Alexandre Astruc
Nacimiento : 1923-07-13, Paris, France
Muerte : 2016-05-19
Historia
Crítico y director de cine francés, nacido en París. Está considerado como uno de los teóricos más relevantes del cine europeo de los cuarenta. Al finalizar sus estudios de Derecho y Filología, se dedicó a escribir novelas para, nada más terminar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, colaborar en diversas revistas especializadas en cine, La Gazette du Cinéma, Cine-digest, L'Écran Français y posteriormente en Cahiers du Cinéma. Sus escritos se convirtieron en punto de referencia indiscutible de la necesaria renovación creativa del cine francés. En especial su famoso artículo "Nacimiento de una nueva vanguardia: la caméra-stylo", publicado en L'Écran Français en marzo de 1948. En dicho texto recogió sus ideas sobre cine y literatura. Sin duda, este texto se convirtió en uno de los pilares teóricos del grupo de directores franceses amparados bajo la denominación de Nouvelle Vague. Participó a finales de los años cuarenta, junto con Jean Cocteau y André Bazin, en la fundación de Objetif 49, un activo cine-club parisino, al tiempo que dirigió sus primeros cortometrajes, en los que había una gran dosis de experimentación. Su carrera cinematográfica no fue muy larga y en ella cabe destacar Le rideau cramoisi (1952) y Les mauvaises rencontres (1956), ambas películas interpretadas por Anouk Aimée, sobre todo porque en ellas concreta sus ideas teóricas. Su postura creativa, no obstante, no era compartida por los productores que dejaron de confiar en él a partir del estreno de Flammes sur l'Adriatique (1967), por lo que tuvo que buscar cobijo en la televisión y la literatura para poder continuar trabajando. Publicó varias novelas.
Screenplay
Fermin y Therese fueron una joven pareja que huyó para poder estar solos, afincándose en Chatillón. Therese empezó a trabar una buena amistad con la familia Numance, una de las más distinguidas de la ciudad, y la joven comenzó a valorar la libertad de su vida y la voluntad de sus propias decisiones. Esto no gustó a Fermín, quien acaba por trastocar el carácter de Therese.
Self
Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.
Writer
Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is in deeply in love to another woman.
Director
Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is in deeply in love to another woman.
Director
After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic.
Director
An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
Script Editor
An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
Director
Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited in the Pléiade edition and about whom he has written several books. With Alexander Astruc, he made the film Sartre par lui-même (1976) and, with Antoine Burnier, co-wrote the script of Claude Garretta’s TV film Sartre, L’Age des passions (2006). As a journalist, Contat contributed literary columns for Le Monde since 1978, and as an amateur musician, he was the jazz columnist for the magazine Télérama. His most recent books are Pour Sartre (2006) and André Gorz; vers la société libérée (2009).
L'éditeur Guy
Huyendo de sus padres burgueses, una joven cae en manos de un guapo, rico y neurótico joven alemán. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.
Director
A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc, originally aired sometime around 1970.
Director
Dos patriotas yugoslavos tratan de llevarse un barco de guerra que ha sido requisado antes que dejarlo caer en manos de los invasores alemanes. Contemplan la posibilidad de navegar hasta Inglaterra para usar el navío en la lucha contra los nazis. El capitán está obligado a seguir las órdenes, mientras que un colaborador nazi que se encuentra a bordo plenea secretamente hacerse con el buque. Cuando sus distintos planes no pueden concretarse, los dos amigos juran que destruirán el barco pieza a pieza antes que abandonarlo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He recognizes the man, minister of the Third Republic, called Morel by his companions. Carnot, the chief of the maquisards, is suspicious of a doctor who expressly disapproves of the resistance and wants to have him shot as soon as he has treated Morel. Philippe, who is second in command, intervenes in favor of the Chevalier. Meanwhile, peasants denounce the maquisards to the Nazis and the camp is surrounded by the Germans. The camp is saved thanks to Philippe who takes command of the group. He decides to leave the shelter and they begin the long march through the Cévennes to rally maquisard Napoleon in the Vercors...
Director
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He recognizes the man, minister of the Third Republic, called Morel by his companions. Carnot, the chief of the maquisards, is suspicious of a doctor who expressly disapproves of the resistance and wants to have him shot as soon as he has treated Morel. Philippe, who is second in command, intervenes in favor of the Chevalier. Meanwhile, peasants denounce the maquisards to the Nazis and the camp is surrounded by the Germans. The camp is saved thanks to Philippe who takes command of the group. He decides to leave the shelter and they begin the long march through the Cévennes to rally maquisard Napoleon in the Vercors...
Director
Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.
Writer
A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...
Director
A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...
Writer
"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no white marble, no nothing. All Greek temples are dedicated to Apollo etc, and this particular one was not dedicated to anyone and is in a place where there never was a city nearby, in a kind of wasteland, in a ditch. But, just by going up a bit –you are in the centre of Peloponissos- on a clear day, you can see the sea on both your left and right. I went back there, at least six, seven or eight times, as if I wanted to think or find myself. So, at the temple in Bassae, I made a short 10 minute film and I was lucky enough to encounter two days of clouds and mist between the columns." —ecofilms.gr (Jean-Daniel Pollet, Tours d’horizons, Editions de l’oeil 2005)
Director
Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in love with Frédéric and in order to keep him away from Anne, pushes him into Barbara's arms.
Adaptation
Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover she thinks she will find fulfillment only to realize that she is just another plaything in a man’s hands.
Dialogue
Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover she thinks she will find fulfillment only to realize that she is just another plaything in a man’s hands.
Director
Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover she thinks she will find fulfillment only to realize that she is just another plaything in a man’s hands.
Adaptation
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
Director
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
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A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
Screenplay
Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients.
Director
Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients.
Writer
Raoul De Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Writer
A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.
Director
A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.
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Screenplay
Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sidney has attempted to rape her. The uncle also puts pressure on the young woman. After much hesitation, Lizzie finally accepts but Sidney, who has nearly got lynched, takes refuge at her home...
Ludovic Halévy (uncredited)
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
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Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
