‘Nobody would forgive me if I told the truth’: new film about pacifist turned Nazi collaborator divides France In Les Rayons et les Ombres, Jean Dujardin plays a real-life press baron partying during the horrors of the second world war. Director Xavier Giannoli discusses bringing this still sensitive topic to ...

“Despite its daunting three-hour-plus running time, #RaysAndShadows has already drawn more 300,000 spectators to French cinemas in its mid-March opening week alone. But it has also sparked a heated debate over the #Vichy period.