Director Pierre Rissient has been a film buff since his teenage years in Paris in the 1950s. Starting his 60-year saga as a programmer at the legendary Cinéma Mac-Mahon, followed by stints as an assistant to Jean-Luc Godard, a press agent, producer and more, Rissient’s career can be defined by its ability to defy definition. Above all is his strong eye for unknown talent and ceaseless discovery of artists like Ida Lupino, King Hu, LinoBrocka and Jane Campion—as just a few—honed traveling around the globe and ensuring he finds the time and opportunity to find the world’s best filmmakers and, of course, see their films. In Gentleman Rissient, documentarians Benoît Jacquot, Pascal Mérigeau and Guy Seligmann deconstruct and pay tribute to the so-called “movie man,” and create a genuinely loving testament to cinema by one of its foremost ambassadors. Underpinned by Rissient’s own choices of standout films and cinema moments, the movies’ most singular and admiring emissary reflects on his life, work and—naturally—film. A great salute to a great critic.