Charles de Gaulle biopic proves facts don’t always make a great story
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In the public imagination, Charles de Gaulle is more monument than man. He’s remembered in profile with the ramrod-stiff back, the narrow head topped by the ever-present military kepi and the imperious nose which looks as if it’s kept permanently busy sniffing out threats to its owner’s beloved France.
Felix Back and Lambert Wilson in de Gaulle.
Credit:Palace Films
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de Gaulle, director Gabriel Le Bomin is making an earnest effort to bring the statue alive. He’s focused his account of de Gaulle’s tumultuous life during a few critical months in 1940 when the Nazis invaded France. In June of that year, de Gaulle made his way to London to ask Churchill for support in his bid to establish a French force to work against the Vichy Government’s armistice with Germany. It was the beginnings of the French resistance and a pivotal point in the war.