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,
“... though he flirted with the idea of writing a novel about the battles inside the Resistance. When Bertrand Tavernier, who worked as his assistant on Léon Morin, prêtre (1961), asked him what he did during the war, Melville said he’d ‘gone to England so he could see The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp’. He was so cagy that some of his closest ... ”
