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November 22, 2021 125 mins

We return for a look at the life and work of Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973), a beloved French director, screenwriter, and occasional actor who helmed the classics Le Silence de la Mer, Les Enfants Terribles, Leon Morin - Pretre, Le Doulos, and Le Samourai. After serving in the French Resistance during World War II, Melville returned to his native Paris to live out his dream of making films and was the only French filmmaker of his era to own his own studio. A cinephile with encyclopedic knowledge and an undying love of American film noir, Melville created a singular, intimate Paris underworld of cops and crooks, all while developing a style that became a forebear of the French New Wave. Kisses many.

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