FREE MEN was just screened to a sold-out crowd at the Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York. It was a wonderfully acted, well told fictional film of Arabs helping resistance fighters (including North African Jews) during the German occupation of France during WW2.
Dramatic and suspenseful, pitting collaborators versus resistance fighters, gestapo officials versus the authorities at a mosque.
Given the ethnic tensions in Paris today, this film offers an alternate vision of unity in the face of oppression.
Definitely worth seeing on the festival circuit or in art house release.
Dramatic and suspenseful, pitting collaborators versus resistance fighters, gestapo officials versus the authorities at a mosque.
Given the ethnic tensions in Paris today, this film offers an alternate vision of unity in the face of oppression.
Definitely worth seeing on the festival circuit or in art house release.