Christopher Nolan’s war epic, which has a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is performing above expectations in the US this weekend, has been lambasted by a prominent journalist in France.
Writing in Le Monde, Jacques Mandelbaum accused the movie of largely ignoring the French involvement in the infamous battle, which resulted in tens of thousands upon thousands of fatalities.
Mandelbaum called Nolan “witheringly impolite” for the story told in the drama.
“A dozen seconds devoted to a group of French soldiers defending the city who were not very friendly and a few more to a French soldier disguised as British in order to try to flee the massacre?” he wrote.
“That does not account for the indispensable French involvement to this crazy evacuation.
“No one can deny a director’s right to focus his point of view on what he sees fit, as long as it does not deny the reality of which it claims to represent.
“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?”
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