A finely-tuned, sensitive look at the leader, wartime and after, of France enduring its worst hours. The story's been told, and the beautiful scenery captured by others, but this film takes us inside the most impenetrable part of the era - who was De Gaulle, how did one abandoned man find the strength to do what he did, for France, for Europe, & had the Nazis won speaking broadly for the World. De Gaulle as enigma is all that we get usually, in-caricature, as an object of fun, the grandeur. But this film dives insides him, opens up who he was and how he felt. A sympathetic picture, someone at last showing us Le grand Charles as a human being.
