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Shortlisted for the 2025 American Library in Paris Book Award
"[A] compact, complete, and highly enjoyable book." ?A. S. Hamrah, Bookforum
The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as "one of the Gods of cinema."
Brief description: Carrie Rickey is an award-winning film critic and historian with work in Art in America, the New York Times, Politico, and elsewhere. She has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia.
Review Quotes: I devoured A Complicated Passion happily and so, I suspect, will you.--Dwight Garner "New York Times Book Review"