- Studio: Leisure Time Features
- Release Date: Oct 12, 2005
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- Summary: This documentary chronicles the life, times, and passions of the legendary film archivist.
- Director: Jacques Richard
- Genre(s): Biography, History, Documentary
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88Includes insightful and often hilarious archival interviews with Langlois and dozens of associates, as well as wonderful footage of Langlois.
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88At a little over two hours, there's a lot of Langlois to digest. But cinephiles won't mind a bit: Richard includes tons of great anecdotes and clips from classic films that wouldn't exist if Langlois hadn't saved them.
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80While the astonishing street footage of "l'affaire Langlois"--perhaps more familiar to the French than to us--is where this exhaustive talking-heads portrait becomes beautifully, bafflingly surreal, the whole project, however conventional, has the allure of a communal embrace, a home movie of a motherland left irrevocably in the past.
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jeannen.9Superb, compelling. Answered so many questions for me and revealed to me the intensity of the french love for film.
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