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Diary Of A Country Priest
''Diary of a Country Priest'' (french: Journal d'un curé de campagne) is a 1951 French drama film written and directed by Robert Bresson, and starring Claude Laydu in his debut film performance. A faithful adaptation of Georges Bernanos' novel of the same name, which had won the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1936, it tells the story of a sickly young Catholic priest who has been assigned a small village in northern France as his first parish. The film was lauded for Laydu's performance, which has been called one of the greatest in the history of cinema, and won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize at the Venice International Film Festival and the Prix Louis Delluc. Plot In the small village of Ambricourt, the new parish priest keeps a diary, which he can be seen writing in and heard reading from throughout the film. Due to an undiagnosed stomach ailment, he has excluded meat and vegetables from his diet and primarily subsists on cheap wine with sugar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, Ellipsis (narrative device), ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of Minimalism, minimalist film. Much of his work is known for being tragic in story and nature. Bresson is among the most highly regarded filmmakers of all time. He has the highest number of films (seven) that made the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll of the 250 greatest films ever made. His works ''A Man Escaped'' (1956), ''Pickpocket (film), Pickpocket'' (1959) and ''Au Hasard Balthazar'' (1966) were ranked among the top 100, and other films like ''Mouchette'' (1967) and ''L'Argent (1983 film), L'Argent'' (1983) also received many votes. Jean-Luc Godard once wrote, "He is the French cinema, as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, and the main city of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper had a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over , had a population of 1,510,079 that same year (Jan. 2019 census), the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. The city of Lille and 94 suburban French municipalities have formed since 2015 the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Bazin
André Bazin (; 18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. Bazin started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine '' Cahiers du cinéma'' in 1951, with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. He is notable for arguing that realism is the most important function of cinema. His call for objective reality, deep focus, and lack of montage are linked to his belief that the interpretation of a film or scene should be left to the spectator. This placed him in opposition to film theory of the 1920s and 1930s, which emphasized how the cinema could manipulate reality. Life Bazin was born in Angers, France in 1918. He met future film and television producer Janine Kirsch while working at Labour and Culture, a militant organization associated with the French Communist party during World War II and eventually they married in 1949 and had a son named Florent. He died in 1958, age 40, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After a career of more than 25 years, he remains an icon of the Cinema of France, French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film ''The 400 Blows'' (1959) is a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and has four sequels, ''Antoine et Colette'' (1962), ''Stolen Kisses'' (1968), ''Bed and Board (1970 film), Bed and Board'' (1970), and ''Love on the Run (1979 film), Love on the Run'' (1979). Truffaut's 1973 film ''Day for Night (film), Day for Night'' earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other notable films include ''Shoot the Piano Player'' (1960), ''Jules and Jim'' (1962), ''The Soft Skin'' (1964), ''The Wild Child'' (1970), ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Bost
Pierre Bost (5 September 1901, Lasalle, Gard – 6 December 1975, Paris) was a French screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. Primarily a novelist until the 1940s, he was known mainly as a screenwriter after 1945, often collaborating with Jean Aurenche. In his 1954 article ''Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français'' ("A Certain Trend of French Cinema"), François Truffaut attacked the current state of French films, singling out certain screenwriters and producers. The screenwriting team of Bost and Aurenche were criticized for their style of literary adaptations in particular, which Truffaut considered old-fashioned. The journalist Jacques-Laurent Bost was Pierre Bost's brother. Selected filmography * ''The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * '' The Trump Card'' (1942) * '' La Symphonie Pastorale'' (1946) * '' Patrie'' (1946) * '' Devil in the Flesh'' (1947) * ''The Seventh Door'' (1947) * ''The Glass Castle'' (1950) * ''God Needs Men'' (1950) * '' The Red Inn'' (1951) * ''Forbidden Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Aurenche
Jean Aurenche (11 September 1904 – 29 September 1992) was a French screenwriter. During his career, he wrote 80 films for directors such as René Clément, Bertrand Tavernier, Marcel Carné, Jean Delannoy and Claude Autant-Lara. He is often associated with the screenwriter Pierre Bost, with whom he had a fertile partnership from 1940 to 1975. The Early Years In the 1920s and 1930s, Jean Aurenche was friends with some members of the surrealist groups. His sister Marie-Berthe was the wife of Max Ernst and Max Ernst soon became friend with Jean Aurenche. Later, he even appeared in some film commercials directed by Jean Aurenche (for the "Nicolas" Wine, the "Barbes" stores and so on...). Jean Aurenche was also a close friend of Jean Cocteau who helped him publish several of his short stories in the famous "NRF". In 1933, Jean Aurenche co-directed two short documentaries with Pierre Charbonnier: ''Pirates du Rhône'' and ''Bracos de Sologne''. He later co-wrote the short film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Maurey
Nicole Maurey (20 December 1925 – 11 March 2016) was a French actress, who appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1945 and 1997. Life and career Born in Bois-Colombes, a northwestern suburb of Paris, Maurey was originally a dancer before being cast in her first film role in 1944. In 1953 Maurey appeared opposite Bing Crosby in ''Little Boy Lost (1953 film), Little Boy Lost'' that was filmed in France. The following year Universal-International brought Nicole Maurey from France, Gia Scala from Italy and Myriam Verbeeck from Belgium to the United States to test for the role of Mary Magdelene in an unproduced Biblical epic ''The Galileans''. She remains most noted as Charlton Heston's leading lady in ''Secret of the Incas'' (1954), often cited as the primary inspiration for ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981). She starred in films with Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Jeff Chandler (actor), Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Rex Harrison, Robert Taylor (Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbot
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The female equivalent is abbess. Origins The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery. The word is derived from the Aramaic ' meaning "father" or ', meaning "my father" (it still has this meaning in contemporary Hebrew: אבא and Aramaic: ܐܒܐ) In the Septuagint, it was written as "abbas". At first it was employed as a respectful title for any monk, but it was soon restricted by canon law to certain priestly superiors. At times it was applied to various priests, e.g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the ' ("of the palace"') and ' ("of the camp") were chaplains to the Merovingian and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Borel
Adrien Borel (19 March 1886, in Paris – 19 September 1966, in Beaumont-lès-Valence Beaumont-lès-Valence (, literally ''Beaumont near Valence''; oc, Bèumont de Valença) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Drôme department The following is a list of the 36 ...) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. 1886 births 1966 deaths French psychiatrists French psychoanalysts Physicians from Paris {{France-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Etiévant
Yvette Etiévant (1922–2003) was a French actress. She starred in Yves Robert's '' War of the Buttons'' (''La Guerre des boutons'') in 1962. Filmography *1945: '' Les Dames du bois de Boulogne'' (directed by Robert Bresson) - La bonne *1949: ''Between Eleven and Midnight'' (directed by Henri Decoin) - La fille qui tapine sous le tunnel routier *1949: '' Le Point du jour'' (directed by Louis Daquin) *1949: '' Last Love'' (directed by Jean Stelli) - Lina Bell *1949: ''The Perfume of the Lady in Black'' (directed by Louis Daquin) - Une fille à la soirée chez Rouletabille *1950: '' Le Rosier de Madame Husson'' (directed by Jean Boyer) - Marie, la jeune paysanne *1951: ''Without Leaving an Address'' (directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois) - Adrienne Gauthier, la femme d'Emile, le chauffeur de taxi *1951: '' Topaze'' (directed by Marcel Pagnol) - La dactylo de Topaze *1951: '' Journal d'un curé de campagne'' (directed by Robert Bresson) - la femme de ménage *1951: ''Maître aprè ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Danet
Jean Danet (14 January 1924 – 15 October 2001) was a French actor. He appeared in 27 films between 1942 and 1983. Danet was born in Auray, Brittany, France. Following World War II, he began work in films. He founded Tréteaux de France in 1959.International Theatre Institute (1967). ''World theatre, Volume 16.'' Éditions Meddens Danet died in Paris. Filmography *'' Signé illisible'' (1942) Clément *'' Journal d'un curé de campagne'' (1951) Olivier * ''Deburau'' (1951) Armand Duval *'' Capitaine Ardant'' (1951) Idjilla *''Mon curé chez les riches'' (1952) Le vicomte Pierre de Sableuse *''La Putain respectueuse'' (1952) Un client du night-club *'' Deux de l'escadrille'' (1953) *'' La nuit est à nous'' (1953) Alain Brécourt * '' The Adventurer of Chad '' Alain de Blomette *''Si Versailles m'était conté'' (1954) Boufflers (uncredited) *'' Les révoltés de Lomanach'' (1954) de Varadec *''Napoléon'' (1955) (uncredited) Le général Gourgaud *'' Ça va barder'' (1955) D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Balpêtré
Antoine Balpêtré (3 May 1898 – 28 March 1963) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1933 and 1963. Partial filmography * '' The Agony of the Eagles'' (1933) - Le commandant Thiéry * '' The House of Mystery'' (1933) - Rudeberg * ''Gaspard de Besse'' (1935) - Cabasse * ''Le monde tremblera'' (1939) * ''Le duel'' (1941) - Le constructeur Bugnet * ''The Murderer Lives at Number 21'' (1942) - Albert, le ministre de l'Intérieur (uncredited) * ''Picpus'' (1943) - Le grand patron * ''La Main du diable'' (1943) - Denis * ''Le Corbeau'' (1943) - Le docteur Delorme * ''Le visiteur'' (1946) - Louberger * ''Fort de la solitude'' (1948) - Le commissaire * ''La figure de proue'' (1948) - Le père Morfouage * ''Paysans noirs'' (1948) - Le médecin * ''Fantomas Against Fantomas'' (1949) - Le président du conseil * '' Suzanne and the Robbers'' (1949) - Bevardel * ''Le paradis des pilotes perdus'' (1949) - Révérend-Père Spach * ''Millionaires fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
