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FRENCH FILM DIRECTORS
Louis Malle
HUGO FREY
Manchester University Press
MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK
distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Copyright © Hugo Frey 2004
The right of Hugo Frey to be identified as the author of this work
has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
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ISBN o 7190 6456 2
hardback
o 7190 6457 o
paperback
First published 2004
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Printed in Great Britain
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Contents
LIST OF PLATES
page vi
vii
SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD
ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
i
In the eye of the storm
1
2 Aesthetic vision
38
3 Active pessimism and the politics of the 1950s
64
4 Malle's histories ~
90
5 Primal scenes
115
6 Conclusion
142
FILMOGRAPHY
145
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
152
156
INDEX
List of plates
i
Ascenseur pour Vechafaud
(1957)
page 30
2
Le Feufollet
(1963)
3i
3
Le Feufollet
(1963)
3i
4
Le Voleur
(1967)
32
5
Le Voleur
(1967)
33
6
L'Indefantdme
(1968)
33
7
Lacombe Lucien
(1974)
34
8
Lacombe Lucien
(1974)
35
9 Pretty Baby (1978)
35
36
10
Atlantic City USA
(1980)
11 My
Dinner with Andre
(1981)
36
12
Au revoir
Jes
enfants
(1987)
37
Photographs courtesy of the BFI Stills Collection (London). By permission
from
Nouvelles Editions de Films
(Paris). If any proper acknowledgement
has not been made, copyright-holders are invited to contact the publisher.
Series editors' foreword
To an anglophone audience, the combination of the words 'French* and
'cinema' evokes a particular kind of film: elegant and wordy, sexy but
serious - an image as dependent on national stereotypes as is that of the
crudely commercial Hollywood blockbuster, which is not to say that either
image is without foundation. Over the past two decades, this generalised
sense of a significant relationship between French identity and film has
been explored in scholarly books and articles, and has entered the
curriculum at university level and, in Britain, at A level. The study of film
as an art-form and (to a lesser extent) as industry, has become a popular
and widespread element of French Studies, and French cinema has
acquired an important place within Film Studies. Meanwhile, the growth
in multi-screen and 'art-house* cinemas, together with the development of
the video industry, has led to the greater availability of foreign-language
films to an English-speaking audience. Responding to these developments,
this series is designed for students and teachers seeking information and
accessible but rigorous critical study of French cinema, and for the
enthusiastic filmgoer who wants to know more.
The adoption of a director-based approach raises questions about
auteurism.
A series that categorises films not according to period or to
genre (for example), but to the person who directed them, runs the risk of
espousing a romantic view of film as the product of solitary inspiration. On
this model, the critic's role might seem to be that of discovering contin-
uities, revealing a necessarily coherent set of themes and motifs which
correspond to the particular genius of the individual. This is not our aim:
the
auteur
perspective on film, itself most clearly articulated in France in the
early 1950s, will be interrogated in certain volumes of the series, and,
throughout, the director will be treated as one highly significant element
in a complex process of film production and reception which includes
socio-economic and political determinants, the work of a large and highly
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