Quand la France surveillait les écrans belges : la réception en Belgique des "Sentiers de la gloire" de Stanley Kubrick ; When France kept an eye on Belgian screens: the reception in Belgium of Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory”.

peer reviewed ; Through the well-known drama of soldiers shot as a warning to others, "Paths of Glory" seemed an angry denunciation of the French army, in spite of Kubrick’s statement that his real aim was any form of militarism. Issued in 1958, the film was not distributed in France, then in the midst of the Algerian conflict. Through pressures, demonstrations and threats, some Frenchmen and French sympathizers tried – in vain – to extend the ban to Liege and Brussels screens. They provoked in turn vigorous reactions, which extended far outside the traditional antimilitarist circles. French-s... Mehr ...