The new film by Gabriel Le Bomin De Gaulle , with Lambert Wilson and Isabelle Carré received an enthusiastic reception during the preview organized at the École Militaire, in the presence of the de Gaulle family and many personalities.
At 6.30 p.m., the screening was preceded by a round table on freedom and engagement, inspired by a quote from General de Gaulle: "At the base of our civilization, there is freedom of thought in everyone, his beliefs, his opinions, his work, his hobbies ”. Gaull's engagement is " civilizational and moral, " says architect Roland Castro, while Colonel Hervé Pierre highlights the consubstantial link between freedom and engagement.
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The historian Olivier Wieworcka, advisor on the film, recalls Sartre's paradoxical observation: " We have never been so free as under occupation ." Before commenting: "Freedom was exercised because we were confronted with choices of individual commitment . ”Doctor of cognitive neurosciences, Albert Moukheiber adds: “ constraint can promote freedom . ”And to retrace the process that leads from external conditioning to decision - or not.
Then Geneviève Darrieusecq, Secretary of State for the Armies introduced the film, emphasizing the originality of her point of view: " It was the choice of the human being and the feeling that Gabriel Le Bomin made ." make the choice of the mystery ”, she specifies a little further.
An ordinary and exceptional family
Indeed, his De Gaulle is an intimate epic, which evokes the family life of the general and penetrates the solitude of his conscience during the tragic months of April to June 1940, until the Appeal of June 18.
"It seemed to me a fairly human temporality: this is the moment when it becomes De Gaulle," says the director, surrounded by his historic couple, Charles and Yvonne. As much as Lambert Wilson had to face an archi-known image and voice, as much Isabelle Carré is pleased to have had all the latitude to imagine Yvonne, given her discretion. The actor took the judicious part to avoid a strict imitation. And if it has a somewhat schematic aspect, and the film sometimes a comic side (as in the images of the exodus), these aspects are exceeded by the power of the story, and the empathy with this ordinary and exceptional family, so incredibly classic and adventurous, strict and unconventional.
Carried by the breath of history, and the force communicated by their little Anne, Down's syndrome. Isabelle Carré insists on this presence which continues to spread the love of life. This atypical De Gaulle, simple and deep, speaks to all French people. An enthusiastic ovation greeted him in the Foch amphitheater.