Code Name: Melville

Movie · 1h 16m

Starring Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt, Leo Fortel, Pierre Grasset, Laurent Grousset

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.