Winner of Locarno’s Signs of Life section, Benjamin Crotty’s “The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin” has enjoyed more than 12 months of festival success and critical acclaim as it reaches the end of its festival run at UniFrance’s MyFrenchFilmFestival.
A modern take on one of France’s most influential yet widely unknown characters, the film headlines Nicolas Chauvin, a farmer-turned-soldier in Napoleon’s First Army of the French Republic. Although some sources claim the 17-times injured in defense of France Chauvin was a real person, it’s now commonly accepted that he was an invention meant to represent nationalistic values prominent among soldiers at the time. Today he is best recognized as the namesake of chauvinism, and seen as a cautionary character regarding the dangers of nationalism, sexism, racism and other extreme points of view.
In just over a decade of filmmaking, Crotty has twice been awarded at...
A modern take on one of France’s most influential yet widely unknown characters, the film headlines Nicolas Chauvin, a farmer-turned-soldier in Napoleon’s First Army of the French Republic. Although some sources claim the 17-times injured in defense of France Chauvin was a real person, it’s now commonly accepted that he was an invention meant to represent nationalistic values prominent among soldiers at the time. Today he is best recognized as the namesake of chauvinism, and seen as a cautionary character regarding the dangers of nationalism, sexism, racism and other extreme points of view.
In just over a decade of filmmaking, Crotty has twice been awarded at...
- 1/18/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety - Film News
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