"Colette"

Alice Doyard tells France 24 the circumstances of the birth of this film, the meeting with Colette and Lucie, a 17-year-old apprentice historian who accompanied the resistant to Germany.

The film was originally designed to give historical context to the video game "Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond", released in late 2020. But the studio realized the cinematic value and aesthetic of the work and pushed the project forward. further.

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"The Disciple"

 by Chaitanya Tamhane tells the story of Sharad, a young man who hopes to become a virtuoso of traditional Indian song.

Despite his best efforts, he must resolve himself and accept the idea that he will never be the best.

This film about accepting failure received the Screenplay Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Finally,

"In Cold Blood" 

by Richard Brooks is released in a remastered version.

The 1967 film is an adaptation of the founding non-fictional novel by Truman Capote and chronicles a gruesome American crime of the late 1950s, when two freshly freed convicts execute an entire family in Missouri for loot. of 40 dollars.

The affair had fascinated the whole of America and inspired Truman Capote's novel "In cold blood: a true story of a multiple murder and its consequences", published in 1966.

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