Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Henri-Georges Clouzot (November 20, 1904 - January 12, 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
Henri-Georges Clouzot is born in Niort, Deux-Sèvres. After classical studies, he first attempt to be a journalist. He started in the cinema with L'assassin habite au 21 (1942), with Pierre Fresnay and Suzy Delair, he then produce during the German Occupation a movie on the denouncement, le Corbeau (1943), that leads at the Libération, in 1944 to strong polemics whether it was a resistance or a collaboration act. After this scandal, Clouzot is temporarily suspended from his professional activities in 1945. Back to the film direction, he won some rewards at the festivals of Venice and Cannes with Quai des orfèvres (1947), Manon (1949), Le Salaire de la peur (1952), all these films had a great success with audiences.
A moviemaker in a classical style, Clouzot was moved by a kind of perfectionism that sometimes tyrannize his actors. Moralist with a pessimistic view on society, he is also the director of other reknown films such as Les Diaboliques (1954), a thriller that presents an ambivalent and ambiguous couple interpreted by Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot, suspected of having murdered the husband of the second (Paul Meurisse) by a detective of an implacable logic (Charles Vanel); Le Mystère Picasso (1956), a great documentary on the method of the painter and the birth of few of his paintings. ; and La Vérité (1960), where Brigitte Bardot find her best dramatical role.
Henri-Georges Clouzot died in Paris on January 12, 1977.
In 1994, with L'Enfer, Claude Chabrol has resume the screenplay of a movie that Clouzot could not finish 30 years before.
Filmography (director)
- La Prisonnière 1968
- Grands chefs d'orchestre 1966
- La Vérité 1960
- Les Espions 1957
- Le Mystère Picasso 1956
- Les Diaboliques (Diabolique) 1954
- Le Salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear) 1952
- Retour à la vie 1949
- Miquette et sa mère 1949
- Manon 1948
- Quai des orfèvres 1947
- Le Corbeau 1943
- L'assassin habite au 21 1942
External links
- IMDb entry on Henri-Georges Clouzot (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167241/)
- page on Henri-Georges Clouzot, in English (http://frenchfilms.topcities.com/nf_hgclouzot.html)
- page on Henri-Georges Clouzot, in French (more complete) (http://members.aol.com/cinefilie/clouzot.htm)