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Ginette Vincendeau on LE SILENCE DE LA MER

Le silence de la mer • 17m

In this interview, conducted in November 2014, film professor Ginette Vincendeau, author of “Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris,” discusses Melville’s remarkable film debut.

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