The Criterion Collection has released a clip from a brand new video interview with film professor Ginette Vincendeau, which is included on the new Blu-ray release of Jean-Pierre Melville's first film, Le Silence de la Mer.
You can see our listing and review of this release here.
Official synopsis: Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece; their response to his presence—their only form of resistance—is complete silence. Constructed with elegant minimalism and shot, by the legendary Henri Decaë, with hushed eloquence, Le silence de la Mer points the way toward Melville's later films about resistance and the occupation (Léon Morin, Priest, Army of Shadows).