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the New Wave filmmakers acknowledged Astruc as a pioneer, his commitment to literary adaptation and formal elegance increasingly placed him at a distance from the movement's rawer, more improvisatory direction after 1959. From the late 1960s, he worked in television, directing adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, and others, as well as the three-hour documentary Sartre par lui-même (1976), an extended filmed interview with his old friend Sartre

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