‘De Gaulle’ Director Antonin Baudry on Pathé’s Next Epic, Roosevelt and Why ‘Europe’s Narrative Has Been Written by the Americans’

By Elsa Keslassy

Elsa Keslassy

International Correspondent

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As French cinema continues to embrace large-scale event filmmaking, Antonin Baudry’s “De Gaulle: Résistance” arrives as Pathé’s latest ambitious historical epic, following the blockbuster success of “The Count of Monte Cristo” and “The Three Musketeers” diptych. The first installment of a two-part saga chronicling Charles de Gaulle’s wartime years, the film world premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it drew warm reviews. Variety hailed it as “a proudly French and massively scaled production with the energy of a vintage Hollywood blockbuster” — one that “interrogates the past and sheds some light on the present.” The film has also been critically praised for Simon Abkarian’s performance as De Gaulle, as well as its exploration of the French leader’s tumultuous relationship with Winston Churchill.

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