List of Popular French Filmmakers
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Jacques Cousteau
JacquesYves Cousteau AC was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He codeveloped the Aqualung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Acadmie franaise.....
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Patrice Ch reau
Patrice Chreau was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films La Reine Margot and Intimacy, and for his staging of the Jahrhundertring, the centenary Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. Winner of almost twenty movie awards, including the Cannes Jury Prize and the Golden Berlin Bear, Chreau served as president of the jury at the 2003 Cannes festival.....
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Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker.....
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Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles , and the films Blood of a Poet , Les Parents Terribles , Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus . His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, Mara Flix, dith P....
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Guy Debord
Guy Louis Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International . He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.....
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Alain Robbe Grillet
Alain RobbeGrillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend. Alain RobbeGrillet was elected a member of the Acadmie franaise on 25 March 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32. He was married to Catherine RobbeGrillet .....
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An mone
Anmone is a French actress, filmmaker and political activist. Her real name is Anne Bourguignon, and she was born in a family of the Haute Bourgeoisie. She took her stage name in 1968 from the title of her film debut in Philippe Garrels Anmone.....
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Brigitte Sy
Brigitte Sy is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France.....
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Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film. With the help of her husband and friend she founded a film company and directed a few commercial works before slowly moving into Impressionist and Surrealist territory. She is best known today for her Impressionist film, La Souria....
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Jean Pierre Darroussin
JeanPierre Darroussin is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France. His films include the 2004 thriller Red Lights.....
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Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann is a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah .....
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Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his fathers name and Perrin his mothers.....
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Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Acadmie franaise. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of Frances greatest 20thcentury writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every mediummemoir, novel, drama and film.....
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