Exhibition: Joseph Losey, the alchemist of the seventh art

Everyone thinks he's English.

, who appears in the dining room, is not for nothing in this mistake.

Joseph Losey was an American from Wisconsin.

He loved jazz and was blacklisted.

McCarthyism pushed him into exile in London.

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If the beginnings in his adopted country were not so simple, the filmmaker did not take long to make his mark there.

The proof by nine with this

taken from a novel by LP Hartley and which obtained the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1971. More British, one does not do.

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Around 1900, young Leo was invited to the country to stay with a college friend.

Summer is hot.

The teenager, who is about to celebrate his 13th birthday, obviously belongs to an inferior environment to that of his hosts.

In this mansion, everything seems unusual to him.

The codes that reign there are not exactly his.

All these rituals, these teas on the lawn, this two-way humor, these dinners at fixed times and in full dress.

Her costume is too hot for the season.

We can guess that this is the only one ...

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