A tenacious commonplace asserts that the Algerian war would have been neglected by French cinema.
Unlike Vietnam, widely treated by American cinema, "the nameless war" would not have inspired fiction, or only a little.
A quick glance in the rearview mirror is enough to show the invalidity of such an assertion.
Jean-Luc Godard (
Le Petit Soldat
, banned until 1963), Alain Resnais (
Muriel or the Time for a Return
), Alain Cavalier (
Le Combat dans l'île
,
L'Insoumis
), René Vautier (
Being 20 in the Aurès
), Yves Boisset (
RAS
), Laurent Heynemann (
The Question
), Pierre Schoendoerffer (
The Honor of a Captain
) or Florent Siri (
The Intimate Enemy
), many filmmakers have narrated the intimate or collective tragedies of the conflict.
On the other side of the Mediterranean, Algerian cinema has also recounted the war of independence.
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina thus won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1975 with
Chronicle of the Burning Years
.
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