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Louis Malle: A Camouflaged Legacy

Attempting to trace a pattern in the work of the great French filmmaker Louis Malle is a way to lose your mind. He is associated with the French New Wave, but never went in for all that self-aggrandising swagger. He worked across fiction and nonfiction, wackiness and despair, France and America, genre and arthouse. He worked with gallic icons of yesterday (Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Maurice Ronet), American indie godheads before they were American indie godheads (Julianne

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