HELLO LOUIS
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Time to rediscover the work of movie director Louis Malle. If the French Nouvelle Vague was a family, Malle would have been a distant cousin, more interested in running his own adventures than following in the footsteps of the Politiques des Auteurs. A magnificent story-teller, LM is also a great documentarist (if the word exists in English!). He directed some very fresh documentaries on various subjects; the Mystery of India, the Ethos and Mythology of the Tour de France and of course his famous World of Silence which depicted the life of Commandant Cousteau and his crew but was more of an ode to Malle's love of the sea.
There is something uterly seductive and provocative in his films. Something Jean-Claude Carriere have described has the work of an Enlightened Child.
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