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Australian Arts

A deadly sweetness

7 June 2025

9:00 AM

7 June 2025

9:00 AM

One of the greatest documentary filmmakers who ever lived died last week at the age of 97. He is the man who made The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) which is the four-and-a-half-hour account of what old-timers born before the second world war refer to as the Fall of France.

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