Gaumont’s WWII Drama ‘Rays and Shadows’ Triggers Firestorm and Reopens France’s Deepest Wound Over Nazi Past

Half a century after Gaumont delivered France’s first film on Nazi collaboration with Louis Malle’s “Lacombe Lucien,” the studio finds itself at the center of a full-blown national culture war with Xavier Giannoli’s polarizing “Rays and Shadows.” Tackling the taboo topic of French collaboration with the Nazis during the German occupation of France during WWII, […]

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