François de Lamothe

François de Lamothe (born May 9, 1928 in Meaux , France , † November 3, 2011 in Paris ) was a French film architect .

Life

De Lamothe was, alongside Jacques Saulnier and Bernard Evein , one of the most important and sought-after production designers in French entertainment cinema of his generation. In Paris he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and received his cinematic skills at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques . De Lamothe gained practical experience as an assistant to the film architects Max Douy and Serge Pimenoff . In addition to the cinema, his field of work also included theater and television.

De Lamothes first activity for the film was in 1954 the sketch for White Slaves for Tangier (Les impures), 1957/58 he worked regularly as assistant set designer for the film: White Freight from Paris (Cargaison blanche), The Twins and the Murderer (Les trois font la paire), The sixth man (Tous peuvent me tuer) and Life for two (La vie à deux). As chief architect since 1958, François de Lamothe was soon preferred for the films of the comedy specialists Philippe de Broca and Édouard Molinaro . But he also designed often the decorations to dramatic fabrics, including mysteries about cynical heroes and lonely anti-hero who, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville ( Le Samouraï ), Julien Duvivier ( rest house of the devil ) and again Jacques Deray emerged . The director Robert Hossein , who became well known as an actor, also used de Lamothes skills.

François de Lamothe's best work includes films with historical references and literary adaptations , including Roger Vadim's Der Reigen , Bud Yorkin's The French Revolution Did n't Happen , Dominique Delouche's 24 Hours of the Life of a Woman, and Peter Glenville's Hotel Paradiso . In these productions, he revived the worlds of the Belle Epoque and Romanticism with great attention to detail . De facto, all the top stars of French cinema from the 1960s to the 1980s moved in his decorations, including Louis de Funès , Jean-Paul Belmondo , Alain Delon and Lino Ventura .

Filmography

• 1958: The night and its price ( Cette nuit-là )
• 1960: Pierrot la tendresse
• 1961: The Three Truths ( Le Puits aux trois vérités )
• 1961: Cartouche, the Bandit ( Cartouche )
• 1962: The Devil and the Ten Commandments ( Le Diable et les dix commandements )
• 1962: Prettier than the police allow ( Comment réussir en amour )
• 1963: The Devil's Rest House ( Chair de poule )
• 1963: Cursed and Forgotten ( La Mort d'un tueur )
• 1964: The Round Dance ( La Ronde )
• 1964: The Hunt for Men ( La Chasse à l'homme )
• 1964: Oscar's screw is loose ( Une souris chez les hommes )
• 1964: The man whose name was Peter Kürten ( Le Vampire de Dusseldorf )
• 1965: The great adventures of Monsieur L. ( Les Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine )
• 1965: Hotel Paradiso ( Hotel Paradiso )
• 1966: King of Hearts ( Le Roi de Coeur )
• 1967: The Comedians ( The Comedians )
• 1967: The Ice Cold Angel ( Le Samouraï )
• 1967: 24 hours from the life of a woman ( 24 heures de la vie d'une femme )
• 1968: The French Revolution did not take place ( Start the Revolution Without Me )
• 1969: Uncle Paul, the great plum ( Hibernatus )
• 1969: My Uncle Benjamin ( Mon oncle Benjamin )
• 1969: Borsalino
• 1970: Madly
• 1970: Sortie de secours
• 1971: La Mandarine
• 1972: My father's mistress ( Le Remparts des béguines )
• 1973: The felt louse ( L'Emmerdeur )
• 1973: Le Magnifique - I am the greatest ( Le Magnifique )
• 1973: The Sparrow of Paris - Edith Piaf ( Piaf )
• 1973: For a lifetime ( Toute une vie )
• 1974: Borsalino & Co. ( Borsalino and Co. )
• 1974: Marriage ( Mariage )
• 1975: The kitten ( Le Téléphone rose )
• 1975: Catherine & Co. ( Catherine et cie .)
• 1976: Emanuela - Garden of Love ( Emmanuelle 2 )
• 1976: Tame me, love me ( Julie, pot-de-colle )
• 1977: Goodbye Emmanuelle ( Goodbye Emmanuelle )
• 1977: A Crazy Chicken ( Tendre poulet )
• 1978: Murder in Barcelona ( Un papillon sur l'épaule )
• 1978: Ich liebe dich - I Love You - Je t'aime ( A Little Romance )
• 1978: The brothel on Rue Provence (One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence)
• 1980: Sunday Lovers ( Les Séducteurs )
• 1982: The Legion of the Damned ( Les Misérables )
• 1982: The Bush Pilot ( L'Africain )
• 1983: Le bon Plaisir - A political love affair ( Le Bon Plaisir )
• 1983: A class girl ( Just the Way You Are )
• 1985: La gitane - Nothing but trouble with women ( La Gitane )
• 1985: Murderous Angel ( On ne meurt que deux fois )
• 1987: Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (TV three-part)
• 1989: Dark Passion ( Les Bois noirs )
• 1989: Sheherazade - With 1001 HP into adventure ( Les 1001 nuits )
• 1990: Return of the Dead ( Netchaïev est de retour )
• 1992: Le Souper
• 1993: The teddy bear ( L'Ours en peluche )
• 1994: Jardin des Plantes
• 1997: The Man in the Iron Mask ( The Man in the Iron Mask )
• 2003: Le Squat (TV)
• 2005: how much do you love me? ( Combien tu m'aimes? )
• 2009: Ma femme est folle (TV)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 553.

Web links

• François de Lamothe in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adieu à François de Lamothe obituary on lefigaro.fr . Retrieved November 6, 2011. (French)