It’s a shame that Algerian/French filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb’s films don’t get a wider release in the U.S. His 2006 film Days of Glory (Indigènes), about the North African soldiers who fought for the French Army during World War II is a marvelous, exciting and at the end genuinely poignant film that I wish more people had seen if it only gotten a proper release in the U.S. It’s the film that I wish Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna would have been.
And his 2010 film Outside the Law, about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII, is just as good and as powerful as Days of Glory and like that film was also barely released in the U.S.
So it’s…
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