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Two Forgotten Boxes (2020)

Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra, Cécilia Mangini was a photographer. Taking pictures was something she did all her life, alongside whatever else she was working on. In 1965 Mangini and Del Fra went to war-torn Vietnam to make a film they never finished. More than half a century later, she returned to these images, moving and still, some of which she found again by accident.

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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Cecilia ManginiCecilia ManginiSelf
  • Photo of Camille GendreauCamille Gendreau
  • Photo of Stéphane BatutStéphane Batut(voice)

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