Maurice Forster

Películas

The Slump Is Over
Director of Photography
A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.
Romania, land of love
Cinematography
End of the World
Director of Photography
The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.
Antoinette Sabrier
Director of Photography
"Adapted from a play by Romain Coolus, whose work Dulac had covered as a theater critic at the turn of the century, this atmospheric and socially inquisitive film tells the tale of an independent, sexually liberated woman (Eve Francis) who is torn between her husband (Gabriel Gabrio) and her lover (Paul Guide). Controversial at the time of its release, Antoinette Sabrier finds Dulac using her bold sense of visual rhythm to achieve a complex portrait of a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and a nuanced investigation into human intimacy, with her characters’ emotions expressed through then-innovative cinematic techniques such as slow motion and associative montage. " - Film Society of Lincoln Center
The Madness of the Valiants
Director of Photography
A symbolist portrait of two gypsies in love, this captivating film finds Dulac deconstructing onscreen gender roles and striving to achieve her idea of cinema as a “visual symphony,” emphasizing rhythmic editing over acting to achieve a “cinema of suggestion.”
Gribiche
Director of Photography
Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.
Miracle of the Wolves
Cinematography
King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.
La sonriente Madame Beudet
Director of Photography
El filme nos narra la historia de Madame Beudet, una mujer moderna afrancesada a la que le encanta tocar el piano obras de compositores melenudos, leer novelas y modernas revistas; está casada con un empresario textil muy ordinario y rudo que además aburre a su esposa al tener diferentes intereses culturales a los de ella, como ir al teatro a ver Fausto.
Crainquebille
Director of Photography
Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protests, Crainquebille is arrested, supposedly for swearing at the policeman.
Yo acuso
Director of Photography
La historia de dos hombres, uno casado, y el otro amante de la esposa del primero, que se reúnen en las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y cómo esta historia se convierte en un pequeño ejemplo de los horrores de la guerra.
Âmes de fous
Director of Photography
A serial in six episodes: 1) La seconde Marquise de Sombreuse; 2) Le Chateau maudit; 3) Folle; 4) L'Exilee; 5) La Danseuse inconnue; 6) Hallucination et realite. Set in modern day France in a chateau thought to be haunted since the Revolution, a Marquis and his daughter Irene (granddaughter of Marie Antoinette's lady companion) are preyed upon by Latin seductress, Lola, and her brother, Pedro. (Summary by Tami Williams, from the 2018 Il Cinema Ritrovato film program)
Géo, le mystérieux
Director of Photography
An industrialist badly in need of money hopes to marry his daughter off to a rich suitor, but she only has eyes for her penniless childhood sweetheart.
Venus Victrix
Director of Photography
A wealthy theatre owner decides to leave his wife for a dancer.