"Dare the nuance",
pleaded this fall Didier Pourquery in a delicate essay published by Presses de la Cité.
He will therefore like the film
Farewell Monsieur Haffmann
(in theaters January 12), by Fred Cavayé, which deals with rare finesse, all in
nuance
, the most complex subject there is: the Jews in France under the Occupation
.
To discover
The peasant humor of Bodins does not make Paris laugh
Joseph Haffmann is a jeweler in Paris.
One of the most famous.
His employee François Mercier does not breathe happiness: he is lame, infertile and does not have the qualities that would one day allow him to succeed him.
But the toughening of anti-Jewish legislation will give it a chance.
After sending his family to the free zone, his boss, a Jew, leaves him his business, his apartment, his customers and his wife's dresses - with the promise of finding them after the war.
Mercier is finally becoming someone.
Especially thanks to the Germans who appreciate his creations (those of his predecessor…).
He enriched himself, took part in drunken evenings with the officers ...
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