Book: “Out of My Father’s Shadow”

Description

Though born in America, Eddie Constantine is perhaps best remembered as a film actor in France and Germany, playing the role of a hardboiled detective named ‘Lemmy Caution’ and appearing in films by Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Lars von Trier. Eddie’s unruffled charm, winning smile, and American credentials made him virtually untouchable. Europeans liked Constantine because he wasn’t a pretty face – he had savoir faire. Constantine’s daughter Tanya traveled with him throughout much of his career, and this book comes from her perspective of their troubled familial relationship.