‘Moulin’ Review: Gilles Lellouche Earns His Stripes In László Nemes’ Tenebrous Wartime Tale Of Bravery And Resistance – Cannes Film Festival
After two period movies dealing very specifically with the history of Hungary, László Nemes returns to the subject matter than brought him an Oscar for his debut feature Son of Saul (2015) — the Second World War. Set roughly a year before its predecessor, Moulin tells the true story of Jean Moulin, the head of the French Resistance movement who posed as a civil servant by day. Like Son of Saul, however, Moulin is not interested in the bigger picture. Although the opening credits suggest an epic along the lines of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (1969), or even Vincente Minnelli’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), Moulin is concerned only with events leading up to its hero’s death at the hands of Klaus Barbie and his sadistic Gestapo in 1943.
Son of Saul was a tight, confined, claustrophobic coup de cinema, shot by Mátyás Erdély in an edgy style that
