Wearing a helmet made of steel sheets covered with trench mud, Omar Sy, obsessed with the need to protect his son there, crosses the “Teraeleurs”, by Matthew Vadipid, as a tragic hero blown by the winds of history. The Great White War. He brings with him the sense of injustice that prevailed in the French army, a breath of bitter deprivation of liberty, and the Fulani language he uses in the film to assert his alleged identity. The film conveys the shame of this episode, which saw “dark power” thrown onto the battlefield: of the AOF’s 200,000 Senegalese conscripts (often in schlague) who fought under the French flag, 30,000 died in the hells of Verdun and the Marne. The only reminder of this sacrifice is bitter: it is the laughing belligerent “Y’a bon Banania!” “… Omar Sy, 44, who now lives in the US, is a star: from his debut with Fred on Canal + to the Netflix series “Lupin”, through the stunning success of “Intouchables”, an international career, actor, Producer, comedian, sometimes director. In life and on screen, he exudes a precious quality: sincerity. No cynicism, only decency on edge: Omar Sy is, above all, complete. That has earned him, three times, being elected ‘the character’ French favourite.
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