The secret and wonderful sadness of Billy Wilder

Jonathan Coe discovers in ‘Mr. Wilder and I’ the background of melancholy in the work of the most ingenious filmmaker of the 20th century

Billy Wilder, in Greece, during the filming of ‘Fedora’.GETTY

Updated Saturday, January 22, 2022 –
11:57

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In the pages of Mr Wilder and I, by Jonathan Coe, features Al Pacino, Scorsese, Spielberg, Mel Brooks and Monty Python, Fassbinder (all viewed with irony), Lubitsch, Henry Fonda (both highly praised), as well as Billy Wilder, who names

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