Unlike the Vietnam War, which spawned Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket and several other modern classics, the Algerian War, which was very much France’s Vietnam, did no such thing. In fact, beyond a few outliers like The Battle of Algiers (an Italian-Algerian production with a partial French cast) or the work of director René Vautier, many of whose movies were banned upon release, French cinema generally steered clear of a major 20th century conflict that would mark the end of its colonial empire. Or else, in films as diverse as Godard’s Le Petit soldat, Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg or ...
- 1/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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