The book is a biography, too. You detect a manifest liking for Paul Driessen as a person, both in the authors' text and (obviously) in the declarations of associates and colleagues elegantly scattered around the pages. Luckily, this doesn't imply a fan-club taste and you feel there is a refreshing respect both for the film-maker and for the readers.

What else? A wealth of illustrations in black & white and color, which will especially please the visual artists, a filmography (by Nico Crama), a glossary and a bibliography. If you want me to split hairs, I'll say that I would have loved an index and maybe a photograph of Paul Driessen himself... But never mind.

Paul Driessen — Beelden en bespiegelingen / Images et reflections / Images and Reflections by Marc Glassman and Ton Gloudemans. Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands), Centre International du Cinéma d'animation (Annecy, France), 2002. In Dutch, French and English. 239 pages. ISBN: 90-802264-6-7.

Giannalberto Bendazzi is an animation historian whose latest book is Alexeieff - The Itinerary of a Master.