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Days of Glory "Indigenes"


J'ai eu la chance de pouvoir regarder ce film :

Rachid Bouchareb's powerful pedagogical film chronicles the journey of four North African soldiers who join the French army to help liberate France from Nazi occupation during World War II. Re-creating a chapter largely erased from the pages of history, the film -- which got an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film and won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for its ensemble cast -- pays overdue tribute to the heroism of these forgotten troops.

C'est un film important qui devrait etre montre dans toutes les ecoles de France. Cela aiderait peut etre a developer la comprehension et le respect pour ceux qui sont maintenant denigres le droit de vivre en France et de recevoir les memes benefices et droits que tout le monde au nom de l'egalite et de la fraternite.
 

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Login to find out (June 15, 2007 at 1:35am)
I loved that movie and i am not ashamed to say that i cried... hmmm...i posted a je wbout days of Glory when it came on cinema...
anyway, i do feel related to this as far as my grand-father fight with the spanish army...ok he was not with frenchies but he helped the Spanish against Franco.
 
Login to find out (June 14, 2007 at 4:55pm)
Ok, I can talk hours about this film, I got a DVD, but it does not work here in the US, so I'll have to buy another one or somehow crack my DVD player.

Anyway, I cried for approximately 6 hours after watching it (yes, even on the subway train, people were looking and stuff). I felt like it opened my eyes on France, on France that I did not know, did not study, on a totally different society. I think it is one France's best films of the past decade. It changes one's perspective of what is right and what is wrong and what true heroism is really all about.