Viola Spolin

Après l'immense succès de son premier film, un jeune réalisateur se retrouve coincé entre art et marketing : il désire faire un film qui prête matière à réflexion, tandis que le studio aimerait quelque chose de simple qui soit certain de rapporter de l'argent.

GOLDSTEIN, the feature film debut of talented director Philip Kaufman, is an early example of American independent filmmaking from the early 1960s. A fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters, the film is a funny, warm-hearted postcard from an important moment in American cinema. GOLDSTEIN, starring veteran character actor Lou Gilbert, shared the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival with Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution. Cinema deity Jean Renoir called the film "the best American film I have seen in 20 years."