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Biopic in all its platitude

Lambert Wilson is Charles de Gaulle. © JMH Distribution
Lambert Wilson is Charles de Gaulle. © JMH Distribution
Biopic in all its platitude
Biopic in all its platitude

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03/04/2020

De Gaulle »Close your eyes. Now imagine what a biographical film devoted to General de Gaulle could look like … You can see, this famous actor with his false nose and his rubber ears? No, Gérard Depardieu we dare not, let’s stay serious all the same. Take the other one instead. Lambert Wilson. Here. Now you can view the events of the start of the Second World War and at the end of the journey the famous call of June 18. Yes, yes, with the date overprinted. And that’s the job …

It all started in 1940. The de Gaulle family was reunited in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. Charles (Lambert Wilson, therefore), then only colonel, must go to the front. He leaves behind his wife Yvonne (Isabelle Carré), two grown sons and a youngest, Anne, suffering from Down’s syndrome. However, everything did not start so badly since the film focuses on a key moment in the life of the statesman: the month of June 1940, during which Charles de Gaulle will be

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