Who does that for anyone?
Adam Shatz: Jean-Pierre Melville, 20 June 2019
Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Solitaire
by Bertrand Teissier.
Fayard, 272 pp., €22, October 2017,978 2 213 70573 6 Show More
by Bertrand Teissier.
Fayard, 272 pp., €22, October 2017,
Jean-Pierre Melville, une vie
by Antoine de Baecque.
Seuil, 244 pp., €32, October 2017,978 2 02 137107 9 Show More
by Antoine de Baecque.
Seuil, 244 pp., €32, October 2017,
“... was his uncle Arthur, an antiques dealer friendly with Maurice Chevalier and Josephine Baker. Arthur introduced him to the circus, then to nightclubs and music halls. As de Baecque points out, Melville’s gangster films invariably include a ‘fetish’ scene in a cabaret, a place set deep in ‘the heart of Jean-Pierre Grumbach’s native ... ”