Photography is truth and cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

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Photography is truth and cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

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La photographie c’est la vérité. Et le cinéma c’est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.

Bruno Forestier

Le Petit Soldat · 1963

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Le petit soldat [The Little Soldier]. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, 1963.

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