Moulin review – László Nemes’s resistance hero drama is chilling, stirring and surprisingly conventional

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Moulin review – László Nemes’s resistance hero drama is chilling, stirring and surprisingly conventional, Cannes film festival: The Son of Saul director’s dramatisation of Jean Moulin’s torture by Klaus Barbie both benefits and suffers from its mainstream approach László Nemes made his Cannes debut 11 years ago with the terrifying, Oscar-winning Holocaust drama Son of Saul , and followed that up with Sunset , his elegant, mysterious drama of pre-first world war Budapest. His next film, Orphan , released in the UK last week, was a comparably enigmatic film set in post-second world war Hungary. But his new film in the Cannes competition is a basically pretty conventionally acted, conventionally directed, conventionally conceived wartime movie shot in the sepia-subdued colours of an old photograph, all about French resistance heroism and French resistance leader Jean Moulin, who went down in history for refusing to talk under torture. The overall effect isn’t really like Jean-Pierre Melville’s

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