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'We were at Dunkirk, too' say French furious at being written out of film epic
ibtimes.co.uk ^ | July 22, 2017 13:11 BST | Isabelle Gerretsen

Posted on 07/22/2017 9:06:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Around 30,000 French troops held back Nazi divisions near the city of Lille to protect their allies during the evacuation code-named Operation Dynamo.

Renowned French film critic Jacques Mandelbaum called Nolan "witheringly impolite" and slammed the director's "deplorable indifference" towards his country's contribution to the epic evacuation.

"Where in the film are the 120,000 French soldiers who were also evacuated from Dunkirk? Where are the 40,000 who sacrificed themselves to defend the city against a superior enemy in weaponry and numbers?" he asked in his review in French newspaper Le Monde.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dunkirk; france; frenchtroops; hollywood; militaryhistory; moviereview
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To: manc

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61 posted on 07/22/2017 10:17:12 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! “Laughing my #Ossoff)
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To: jerod

Actually, the Dutch were much worse than the French in terms of collaboration, but they get credit for hiding Anne Frank (but then again, who betrayed her?)


62 posted on 07/22/2017 10:17:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Jacques is entirely correct. The Brits think they are the only ones who won the war. It gets very tiresome!


63 posted on 07/22/2017 10:19:40 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: BenLurkin

Ohh, French Whine....


64 posted on 07/22/2017 10:20:44 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Stay Calm and Carry.)
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To: LS

I agree LS. We saw it yesterday and I came close to leaving the theatre. Whoever did the editing on that film must have been on drugs. There was absolutely no cohesion. If you went into the movie with no knowledge of the events you came out the same way. Seriously disappointed.


65 posted on 07/22/2017 10:21:33 AM PDT by surrey
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To: Mollypitcher1
The Brits think they are the only ones who won the war.

There are a lot of Americans, and especially Russians, who believe their countries were the only ones who won the war.....It was indeed a team effort.

66 posted on 07/22/2017 10:22:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: hoosierham

Everyone in WWI did the same, the Germans and Americans not excluded.


67 posted on 07/22/2017 10:22:37 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: rrrod

Eastwood’s making a movie about it using the actual Americans who stopped the attack.


68 posted on 07/22/2017 10:23:20 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Mollypitcher1
Jacques is entirely correct. The Brits think they are the only ones who won the war. It gets very tiresome!

Don't get me started about how the Brits compare El Alamain to Stalingrad in it's impact on the war...

Their War Museum used to have an entire wing dedicated to Montgomery.

69 posted on 07/22/2017 10:23:22 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

“I know I’m a prima donna. I admit it. What I can’t stand about Monty is, he won’t admit it.” - Patton


70 posted on 07/22/2017 10:25:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: KC_Lion

Why wasn’t the “Great French Republic” defended to the bitter end and then some by it’s citizens? >:(
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It was defended by many who were able to escape and further the French fight with de Gaulle, and many others who stayed and enabled the success of the Allied Invasion! My husband was in the French underground and without his group slowing the advance of Das Reich,the 2nd Division Panzers, the Normandy landings could have failed. That is, ACCORDING TO DWIGHT EISENHOWER! Ever heard of him?


71 posted on 07/22/2017 10:25:38 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: surrey

Thanks. I know I’m not alone. Agree on the editing. I didn’t mention Hans Zimmer’s music, which was PERFECT in “Dark Knight Rises,” but the monotone air raid siren approach was irritating and distracting.


72 posted on 07/22/2017 10:27:10 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: freedumb2003

So without the French, you’d be speaking Brit now. You’d also have no rights beyond that of a serf.


73 posted on 07/22/2017 10:27:13 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: manc

Good. Never like to see historical pictures bomb.


74 posted on 07/22/2017 10:27:41 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: BlueLancer
My favorite member of French Resistance....oooh la la.....


75 posted on 07/22/2017 10:28:46 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SES1066

History and accuracy and the record are at the mercy of Hollywood producers on both, or all, sides of the political spectrum.

Throwing a bone to the sacrifice made by the French is not too much to ask.

After all French boys were at the mercy of their efete leadership, but they were there, nevertheless.


76 posted on 07/22/2017 10:29:20 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: manc
at the end his speech was read about fighting them on the beaches

Funny enough, one of the previews at our theater was about the film coming up later this year with Gary Oldham as Churchill, on the "dark days" of the war when it was a crap shoot as to who would win. Guess which speech was in the trailer?

77 posted on 07/22/2017 10:31:42 AM PDT by ssaftler ("Keep your hands to yourself, leave other people's things alone, and be kind to one another.")
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To: GraceG

You seem to bve proud of your ignorance! Learn some history!


78 posted on 07/22/2017 10:32:24 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Snickering Hound

>Don’t get me started about how the Brits compare El Alamain to Stalingrad in it’s impact on the war...

The victory at El Alamain was more important than Stalingrad. Lose it and Rommel takes Alexandra and the Suez Canal and the oil fields of the middle east. From there they could take Persia and cut the main US Russian supply line and put there Bombers in range of the oil fields of Baku.

Stalingrad bagged a bunch midtier German troops and allies and a really bad German field general. The losses from Tunisia a few months later were much more harmful to Germany in terms of men, weapons, and moral than was Stalingrad.

Stalingrad gets played up far more than it should because of wartime Russian propaganda.


79 posted on 07/22/2017 10:34:06 AM PDT by JohnyBoy
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

The TRUTH IS that without the French defending the Brits, they would not have escaped. Thousands of French were left behind and encircled had to surrender.


80 posted on 07/22/2017 10:34:28 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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