Pierre Guffroy
出生 : 1926-04-22, Paris, France
死亡 : 2010-09-27
略歴
Pierre Guffroy (22 April 1926 – 27 September 2010) was a French production designer and art director. He won an Oscar for Tess in 1979 and had been previously nominated for one in another category Best Art Direction for Is Paris Burning? in 1966.
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Self (archive footage)
Self
A documentary that interviews the cast and crew of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."
Self
Documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."
Self
Documentary about Roman Polanski's film adaptation of the 1891 novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy.
Production Design
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Production Design
コリン・ファース主演映画。プレイボーイの子爵と若い未亡人のスキャンダラスな恋を描いた、コデルロス・ド・ラクロの『危険な関係』が原作。18世紀フランスの優美さも魅力のひとつだ。
Production Design
パリで開かれた学会に出席した米人医師とその妻。しかし、妻が突然何者かに誘拐されてしまったことから、医師は言葉の通じないパリを奔走し、妻の行方を追う。
Costume Design
「ライトスタッフ」で一躍有名になったP・カウフマンが68年のチェコ動乱、いわゆる“プラハの春”を題材にして描いた超大作。若者の間に芽生えた民主化要求の波がソ連軍の軍事介入で圧殺されていく中、プレイボーイの医師と二人の女の青春が鮮烈に描かれる。古いニュース・フィルムと本編の画調を完璧に合わせるという離れ技を、ベルイマン作品で鳴らした名カメラマン、スヴェン・ニクヴィストが見事にやってのけている。
Production Design
「ライトスタッフ」で一躍有名になったP・カウフマンが68年のチェコ動乱、いわゆる“プラハの春”を題材にして描いた超大作。若者の間に芽生えた民主化要求の波がソ連軍の軍事介入で圧殺されていく中、プレイボーイの医師と二人の女の青春が鮮烈に描かれる。古いニュース・フィルムと本編の画調を完璧に合わせるという離れ技を、ベルイマン作品で鳴らした名カメラマン、スヴェン・ニクヴィストが見事にやってのけている。
Production Design
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
Production Design
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
Production Design
「抵抗(レジスタンス) 死刑囚の手記より」「少女ムシェット」などの名作を残したフランスの名匠ロベール・ブレッソン監督が、ロシアの文豪トルストイの原作をもとに、偶然手にしてしまったニセ札を知らずに使ってしまったことから、一家惨殺事件を引き起こし転落していく人生を歩む青年イボンの姿を描いた。
Production Design
Alice invites all four men she has loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times. At 35, Alice is a career woman who doesn't think she has time for a lasting relationship. Thus, her love life has been, and probably always will be, a series of trysts and one-night stands.
Production Design
文豪ハーディの名作を、ポランスキーが映像化したメロドラマ。19世紀末、ドーセット地方の貧農の娘テスは遠縁のダーバビル家に奉公に出される。その息子にかどわかされ私生児を孕んだ彼女だが、実家に戻って生んだ子はわずか数週間で死んでしまう。後に働きに出た農場で牧師の息子と美しい恋に落ち結婚するが、テスの過去を初夜に知った彼はそのまま外国に去っていく。流転の人生の果てに再び彼とめぐりあうテスだが、もはや新たな選択は破滅を意味した……。
Production Design
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
Production Design
Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems...
Production Design
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Set Decoration
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Production Design
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Production Design
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Production Design
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison after they have been reunited. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.
Production Design
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
Art Direction
Rosalie, a beautiful young woman gets involved with successful businessman Cesar. One day, Rosalie's former flame David appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a jealous intensity never before seen by Rosalie, and because of that, she returns to David. She remains conflicted regarding her choice of partner, but eventually, one of the men does something which resolves the situation.
Production Design
Rosalie, a beautiful young woman gets involved with successful businessman Cesar. One day, Rosalie's former flame David appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a jealous intensity never before seen by Rosalie, and because of that, she returns to David. She remains conflicted regarding her choice of partner, but eventually, one of the men does something which resolves the situation.
Production Design
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Art Direction
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Production Design
Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
Production Design
Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?
Art Direction
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
Production Design
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
Production Design
When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the Côte d'Azur. They get closer during the long voyage and the man invites her to his marital home.
Production Design
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
Production Design
A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.
Production Design
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Production Design
14歳のムシェット。家庭の貧困と父の暴力と、同級生の豊かさと美しさ、そして土曜の午後のカンタータの練習に痛めつけられる少女。森番の洩らす秘密を知って、約束を守ると誓ったのに犯されてしまう無垢な肉体。しかし、その秘密すらただの幻影に過ぎなかったと分かって、少女は完全な孤立を味わう。そんな彼女に残された選択は……。ブレッソンが、「田舎司祭の日記」の原作者G・ベルナノスの小説を、自ら脚色して映画化。
Art Direction
名匠ルネ・クレマンがオーソン・ウェルズ以下超豪華オールスター・キャストで撮り上げた戦争大作。連合軍の反撃が始まっていた1944年夏、自由フランス軍とレジスタンスがパリを奪還し、解放するまでを描く。
Production Design
金持ちの妻と結婚して退屈な毎日を送っていたフェルナンドは、再会した昔の愛人マリアンヌと一晩を過ごす。翌朝、部屋には首に鋏を突き立てられた男の死体があった。
Production Design
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
Assistant Art Director
1431年、百年戦争の最中、ノルマンディーのルーアン(Rouen)。オルレアンの乙女 "ジョーン・オブ・アークは、敵対するフランス軍に捕らえられ、敵であるイギリス軍が監督する教会裁判所で不当な裁判にかけられる。
Art Direction
Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
Production Design
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption. This film is the third part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
Assistant Production Design
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompagnied by Henri de Lagardère when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.
Decorator
Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big Bend in Texas.
First Assistant Art Direction
大企業社長の側近ジュリアン(モーリス・ロネ)と社長夫人のフロランス(ジャンヌ・モロー)は不倫関係にあり、社長殺害を計画。完全犯罪を成し遂げたはずだったが、ミスに気付いたジュリアンは犯行現場に引き返す途中、無人となった会社のエレベーター内に閉じ込められてしまう。そのころ、彼の車を盗んだ若いカップルが別の犯罪を引き起こしていた……。