A new film starring the Oscar winner Jean Dujardin as a Nazi collaborator has reopened one of France’s most enduring historical wounds: its Vichy past. The historical drama, Les Rayons et les Ombres (Rays and Shadows), tells the true story of a left-wing journalist’s journey from pacifism to collaboration as a mouthpiece for Nazi propaganda. The director Xavier Giannoli said the film aims to understand what motivated Jean Luchaire, who was executed in 1946, without judging or excusing his actions. Told from the perspective of his devoted daughter Corinne, it has ignited a row that lays bare France’s unfinished reckoning...
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