Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch [ ˈklod ləˈluʃ ] (born October 30, 1937 in Paris ) is a French film director , cameraman , screenwriter , producer and actor . His trademark are emphatically aesthetic camera settings.
Life
Lelouch is the son of a Jewish bespoke tailor who immigrated from Algeria and who returned to Algeria when the Second World War broke out. After the war he attended the Collège Sainte-Barbe , which he left without a degree. He described himself as a "cinema journalist" when he made his first short documentaries in the mid-1950s. At the end of the 1950s, he toured the USA and the USSR, cut several documentaries from the material and sold them to television.
In 1960 he founded the production company "Les Films 13", with which he made over 200 scopitones - short music films for use in jukeboxes . In the same year he shot the first of his numerous feature films, in which he mostly told stories of love, farewells and disappointments; Called old-fashioned romances by some , other critics saw subtextual meanings in his mostly simple, warm-hearted stories.
His first international success, for which he received the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1967 , was the film A Man and a Woman . He received a second nomination for best director and he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 . He received another Oscar nomination in the screenplay category in 1975 for the film A Lifetime .
Lelouch was married three times, most recently to the Italian film actress Alessandra Martines , from whom he separated in 2008. He has seven children.
Theft of bags with script
On January 13, 2018, the newspaper Le Parisien reported that several bags were stolen while unloading from the car on his return vacation. Not only were the notes that had been accumulated in “magical suitcases” lost for decades, but also the only copy of the script for the planned film “Oui et Non”. The director “waits for a miracle” and hopes for a return.
Filmography
- 1962: The manhunt (L'amour avec des si)
- 1964: The girl and the gangsters (Une fille et des fusils)
- 1966: A man and a woman (Un homme et une femme)
- 1967: Live the life (Vivre pour vivre)
- 1968: Blue Gauloises (Les Gauloises bleues)
- 1968: Life, Love and Death (La vie, l'amour, la mort)
- 1969: The man I like (Un homme qui me plaît)
- 1970: The crook (Le voyou)
- 1971: Smic, smac, smoc - The three from the dry dock (Smic, smac, smoc)
- 1971: The kidnappers send their regards (L'aventure, c'est l'aventure)
- 1973: a happy year (La bonne année)
- 1973: Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympiad (Visions of Eight) (Co-Director)
- 1974: For a lifetime (Toute une vie)
- 1974: Marriage (Mariage)
- 1975: A cat chases the mouse (Le chat et la souris)
- 1976: The good and the bad (Le bon et les méchants)
- 1976: A touch of tenderness (Si c'était à refaire)
- 1976: C'était un rendez-vous (C'était un rendez-vous) (short film)
- 1977: Another man - another woman (Un autre homme, une autre chance)
- 1978: A man seeks a woman (Robert et Robert)
- 1979: Alone for two (À nous deux)
- 1981: Everyone will receive his reward ... (Les uns et les autres)
- 1983: Edith and Marcel (Edith et Marcel)
- 1984: go away and come back (partir, revenir)
- 1984: Long live life (Viva la vie)
- 1985: A man and a woman - 20 years later (Un homme et une femme: 20 ans déjà)
- 1987: The time of crime (Attention bandits!)
- 1988: The Lion (Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté)
- 1990: So are the days and the moon (Il ya des jours… et des lunes)
- 1991: The most beautiful story in the world (La belle histoire)
- 1993: Everything for love (Tout ça… pour ça)
- 1995: Les Misérables (Les misérables du vingtième siècle)
- 1996: Men and women, instructions for use (Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi)
- 1998: One for all (Une pour toutes)
- 1998: Meeting in Venice (Hasards ou coincidences)
- 2002: 11'09 "01 - September 11 (2nd episode director)
- 2002: And Now… Ladies & Gentlemen (And Now… Ladies and Gentlemen)
- 2007: Roman de gare
- 2010: Ces amours-là
- 2011: D'un film à l'autre (documentary)
- 2014: Salaud, on t'aime
- 2017: Chacun sa vie
- 2018: Call My Agent! ( Dix pour cent , TV series, one episode)
- 2019: the best years of a life ( Les plus belles années d'une vie )
- 2019: La vertu des impondérables
Awards (selection)
- 1966: Golden Palm and Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for A Man and a Woman
- 1996: Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Language Film category for Les Misérables
Bibliography (selection)
- 2000: Claude Lelouch and Jean-Philippe Chatrier: Itinéraire d'un enfant très gâté, Robert Laffont, Coll. «Vécu».
- 2008: Claude Lelouch, Claude Baignères and Sylvie Perez: Ces années-là, Fayard. Conversations with Claude Baignères and Sylvie Perez
- 2005: Yves Alion, Jean Ollé-Laprune: Claude Lelouch: Mode d'emploi, Calmann-Lévy.
Web links
- Claude Lelouch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official homepage of Claude Lelouch
- “The Paris Night” A tribute to Claude Lelouch, Francois Truffaut and cinema
- Pronunciation of Claude Lelouch on Forvo.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Time Encyclopedia, Volume 8, page 575, ISBN 3-411-17568-0
- ↑ Hans Michael Bock: Lexicon directors and cameramen from A – Z , rororo, Reinbek 1999, p. 283
- ↑ The only script for the new Lelouch film stolen orf.at, January 14, 2018, accessed January 14, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lelouch, Claude |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film director, cameraman, screenwriter, producer and actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |