François de Lamothe (1928–2011) was a French

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. He designed the

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s on a number of productions between the 1950s and the 2000s, including

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Le Samouraï ''Le Samouraï'' (; ) is a 1967 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier. A Franco-Italian production, it depicts the intersecting pa ...

''.Powrie p.258 He was nominated four times for the César Award for Best Production Design.

Selected filmography

* '' Pierrot la tendresse'' (1960) * ''

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'' (1962) * '' How to Succeed in Love'' (1962) * ''

Hotel Paradiso ''Hotel Paradiso'' is a 1966 British comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panavision. It was directed by Peter Glenville and based on the play ''L'Hôtel du libre échange'' by Maurice Desvallières and Georges Feydeau. The film allowe ...

'' (1966) * '' Piaf'' (1974) * '' One, Two, Two : 122, rue de Provence'' (1978) * ''

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'' (1982) * ''

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'' (1985)

References

Bibliography

* Powrie, Phil. ''The Cinema of France''. Wallflower Press, 2006. * Sherry, Norman. ''The Life of Graham Greene: 1955-1991''. Penguin Books, 2005.

External links

* 1928 births 2011 deaths French art directors People from Meaux École des Beaux-Arts alumni Institut des hautes études cinématographiques alumni {{France-film-bio-stub fr:François de Lamothe