DE GAULLE, this year’s major French film release, is a two-part biographical account of the French leader’s role in rallying the French after the shameful collapse of its bourgeois institutions before the Nazi advance.Director Antonin Baudry, with co-writer Berenice Vila, drew on A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by British historian Julian Jackson, a leading academic authority on modern France.

NICK WRIGHT laments the political bias of an epic attempt to tell the history of the liberation of France from the Nazis, that excludes both the decisive contribution of the Soviet Red Army, and of the French communist party itself

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