Jacques Saulnier

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Jacques Saulnier (born September 8, 1928 in Paris , France , † November 9, 2014 there ) was a French film architect .

Life

Jacques Saulnier is regarded as the most important production designer of the Nouvelle Vague alongside Bernard Evein . From 1948 he received his training at the Paris film school IDHEC and also studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

In the 1950s he worked as an assistant to the film architect Max Douy until he became self-employed in 1957. From 1958 to 1960 Saulnier cooperated regularly with his colleague Evein, since then he has been solely responsible. Jacques Saulnier created his most important decorations - since 1993 exclusively - for the productions of the filmmaker Alain Resnais , but also regularly outfitted the films of the adventure film and thriller specialist Henri Verneuil . With the exception of Louis de Funès, all of France's top stars of those years moved in its backdrops , above all Jean Gabin , Jean-Paul Belmondo , Alain Delon , Romy Schneider , Lino Ventura , Yves Montand and Pierre Richard , but also international greats such as Horst Buchholz , Anthony Quinn , Omar Sharif , Peter Sellers , Woody Allen, and Gene Hackman .

Saulnier's best works include the stylized and baroque backdrops for Resnais' Last Year in Marienbad and Providence , a later work by the same director. Further artistic highlights in his oeuvre resulted from the collaboration with Louis Malle , Claude Chabrol , Volker Schlöndorff and Pierre Granier-Deferre , for whom Saulnier designed the buildings for a number of remarkable crime films and relationship dramas.

For Providence , Eine Liebe von Swann and Smoking / No Smoking , he has each received a César for the best film constructions.

Filmography

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 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 56.

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personal data
SURNAME Saulnier, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2014
Place of death Paris , France