The Auteurs: Live in Paris
Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2000
AS LUKE Haines builds up an ever-expanding oeuvre, replete with cross-references and self-mythologising manifestos, one wonders what the French might make of this superficially haughty (but deep down, impassioned) auteur. Well, they stare at him.
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