(2025, France, 65')
A documentary on the extraordinary filmmaking career of Louis Malle, a French filmmaker from an upper-class background who used cinema to dismantle the sick and hypocritical paradigms of the wealthy elite. Though he began within the Nouvelle Vague, he soon diverged to pursue a more personal directorial path. Even within the Hollywood system (take Atlantic City, which won him the Golden Lion in Venice in 1980) he maintained a harsh, unsentimental worldview, expressed via a dry, understated style.