabriel Le Bomin that offers a poignant meditation on the folly of war and the unquantifiable human cost of the First World War. For a wartime drama it is unusual in that the story is told through flashbacks, and very effectively so, but what makes it particularly special is that it is concerned not with the physical impact...
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Mon colonel is a film that provides a sobering reflection on the war that France would still like to forget, and with good reason. "France without Algeria is not France" was a mantra that was oft repeated during Algeria’s war of independence (1954-1962) as the country supposedly wedded to the notion of liberty, egality and fraternity fought tooth and nail to hold onto its colonial past...
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One of the most depressing trends in French cinema recently is the one where relatively inexperienced film directors attempt to combine genres which are manifestly incompatible, thereby arousing a level of interest which is seldom merited. La France is a sublime example of this – an eccentric synthesis of traditional wartime drama with musical comedy which is...
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L'Armée du crime tells the story of a group of resistance fighters in Paris in the second world war, called the Manouchian group, after the name of one of the leaders. At an early screening in Marseille, Robert Guediguian, the director, stated that this group, composed of young people of all nationalities and backgrounds...
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