De Gaulle: Resistance is a bit over two and a half hours long.  I had braced myself for this and laid in supplies of coffee and lollies to prevent the dreaded afternoon sleepies which so often plague me at the cinema, but this mix of wartime and personal drama was so engaging and exciting that when the film ended I was still wide awake and a bit surprised that it was over already.

‘…ridiculously skinny scowling models teeter and swagger on dangerously high heels in bikinis and filmy body suits, one topped by a stupid outsize furry hat, another clad in what looks like a cross between a puffer suit and a decompression chamber.’