Claude Sautet
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Born | Claude Marie Sautet (1924-02-23)23 February 1924 Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
Died | 22 July 2000(2000-07-22) (aged 76) Paris, France |
Occupation | Film director |
Claude Sautet (23 February 1924 – 22 July 2000) was a French film director and screenwriter.
He was a chronicler of post-war French society. He made a total of five films with his favorite actress Romy Schneider.
Biography
Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer. His first movie, Hello Smile! (originally Bonjour Sourire) was released in 1956.
He earned international attention with The Things of Life (Les choses de la vie, 1970), which he wrote and directed, like the rest of his later films. Featuring Michel Piccoli in the male lead, it was shown in competition at the 1970 Cannes Festival. The film also revived the career of Romy Schneider; she acted in several of Sautet's later films. In his next film Max and the Junkmen (Max et les Ferrailleurs, 1971) Schneider played a prostitute, while in César and Rosalie (César et Rosalie, 1972) she portrayed a married woman who copes with the reappearance of an old flame.
Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres, 1974) is one of Sautet's most acclaimed films. Four middle-class men meet in the country every weekend mainly to discuss their lives. As well as Piccoli, it featured Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, and Stéphane Audran. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian in a 2020 tribute article to Michel Piccoli thought it was "arguably the best" of the "five very well-regarded movies" on which the actor and director collaborated.[1] Sautet achieved even further critical success with Mado (1976).
His film A Simple Story (Une Histoire simple, 1978) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[2] The film featured Schneider again, this time as a dissatisfied working woman in her 40s. She won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance.
In the 1980s, he made only two films Waiter! (Garçon!, 1983), a drama starring Yves Montand as a middle-aged waiter, and the comedy A Few Days with Me (Quelques Jours Avec Moi, 1988).
Claude Sautet won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the César Award for Best Director for A Heart in Winter (Un cœur en hiver, 1992) and received the César once more for Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud, 1995). Both films starred Emmanuelle Béart. Apart from his own directing, he also wrote screenplays for other directors.
Claude Sautet died of liver cancer[3][4][5] in Paris in July 22, 2000 and was buried there in the Montparnasse Cemetery.
In 2001, from May 5th to July 14th, Canal Plus aired eleven of its feature films in their final versions, following the work done with Béatrice Valbin.[6]
Filmography
Director
- Bonjour sourire (1955)
- Classe tous risques (1960)
- L'arme à gauche (1965)
- Les choses de la vie (1970)
- Max et les ferrailleurs (1971)
- César et Rosalie (1972)
- Vincent, François, Paul et les autres (1974)
- Mado (1976)
- Une histoire simple (1978)
- Un mauvais fils (1980)
- Garçon! (1983)
- Quelques jours avec moi (1988)
- Un cœur en hiver (1992)
- Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Writer
- Les Yeux sans visage (1959), directed by Georges Franju (also first assistant director)
- Symphonie pour un massacre [fr] (1963), directed by Jacques Deray
- Peau de banane (1963), directed by Marcel Ophüls
- That Tender Age (1964), directed by Gilles Grangier
- Échappement libre (1964), directed by Jean Becker
- La Vie de château (1965), directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Mise à sac [fr] (1967), directed by Alain Cavalier
- Borsalino (1970), directed by Jacques Deray
- Les Mariés de l'an II (1971), directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Mon ami le traître (1988), directed by José Giovanni
Other
- Patrick Dewaere (1992), documentary of Marc Esposito
References
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter. "Michel Piccoli: a fierce, strong performer who became the object of cinephile fan-worship". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
- ^ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^ "Claude Sautet, 76, French Film Director, Dies". The New York Times. 28 July 2000.
- ^ "Obituary: Claude Sautet". 26 July 2000.
- ^ Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2000: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. 2008. ISBN 9780786452057.
- ^ "Ecrans fragiles". Le Monde.
External links
- Claude Sautet at IMDb
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
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- 1976 Bertrand Tavernier
- 1977 Joseph Losey
- 1978 Alain Resnais
- 1979 Christian de Chalonge
- 1980 Roman Polanski
- 1981 François Truffaut
- 1982 Jean-Jacques Annaud
- 1983 Andrzej Wajda
- 1984 Ettore Scola
- 1985 Claude Zidi
- 1986 Michel Deville
- 1987 Alain Cavalier
- 1988 Louis Malle
- 1989 Jean-Jacques Annaud
- 1990 Bertrand Blier
- 1991 Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- 1992 Alain Corneau
- 1993 Claude Sautet
- 1994 Alain Resnais
- 1995 André Téchiné
- 1996 Claude Sautet
- 1997 Patrice Leconte / Bertrand Tavernier
- 1998 Luc Besson
- 1999 Patrice Chéreau
- 2000 Tonie Marshall
- 2001 Dominik Moll
- 2002 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- 2003 Roman Polanski
- 2004 Denys Arcand
- 2005 Abdellatif Kechiche
- 2006 Jacques Audiard
- 2007 Guillaume Canet
- 2008 Abdellatif Kechiche
- 2009 Jean-François Richet
- 2010 Jacques Audiard
- 2011 Roman Polanski
- 2012 Michel Hazanavicius
- 2013 Michael Haneke
- 2014 Roman Polanski
- 2015 Abderrahmane Sissako
- 2016 Arnaud Desplechin
- 2017 Xavier Dolan
- 2018 Albert Dupontel
- 2019 Jacques Audiard
- 2020 Roman Polanski
- 2021 Albert Dupontel
- 2022 Leos Carax
- 2023 Dominik Moll
- 2024 Justine Triet