We discuss:

Algeria’s War of Independence

Willful forgetting and the obligation to remember colonial history

The reality of France's (post)colonial impact

Personal and collective guilt and intentional amnesia

Inter-generational trauma

Themes of personal, national, and multi-national guilt

The obligation to confront the harms of history, even when they implicate one’s own family

The massacre of French Algerians on October 17, 1961, led by Maurice Papon

The reality of France, and especially Paris, as a divided place

Maurice Bénichou’s performance in relation to the star power of Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche

How we individually and collectively respond to the painful ripples of history

W. H. Auden’s poem, “Musée des Beaux Arts”

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