Abstract
In 2006, Mon colonel was quietly released as part of a wave of Algerian War films. Its plot depends largely on cinematic flashback to deliver missing narrative exposition. However, the flashback proffers more than narrative—it additionally evokes the psychological flashback (repressed unpleasant memories from the past that interrupt the present), a symptom of PTSD. In this manner, the Algerian War of fifty years past resurfaces in the film as a once (collectively) repressed French memory.
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