J'Accuse - is Polanski's latest film about the Dreyfus case or the creator himself?

by Leo Bankersen
13 April 202030 March 2022
8 min read
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Het is 1895. Kolonel Georges Picquart (Jean Dujardin) is zojuist tot zijn eigen verrassing gepromoveerd tot hoofd van de inlichtingendienst van het Franse leger. Om daar letterlijk en figuurlijk de rioollucht te verdrijven rukt hij in het muffe kantoor verwoed aan het raam. Het gaat niet open.
Een raak beeld in J'Accuse, een van de meest besproken films van dit moment. Deze reconstructie van de destijds valselijk van spionage beschuldigde Franse legerkapitein Alfred Dreyfus is het middelpunt van...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

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