Georges Franju
Nacimiento : 1912-04-12, Fougères, France
Muerte : 1987-11-05
Historia
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Georges Franju was a French filmmaker.
He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine. Before working in French cinema, Franju had several different jobs. Franju was also briefly in the military in Algeria and was discharged in 1932. On his return, Franju studied to become a set designer and later created backdrops for music halls including Casino de Paris and the Folles Bergère.
In the mid-thirties, Franju and Henri Langlois met through Franju's twin brother Jacques Franju. As well as creating the 16 mm short film Le Métro, Langlois and Franju also started a short-lived film magazine and created a film club called Le Cercle du Cinema with 500 francs he borrowed from Langlois' parents. The club showed silent films from their own collections followed by an informal debate about them amongst members. From Le Cercle du Cinema, Franju and Langlois founded the Cinématheque Française in 1936.
Franju ceased to be closely related with the Cinématheque Française as early as 1938, and only became associated with it strongly again in the 1980s when he was appointed as the honorary artistic director of the Cinématheque.
In 1949, Franju began work on a series of nine documentary films. The Nazi occupation of Paris and the industrialism following World War II influenced Franju's early works.
With Head Against the Wall (French:La tête contre les murs) in 1958, Franju turned toward fiction feature films. His second feature was the horror film Eyes Without a Face (French:Les Yeux sans Visage) about a surgeon who tries to repair his daughter's ruined face by grafting on to it the faces of beautiful women. His 1963 film Judex was a tribute to the silent film serials Judex and Fantomas. In Franju's later years his film work became less frequent. Franju occasionally directed for television and in the late seventies he retired from filmmaking to preside over the Cinématheque Française.
In her study of French cinema since the French new wave, Claire Clouzot described Franju's film style as "a poignant fantastic realism inherited from surrealism and Jean Painlevé science cinema, and influenced by the expressionism of Lang and Murnau". Franju's focus was on the visual aspect of filmmaking, which he claimed marked a director as an auteur. Franju claimed to "not have the story writing gift" and was focused on what he described as the "putting into form" of the film.
Franju was also extremely influenced by surrealism. He used elements of surrealism and shock horror within his films in order to “awaken” his audience. Franju had a long history of friendship with well-known surrealists including Andre Breton, and the influence of this movement is extremely evident in his works. Franju uses these elements to link horror, history, and an ironic commentary on modernity’s ideal of progress. Franju is quoted as having said “It’s the bad combination, it’s the wrong synthesis, constantly being made by the eye as it looks around, that stops us from seeing everything as strange.”
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Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
En 1948, el cantante francés Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) recibe una Paillard Bolex, su primera cámara. Hasta 1982, filmará horas de metraje, su diario filmado. Dondequiera que vaya, lleva su cámara con él. Filma su vida y vive como filma: lugares, momentos, amigos, amores, desgracias.
Himself
Made for "Cinéma, de notre temps" series. Interview with Georges Franju (1912-1987), a figure of immense importance in the history of French cinema, not primarily for his films (exceptional though many of these are) but for being the co-founder, with Henri Langlois, of the Cinémathèque Française in 1936, France's most famous and important film archive.
At the editing table, Georges Franju comments on two sequences from his film, Les Yeux sans visage. Episode of the TV program "Cinéma, cinémas".
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A travelling company makes its way round the small villages of France. Shot for the program Cinéma 16 broadcast by the French channel FR3, where Franju adapted an argument written by one of his favourite actors, Pierre Brasseur, and worked with his fetish actress, Edith Scob.
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A man comes back to his old haunts and surveys the changes around him
Original Music Composer
Clad in a featureless red mask, The Man Without A Face is involved in a single-minded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of Louis Feuillade.
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Clad in a featureless red mask, The Man Without A Face is involved in a single-minded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of Louis Feuillade.
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Story of a young, inexperienced ship captain named Marlow, who struggles in solitude during the voyage with disease, insubordinate crew and vagaries of weather.
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Story of a young, inexperienced ship captain named Marlow, who struggles in solitude during the voyage with disease, insubordinate crew and vagaries of weather.
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Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.
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Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.
A portrait of feuilleton author, Marcel Allain, creator of one of Franju’s favourite heroes: Fantômas.
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A portrait of feuilleton author, Marcel Allain, creator of one of Franju’s favourite heroes: Fantômas.
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The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)
Scenario Writer
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
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In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
Self
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean Rouch, and many others.
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Favraux, un banquero sin escrúpulos, recibe una nota amenazadora, firmada por un tal Judex, que le pide que devuelva todo el dinero que ha robado. Favraux se niega y aparentemente muere después de un baile de disfraces. Sin embargo, sólo ha sido drogado por Judex y encerrado... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor francés François Mauriac. Cuando Thérèse Desqueyroux es absuelta por un tribunal de haber intentado envenenar a su marido Bernard, recapitula los acontecimientos que la condujeron a ser acusada de intento de asesinato. La gris y monótona vida provinciana y unas convenciones sociales asfixiantes la llevaron a contraer matrimonio con un hombre anódino e inspido, al cual sólo le preocupaba mantener sus propiedades y el buen nombre de la familia. El enigma consiste en saber si se trató de un accidente, si Thérése aumentó premeditadamente la dosis de la medicina que Bernard tomaba o si lo planeó inconscientemente.
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Adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor francés François Mauriac. Cuando Thérèse Desqueyroux es absuelta por un tribunal de haber intentado envenenar a su marido Bernard, recapitula los acontecimientos que la condujeron a ser acusada de intento de asesinato. La gris y monótona vida provinciana y unas convenciones sociales asfixiantes la llevaron a contraer matrimonio con un hombre anódino e inspido, al cual sólo le preocupaba mantener sus propiedades y el buen nombre de la familia. El enigma consiste en saber si se trató de un accidente, si Thérése aumentó premeditadamente la dosis de la medicina que Bernard tomaba o si lo planeó inconscientemente.
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An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
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An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
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En París, un brillante y desquiciado cirujano rapta chicas con el fin de utilizar su piel para reconstruir la belleza de su hija, destrozada por un trágico accidente del que él se siente culpable.
Adaptation
Un chico termina en un hospital psiquiátrico pese a no estar realmente loco, pero poco a poco se va dando cuenta de que a la larga puede acabar realmente trastornado. El adolescente tuvo muchos enfrentamientos con su severo padre y una juventud de lo más inquieta y ahora deberá luchar por mantenerse en la línea de la cordura.
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Un chico termina en un hospital psiquiátrico pese a no estar realmente loco, pero poco a poco se va dando cuenta de que a la larga puede acabar realmente trastornado. El adolescente tuvo muchos enfrentamientos con su severo padre y una juventud de lo más inquieta y ahora deberá luchar por mantenerse en la línea de la cordura.
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Un muchacho se enamora de una compañera de colegio. Poco después, el niño escapa a la salida de la escuela y corre hasta la boca del metro siguiendo a la muchacha. El subterráneo se le presenta laberíntico: se pierde y queda atrapado hasta la mañana siguiente. Durante la noche sueña que persigue a la niña por ese mundo fantástico plagado de sombras y fantasmas.
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El Ministerio de Bellas Artes encargó a Franju un film sobre la famosa catedral de París. Como era bien conocida la trayectoria del cineasta, se le impuso una condición: “Ruede solamente la catedral. Ni curas, ni oficios. La arquitectura solamente”. El film, rodado en Cinemascope, terminó siendo un hermoso canto a la belleza del edificio.
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El Ministerio de Bellas Artes encargó a Franju un film sobre la famosa catedral de París. Como era bien conocida la trayectoria del cineasta, se le impuso una condición: “Ruede solamente la catedral. Ni curas, ni oficios. La arquitectura solamente”. El film, rodado en Cinemascope, terminó siendo un hermoso canto a la belleza del edificio.
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Documental sobre el Teatro Nacional Popular, una importante sala de teatro experimental que estaba bajo la dirección de Jean Vilar. Franju combina las filmaciones de las representaciones teatrales con imágenes documentales, creando conexiones y confrontaciones entre el teatro y el mundo real.
Director
Documental sobre el Teatro Nacional Popular, una importante sala de teatro experimental que estaba bajo la dirección de Jean Vilar. Franju combina las filmaciones de las representaciones teatrales con imágenes documentales, creando conexiones y confrontaciones entre el teatro y el mundo real.
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The life and work of the pioneering scientists, told through the words of Marie Curie.
Director
A lyrical evocation of times past and a reflection on the inevitable passing of time through the recollections of an old fisherman.
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A lyrical evocation of times past and a reflection on the inevitable passing of time through the recollections of an old fisherman.
Screenplay
Once again in this documentary Franju depicts a distressing scenario, another of those corners of society hidden from everyday eyes: the tale of an abandoned dog finally taken to the pound, where a sad fate awaits it.
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Once again in this documentary Franju depicts a distressing scenario, another of those corners of society hidden from everyday eyes: the tale of an abandoned dog finally taken to the pound, where a sad fate awaits it.
Writer
The planet is filled with dust and particles of all kinds, natural or originated by man. Such a state of things has of course a great many consequences for public health, with diseases like silicosis, inherent in various human activities, some of which are detailed (farming, notably the treatment of flax; industrial activity, particularly porcelain and cement work, coal mining).
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The planet is filled with dust and particles of all kinds, natural or originated by man. Such a state of things has of course a great many consequences for public health, with diseases like silicosis, inherent in various human activities, some of which are detailed (farming, notably the treatment of flax; industrial activity, particularly porcelain and cement work, coal mining).
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A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing - at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.
Screenplay
This 1952 film by Georges Franju is a biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès. It features Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son, André, as his own father. LE GRAND MÉLIÈS, like Franju’s Louis Feuillade tribute, JUDEX, is a revealing homage to one of the director’s idols.
Director
This 1952 film by Georges Franju is a biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès. It features Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son, André, as his own father. LE GRAND MÉLIÈS, like Franju’s Louis Feuillade tribute, JUDEX, is a revealing homage to one of the director’s idols.
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This Government-commissioned documentary was intended to reflect the modernisation of French industry. However, in Franju’s hands it became an ode to fire and a fascinating portrayal of industrial architecture.
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This Government-commissioned documentary was intended to reflect the modernisation of French industry. However, in Franju’s hands it became an ode to fire and a fascinating portrayal of industrial architecture.
Director
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
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This silent film on the Paris Metro was the first foray into film by Georges Franju and only foray into the realization of the future creator of the Cinémathèque Française, Henri Langlois.
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