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Director
Louis Malle
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Profile
Louis Marie Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film "The Silent World" won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony with the award instead being presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau. Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards. Malle is also one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times.
In Their Own Words
I was struck by how Flaubert describes the generation of 1848, a generation which was caught in something they could not understand. And I felt that there was a kind of parallel with this younger generation during World War II.
On Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education , Baltimore, Maryland and Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, (a translation by Robert Baldick of L’Education sentimentale , Paris ,1869 · Film Comment, Vol. 10, No. 6, 'An Interview with Louis Malle' by John H. Dorr
Filmography (29)
Le Feu Follet
Damage
Au Revoir les Enfants
Elevator to the Gallows
Vanya on 42nd Street
May Fools
… And the Pursuit of Happiness
Alamo Bay
God's Country
Crackers
My Dinner with Andre
Atlantic City
Pretty Baby
Black Moon
A Human Condition
Lacombe, Lucien
Place de la République
Murmur of the Heart
Calcutta
Spirits of the Dead
The Thief of Paris
Viva Maria!
The Fire Within
Vive Le Tour
A Very Private Affair
Zazie dans le Métro
The Lovers
The Silent World
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