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Claude Autant-Lara

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Autant-Lara, Claude 

Born Aug. 5, 1903, in Luzarches, department of Val d’Oise. French film director.

Autant-Lara studied at a school for state design. He first worked in films in 1919 as a costume designer and set designer, later becoming an assistant director and then director. Under the influence of the avant-garde (a trend in French cinema), Autant-Lara made a number of experimental films. In 1930 he shot one of the first wide-screen movies, To Build a Fire (based on a story by J. London).

Autant-Lara’s first sound film was the comedy Chives (1933). During World War II he made the films Chiffon’s Marriage (1941), Love Letters (1942), and Gentle (1943), which were distinguished for their poetic sensitivity in conveying the psychological experiences of their heroes and for their dramatic presentation of events from the beginning of the century.

Social concern and antiwar protest characterize Autant-Lara’s postwar films, including The Devil in the Flesh (1947), Crossing Paris(\956), Thou Shalt Not Kill (1963), and Potatoes (1969). Among his best works is a film version of Stendhal’s novel The Red and the Black (1954). Autant-Lara also filmed the musical comedy Take Care of Amelia (1947), the tragicomedy The Red Inn (1951), and the melodrama Love Is My Profession (1958).
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It was also in the mid-1950s that Truffaut, then a young writer for the Cahiers who also directed "Shoot The Piano-Player," attacked the great French filmmakers of the time -- Claude Autant-Lara or Marc Allegret -- as a bunch of "bourgeois people making bourgeois films for the bourgeoisie.
Did France's 'New Wave' shoot its cinema? by Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
It was also in the mid-1950s that Truffaut, then a young writer for the Cahiers who also directed "Shoot The Piano-Player", attacked the great French film-makers of the time -- Claude Autant-Lara or Marc Allegret -- as a bunch of "bourgeois people making bourgeois films for the bourgeoisie".
Did France's 'New Wave' shoot its cinema? by AFP / AFP Global Edition
In July 1989, former film director Claude Autant-Lara became doyen and delivered a speech at the opening session to a chamber which was largely empty as a sign of protest.
Move to stop Le Pen presiding at EU parliament by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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