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Film the French keeping distance from film (8)

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I believe the answer is:

pellicle

'film' is the definition.
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'film the french keeping distance' is the wordplay.
'film' becomes 'pic' (abbreviation for picture).
'the french' becomes 'le'.
'keeping' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'distance' becomes 'ell' (I've seen this before).
'pic'+'le'='picle'
'picle' enclosing 'ell' is 'PELLICLE'.

'from' acts as a link.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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