This 23-minute documentary covers a lot of fascinating ground on the friendship between director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Alain Delon. Delon was one of the few people outside of Melville's family that Melville was close with: It was a kind of father-son relationship in which both men not only had a sense of honor, but also had a love for life, the night, and the United States. Moreover, we also learn that Melville was a behaviorist who worked from the outside in, Delon once described himself as a giant among dwarves, Melville knew real-life mobsters and how to properly handle a gun, and that Melville's sudden death from a heart attack was a devastating blow to Delon. In addition, one person interviewed astutely points out that with Melville's movies it's not the story so much how said story is told that makes all the difference. An illuminating portrait of two very distinctive men.
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