Son of Saul

From a legend to history, next we're turning to a major figure in French history, Jean Moulin, one of the heroes of the French Resistance during World War II.

Moulin is the latest film from Hungarian director László Nemes, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film lang- Foreign Language Film with Son of Saul, but this film focuses on a specific part of his history, doesn't it?

Yes, Jean Moulin is a national hero here in France.

There are streets, schools, and monuments named after him all over the country.

And in June '43, he was arrested near Lyon and interrogated by Klaus Barbie, the head of the local Gestapo.

And the film focuses on Moulin's final days in captivity, turning this confrontation into a psychological battle between the two men.

And Niemes had already explored the horrors of the Holocaust in Son of Saul, and here he approaches history through a very intimate and suffocating perspective once again.

And it's also a very personal project for him, because he moved to France in the '90s, and he sees the film as a tribute to the country.

Laszlo Nemes will direct Sickert, a historical thriller series centered on a Jack the Ripper suspect.

Laszlo Nemes, the director of Son of Saul, is attached to direct and co-write a limited thriller series called Sickert, drawing on events in London during 1888.

Details emerged through a broadcast outlet on Wednesday.

The series centers on a painter moving between London's art salons and the working-class neighborhoods where his subjects lived, a world adjacent to the communities where the Jack the Ripper murders were taking place.

Each canvas shows a clothed man at the edge of a bed beside a reclining nude woman, her stillness explained only by the titles sickered attached to the works.

It is his painted work, rather than any 1888 police record, that has kept his name in public memory.

Nemes received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Son of Saul, which had already claimed the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2015.

Two period dramas, Sunset and Orphan, followed.