Word: grumbach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flambeur seems wonderfully ancient because it is. The film was made back in 1955, which means Lindbergh, Le Car and Yoplait had an easier time getting across the Atlantic. The director and co-screenwriter Jean-Pierre Melville (who died in 1973) was born Grumbach, but his passion for America led him to change his name in honor of the great American author...
...French cineastes noted that two things they admired, American genre movies and existential philosophy, had one thing in common: an admiration for the heroic figure who defined himself and his code of personal honor by plain action rather than fancy words. Writer-Director Melville (who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, borrowed his nom de screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world of official French cinema. To scrape up the financing for Bob, Melville had to be a kind of existential hero himself. It says something about...