Guillaume Schiffman, the order - and concept - of merit By Ariane Damain-Vergallo for Leitz Cine Weltzar
In 2017, the Ministry of Culture offered cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman to honor him by making him “Knight of the National Order of Merit.” Being offered that so-evocatively named reward pleased the man no end... but he never finished filling the proper documents and never went to fetch it.