Tag Archives: Second World War

love in times of war (Film: Suite francaise – Michelle Williams, 2014)

Posted on December 30, 2015 by admin

The life and death of Irène Némirovsky and the fate of the cycle of novels that inspired ‘Suite francaise‘ could be the subject of a thrilling movie, a different one. Born in 1903 in an Ukrainian Jewish family, she took … Continue reading →

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heroic view of the Bielski brothers story (Film: Defiance – Edward Zwick, 2008)

Posted on October 11, 2013 by admin

Defiance tells about one of the lesser known episodes of World War II in which a group of Polish Jews saved themselves from the ghettos and the executions by the German occupiers and their local collaborators and formed a partisans … Continue reading →

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Film: L’Armee des Ombres (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)

Posted on August 22, 2010 by admin

I was writing a while ago that when Quentin Tarantino was making Inglorious Basterds he was not so much making a film about the Second World War and the Holocaust, but more a Tarantino film that happens during the Second … Continue reading →

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Film: Laissez-Passer (Bertrand Tavernier – 2002)

Posted on July 14, 2010 by admin

Life under German occupation was a subject that was treated in the French cinema in a gradual manner, differing according to the time of the production, reflecting the process of coping with the darkest hour of the history of France … Continue reading →

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