A marketing line any movie would enjoy

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It’s almost Oscar time, which for the lucky few means a license to print vast constellations of bolded stars alongside BEST whatever in their ads. One entry for best foreign language film comes hyped with its own money shot: Days of Glory, aka Indigènes. Rachid Bouchareb’s war pic about Africans fighting for France against the Nazis gets to gloat that it made French president Jacques Chirac chuck a half-century-old policy of bilking “native” veterans of their pensions.

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