Melville, the Last Samourai

Approaching the 50th anniversary of the cult movie Le Cercle rouge in 2020, this documentary relates the life of a French lm director who has become iconic. Master of the Polar, father of the French New Wave, Jean-Pierre Melville appears today as a visionary of whom some of the greatest directors from Hollywood or Asia, claim to be. Film extracts, private archives and backstage footage make up a story where reality and action intertwine and merge, as the filmmaker’s work is haunted by the existence of the man. A scenario of which he will finally be the one and only true hero. With: Volker Schlöndorff, Taylor Hackford, Alain Delon, and Rémi Grumbach.