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The Documentaries of Louis Malle

The Documentaries of Louis Malle. Louis Malle, 1962-1986.

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Edition screened: Criterion Eclipse Series #02 DVD set, released 2007. Mostly French language with English subtitles. Cumulative runtime approximately 817 minutes.


Summary: Phantom India and Calcutta include comparatively innocuous images of a scavengers eating a cow’s body and a dead rat, respectively. God’s Country show the unnatural ghoulishness of a bacon processing plant, the psychological commonality between God’s people and Country people.


This 2nd volume in Criterion’s Eclipse Series includes:


Vive le tour (1962)

Humain, trop humain (1974)

Place de la République (1974)

Phantom India (1969)

Calcutta (1969)

God's Country (1985)

. . . and the Pursuit of Happiness (1986)