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Code Name: Melville
Film / 2010

Code Name: Melville

Directed by Olivier Bohler
Documentary

★ 6.7/10Audience rating

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.

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Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.

Cast

Michel Dreyfus-SchmidtSelf Leo FortelSelf Pierre GrassetSelf Laurent GroussetSelf Rémy GrumbachSelf Masahiro KobayashiSelf André S. LabartheSelf Philippe LabroSelf Jean-Jacques NatafSelf Rui NogueiraSelf Volker SchlöndorffSelf Bertrand TavernierSelf
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Johnnie ToSelf François ChalaisSelf (archive footage) Jacques ChancelSelf (archive footage) (voice) Alain DelonSelf (archive footage) Jean-Pierre MelvilleSelf (archive footage) Paul MeurisseSelf (archive footage) Lino VenturaSelf (archive footage)

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