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Le grand Méliès

Judex • 31m

Directed by Georges Franju • 1952 • France

This 1952 short by Georges Franju is a biographical film about the cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès. It features Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son, André, as his father. LE GRAND MÉLIÈS, like Franju’s Louis Feuillade tribute, JUDEX, is a revealing homage to one of the director’s idols.

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