Code Name: Melville (2010)

6.7/10 76 min Documentary

Overview

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

Pierre Grasset

Self

Rémy Grumbach

Self

Masahiro Kobayashi

Self

André S. Labarthe

Self

Philippe Labro

Self

Volker Schlöndorff

Self

Bertrand Tavernier

Self

Johnnie To

Self

François Chalais

Self (archive footage)

Jacques Chancel

Self (archive footage) (voice)

Alain Delon

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Melville

Self (archive footage)

Paul Meurisse

Self (archive footage)

Lino Ventura

Self (archive footage)

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