Overview
- The film, directed by László Nemes and starring Gilles Lellouche as Jean Moulin, concentrates on the resistor’s last ten days and an intense housebound confrontation with Klaus Barbie.
- Critics widely praise Gilles Lellouche’s performance as restrained and powerful while reviewers are split on Nemes’s austere 35 mm cinematography and dense sound design that force a visceral viewer experience.
- Many reviews highlight the film’s explicit physical and psychological torture scenes and question whether those scenes serve historical understanding or verge on spectacle.
- Several critics note that the lengthy, central conversation between Moulin and Barbie is dramatized and not historically documented, raising concerns about artistic license when dealing with real wartime trauma.
- Produced as a commissioned project by Alain Goldman and backed by TF1, Moulin screened in competition at Cannes without winning prizes and is set to open in French cinemas on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, a release that is expected to amplify public debate about memory and representation.