Nicole Vedrès

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Nicole Vedrès (born May 4, 1911 in Paris ; † November 20, 1965 ibid; actually Nicole Rais ), spelling otherwise , Nicole Védrès , Nicole Vèdrès , Nicole Vèdres and Nicole Vedres , respectively , was a French writer , film director and film theorist . She achieved international fame in particular through her documentary debut in Paris 1900 (1947).

Life

Nicole Vedrès was born in Paris in 1911 as the daughter of J. Rais and his wife Ludmila (birth name: Savitzky). Her father was a librarian in the Paris Chamber of Deputies. She studied literature and law at the University of Paris . In 1932 she married G. Vedrès, whose name she took on. The author became a member of the Paris intellectual circle and discovered the medium of film in 1945 when she was collecting images from French cinema for an exhibition for Henri Langlois , founder of the Cinémathèque française . Vedrès' work resulted in a book entitled Images du cinéma français , which was published in the same year by the Éditions du Chêne and provided with a foreword by Paul Éluard .

Around the same time, Vedrès was commissioned by the film producer Pierre Braunberger to make a documentary about the Paris fin de siècle . The resulting work Paris 1900 portrays the social and cultural change that prevailed in the French capital from 1900 to 1914. The cut archive recordings of the then still unknown Alain Resnais show, to the music of Guy Bernard and the voice of Nicole Vedrès, insights into the World Exhibition of 1889 , the construction of the Eiffel Tower , the artists' quarter of Montmartre and France's entry into the First World War . Her directorial debut was enthusiastically received by critics in France and was awarded the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize in 1947 . Two years later, the French Film Critics Association's award for the best film of the year followed. In Germany , the film-dienst praised the visual material and Vedrès' idiosyncratic design; in the United States, Paris was nominated as best foreign film in 1900 by the National Board of Review in 1950 , but it fell behind Curt Oertel's documentary Michelangelo (1940).

After the great success of Paris in 1900 , the documentary film Life begins tomorrow followed a year later , which was made in collaboration with UNESCO . In Vedrès' first semi-fictional work, a young man from the French provinces meets prominent artists and intellectuals who philosophize about life in the present and the future. Among others, Jean-Paul Sartre , Le Corbusier , André Gide and Pablo Picasso have their say , who, depending on their field of activity, are only titled in the film as “existentialist”, “architect”, “author” or “artist”. The film-dienst assessed life begins tomorrow as an informative contemporary document and assisted the 87-minute documentary with an appealing dramaturgical and at the same time exciting design. The committed communist's second directorial work was nominated for the British Film Academy Award in the category Best Documentary in 1951 , but could not prevail against Paul Dickson's work The Undefeated .

After the short film Amazone (1951) and the collaboration with Jean Rostand on the short film Aux Frontières de l'Homme (1953), Nicole Vedrès turned to television in 1953 , where, together with Pierre Desgraupes and Pierre Dumayet, she wrote the literary program Lecture pour tous (zu German: literature for everyone ) moderated. In parallel to her work in film and television, she has published several publications, including a number of novels that have been received by contemporary critics as "cheerful, unusual and charming" .

Vedrès died in her hometown in 1965 at the age of 54. There was a son from their marriage. Posthumously she published the play Les Canaques in 1966 and the work Microclimats in 2000 .

Works

  • 1943: Un siècle d'élégance française (essay)
  • 1945: Images du cinéma français (essay)
  • 1945: La sculpture en France depuis Rodin (essay)
  • 1946: La labyrinthe; ou, Le jardin de Sir Arthur (novel)
  • 1948: Christophe, l'allié du destin
  • 1953: Christophe; ou, Le choix des armes (novel)
  • 1953: Les Cordes rouges (novel)
  • 1958: L'exécuteur (novel)
  • 1958: Paris, le ... (Chronicle)
  • 1960: La bête lointaine (novel)
  • 1960: suite parisienne
  • 1961: Les Subscriptions absents
  • 1962: La Fin de septembre (novel)
  • 1962: L'horloge parlante
  • 1963: L'Hôtel d'Albe
  • 1963: Point de Paris
  • 1965: Paris 6e (novel)
  • 1966: Les Canaques (play)
  • 2000: Microclimats

Filmography

  • 1947: Paris 1900 (documentary)
  • 1949: Life begins tomorrow ( La Vie commence demain , documentary)
  • 1951: Amazone (short film)
  • 1953: Aux Frontières de l'Homme (short film)

Awards

literature

Primary literature

  • Védrès, Nicole: Le cinéma et le piège de la réalité . In: Bovay, Georges Michel: Cinéma: un oeil ouvert sur le monde . Lausanne: Editions Clairefontaine, 1952. (French edition)

Secondary literature

  • Katz, Ephraim: The Macmillan international film encyclopedia . New York, NY: Macmillan, 1994. ISBN 0-333-61601-4 (English edition)
  • Passek, Jean Loup: Dictionnaire du cinéma . Paris: Larousse-Bordas, 1998. - ISBN 2-03-512317-8 (French edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Entry in WBIS Online (accessed on May 4, 2011).
  2. ↑ a b cf. Vedrès (Nicole) . In: Who's who in France 1959-1960: Dictionnaire biographique paraissant tous les deux ans (France - Communautés et Français de l'Étranger) . Paris: J. Lafitte, 1959 (accessed via WBIS Online)
  3. ↑ cf. Lexicon of international film
  4. ↑ cf. film service 07/1954
  5. ↑ cf. film service 07/1954
  6. ↑ cf. Védrès (Nicole) . In: Bourin, André; Rousselot, Jean: Dictionnaire de la littérature française contemporaine . Paris: Larousse, 1966 (Les Dictionnaires de l'homme du XXe siècle) (accessed via WBIS Online).
personal data
SURNAME Vedrès, Nicole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Védrès, Nicole; Vedres, Nicole; Vèdres, Nicole; Rais, Nicole (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director, writer and film theorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1965
Place of death Paris , France