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Apr 12, 1987 · MALLE RELIVES TRAUMA OF HIS CHILDHOOD. By DONALD CHASE. April 12, 1987 12 AM PT. PROVINS, France —. In the German-occupied France of 1944, when Louis Malle was 12 and a student at the Petit ...
The screenplay, adapted by Malle and Roger Nimier from an undistinguished novel by Noël Calef, is a fairly straightforward murder-gone-wrong story: more elaborate than most, perhaps, but still characterized by the sort of swiftness and brutal linearity that thriller audiences expect. An adulterous couple, Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau) and ...
May 15, 2024 · A change is perhaps taking shape: a monograph, signed Aurore Renaut (Gremese, 2022), analyzes this year the most recognized film, Goodbye childrenand Pauline Guedj studied the American part of her career (Louis Malle. Views of America, Ovadia, 2020). Nothing recent had appeared in France on the overall work, until this extensive work, which ...
Apr 2, 2006 · April 2, 2006 12 AM PT. 3 Films by Louis Malle. (Criterion Collection, $80) FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT wasn’t the only director of the French New Wave who excelled in capturing the trials and ...
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Mar 15, 2011 · With Au revoir les enfants (1987), Malle homed in on the autobiographical reference point of this theme, the moment that “may well have determined my vocation as a filmmaker,” when, age eleven, he watched a Gestapo official enter the classroom of his Fontainebleau school and summon a fellow pupil by an unfamiliar, Jewish name.
Dec 18, 2019 · Malle. Malle made 12 archiveable films and they’re all directed with ambition and intelligence. Malle is here because of that (12 archiveable films this far down at #125 is a clear strength) and he has two films in the top 500 films of all-time. Almost all of the other directors with 2+ films in the top 500 have been named already. The reason Malle has fallen this far down the list may ...
Malle's first feature film, "The Lovers" (1957) created a scandal at the time, with its nudity and its study of a frankly adult love affair. It had a more lasting legacy, as Malle recalled last April: "It made Jeanne Moreau into a movie star. Before that, she was well known on the stage in Paris, but she'd never made it in the movies.
