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Jun 19, 2005 · In the late 1950's, when the young Louis Malle was beginning his filmmaking career, his restless, searching temperament served him well at first: at 23 he was a co-director (with Jacques-Yves ...
The Documentaries of Louis Malle. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, and AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS. At the same time, however, with ...
Louis Malle was a highly acclaimed French filmmaker known for his diverse body of work that spanned multiple genres and styles. Here are some of his most highly regarded films: “Au revoir les enfants” (1987) – This semi-autobiographical film follows the story of a young boy attending a Catholic boarding school during the German occupation ...
Few directors have portrayed the agonies and epiphanies of growing up as poetically—and controversially—as Louis Malle. Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants tell stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Tragic, amusing, and poignant, these three films are more than just coming-of-age stories ...
Louis Malle. This most unpredictable of filmmakers enriched cinema over a nearly forty-year career that took him from the peripheries of the French New Wave to the vanguard of American moviemaking. 17 Results.
After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le métro, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with The Fire Within (Le feu follet), a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows), in an implosive, haunted performance, plays Alain Leroy, a self-destructive writer who resolves to kill himself and ...
The Lovers: Directed by Louis Malle. With Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre, José Luis de Vilallonga. Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
