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  "path": "/issues/2026-5-30/the-eternal-child",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  The filmmaker at work, in a still from _Louis Malle, le Révolté._\n\n##### A new documentary sheds fresh light on Louis Malle, the _nouvelle vague_ contemporary whose films tackled complicated subjects with innocence and curiosity\n\nBy Joan Juliet Buck\n\nLouis Malle, one of the most talented and controversial film directors of the 20th century, was drawn to taboos as surely as kids are drawn to flames and trouble. Though a contemporary of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, he never wasted a moment being a critic, and was therefore not considered a member of the _nouvelle vague._ His wealthy Northern French family’s fortune was founded on sugar beets; even today, their beautifully packaged, fancy La Perruche sugar cubes look hand-cut. His parents were not pleased that their brilliant youngest son wanted to become a film director instead of running the family business, so to placate them, Malle enrolled at the Paris institute of advanced cinematographic studies, known as l’ READ ON",
  "title": "The Eternal Child"
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