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Few directors have portrayed the agonies and epiphanies of growing up as poetically—and controversially—as Louis Malle. Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants tell stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Tragic, amusing, and poignant, these three films are more than just coming-of-age stories. They are the director’s ongoing response to a world gone wrong.
After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le métro, Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with The Fire Within (Le feu follet), a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows), in an implosive, haunted performance, plays Alain Leroy, a self-destructive writer who resolves to kill himself and spends the next twenty-four hours trying to reconnect with a host of wayward friends. Unsparing in its ...
In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline. Free of stereotypes about America’s “heartland,” _God’s Country,_ commissioned for American public television, is a stunning work of emotional and political clarity.
The Lovers: Directed by Louis Malle. With Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre, José Luis de Vilallonga. Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
As Pauline Kael once wrote of him, “The only quality common to the films of Louis Malle is the restless intelligence one senses in them.” Another characteristic one might mention is the director’s fearlessness in tackling controversial subject matter such as adultery ( Les Amants ), suicide ( Le Feu follet ), poverty ( Phantom India ), incest ( Le Souffle au coeur ), and Nazi collaboration ( Lacombe Lucien ).
Louis Malle (n. 30 octombrie 1932, Thumeries, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Franța – d. 23 noiembrie 1995, Beverly Hills, California, SUA) a fost un scenarist și regizor francez.
Nov 22, 2023 · French film director, screenwriter and producer Louis Malle in the cutting room of the movie Viva Maria! in 1965. Photo: Robert Siegler/INA/Getty. There comes a time in the life of most successful creative people when they feel the need for a new challenge. A novelist might write a memoir or a screen actor take on a stage role, for film ...
