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- This film is a labor of love, delicious to watch and full of tenderness for General de Gaulle as a person. Made for TV, (two episodes 1 hour 3/4 each), it retraces some of the most salient events in the General's life, from the start of WW II up to his assuming power in 1959, events which are evoked through family conversations or meetings with his close companions, i.e. his supporters through his political career. There are also actual newsreels from these events. But the standpoint of the film is not primarily historical - a knowledge of the period's history being almost a prerequisite to fully understand the film's niceties -; the standpoint is mostly personal: an effort to recreate what it felt to live close to this great man. There are frequent flashbacks to de Gaulle's role during WW II, his dealings with Reynaud, Churchill, Roosevelt (and Gen. Giraud - his onetime American-backed rival). The second part of the film describes, no less interestingly, his life through the IVth Republic. Born in 1944, having lived in France through the post-war political turmoils and the Algerian "events", also most interested in the history of WW II, I have found this film very credible. The dialogues in French (or broken French in the case of Churchill), delivered by excellent actors, literally recreate the "look and feel" of those times. The film is such that the dialogues can be savoured primarily by fluent French speakers. I do not know of the version in English - which may nevertheless be of interest to those seeking a French viewpoint on de Gaulle's life. __ .
- On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Territoires Rennes looks back on the major public urban methods and approaches that have redefined the spatial planning of the City of Rennes and more recently of Rennes Métropole.
- 1947. The rush to the poles marked the beginning of an incredible human adventure to discover the last-remaining unknown lands. In France, Paul-E?mile Victor persuaded the government to finance expeditions to explore the Arctic and Antarctic. For the pioneers the conditions were Dantean, all in the name of science.
- A documentary short subject about immigrants who come to work in France.
- Shot in West Africa in 1949 by a very young man fresh out of film school, censored in France from 1950 to 1990, 'Africa 50' is the first overtly anti-colonialist film in French cinema. This all-out attack on France's African policy was a scathing indictment, which the French government did everything in its power to suppress. It was also the first film by René Vautier, who would go on to make 'Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès' (1971), another significant film about French policy in Africa. By retracing the peregrinations of the director between Africa and France, and placing 'Africa 50' in its post-war historical and political context, 'Le Petit Blanc à la caméra rouge' invites us to (re)discover this b/w 17-minute film.
- Presents five masterpieces of architecture in Brittany (Rennes, St-Joseph de Kermaria and Beg Meil) and in Loire-Atlantique (St-Nazaire).
- A young French talks about his encounter with an Algerian colleague in an oil company after the independence of Algeria. In a meeting over vine and dates, he ingenuously tells about his role in the war and how his Algerian colleague reacted to this.
- 2016–202359mTV Episode