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1:29:11. God’s Country. 1:21:12. . . . And the Pursuit of Happiness. 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.
LOUIS MALLE. During his career Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) became one of France’s most renowned directors both at home and internationally. He was known for the variety and breadth of his work as a feature-film-maker and a documentarist, as well as its frequently controversial subject matter.
French TitleEnglish TitleYearType Of FilmLe Monde du SilenceThe Silent World1956documentaryAscenseur pour l’EchafaudElevator to the Gallows1957featureLes AmantsThe Lovers1958featureZazie dans le MetroZazie in the Metro1960featureLouis Malle. Louis Marie Malle ( French: [lwi mal]; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "a filmmaker difficult to pin down", Malle made documentaries, romances, period dramas, and thrillers.
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Louis Malle (1932-1995) Louis Malle. Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle's family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Paris.
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- Thumeries, Nord, France
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Directed by Louis Malle • 1985 • United States. In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan's second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline. Free of stereotypes about America's "heartland" God ...
Louis Marie Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film "The Silent World" won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony with the award instead being presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau. Later in his career he was nominated multiple ...
Apr 7, 1985 · Malle is a small, trim, dark-eyed man with dark wavy hair, shot with gray at the temples. He is nervous, intense, restless, and his mind darts from idea to idea like some bright fish exploring the ...
