| Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis
Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic
storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces
as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les
enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating
a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker.
With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills
of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris
to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing
epic Phantom India. These are some of the most engaging and fascinating
nonfiction films ever made. |