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One film by this director ends with a dissolve from a man in swim trunks to that man wearing a suit and walking on water. In a different film by this director, a street peddler pulls a woman through a window onto the floor of a dance hall, before the woman’s husband pushes the peddler through another window. This director’s use of underwater shots for a documentary about French champion (-5[1])swimmer Jean Taris inspired a sequence (15[1])in a later film by this director where a man jumps into a river; that sequence (*) superimposes pictures (10[1])of a woman clad in white, referencing a folk tale where one sees their true love’s face (-5[1])while underwater. That film by this director (10[1])begins with the small town wedding of its central characters before they join Père Jules on his barge. For 10 points, name this French director who died of tuberculosis at 29, shortly after finishing his only feature, L’Atalante. (10[2])■END■

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