Claude Lelouch
French director, born in Paris in 1937.
Hidden in darkened cinemas during the Second World War, Claude Lelouch has been passionate about film since his childhood. He became a cameraman filming current events and created his production company Les Films 13 in 1960. Director of several self-produced feature films and of many scopitone films, he first tasted success with The Decadent Influence (1964). In 1966, A Man and a Woman won the Grand Prix at Cannes and two Oscars. Then followed a plethora of more than fifty films including L'Aventure, c'est l'aventure (1972), Bolero (1981), Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988), and Crossed Tracks (2007). He considers himself a director of auteur films for the people, and has worked with the biggest French stars, such as Jean-Louis Trintignant, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean Dujardin. In 2017, he made the choral film Everyone’s Life.Le Propre de l’homme (1960) – In the Affirmative (1962) – Une fille et des fusils (1965) – A Man and a Woman (1966) – Live For Life (1967) – Love Is a Funny Thing (1969) – The Crook (1970) – L’Aventure, c’est l’aventure (1972) – Happy New Year (1973) –Cat and Mouse (1975) – If I Had to Do It All Over Again (1976) – The Good and the Bad (1976) – Robert and Robert (1978) –Bolero (1981) – Edith and Marcel (1983) – Viva la vie (1984) – Partir, revenir (1985) – Attention bandits ! (1986) – Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988) – Il y a des jours… et des lunes (1990) – La Belle histoire (1992) – Tout ça pour ça (1992) – Les Misérables (1994) – Men, Women: A User's Manual (1996) – And now… Ladies and gentlemen (2002) – Roman de gare (2007) – Un + une (2015) – Every One's Life (2017) – The Best Years of the Life (2019) – L'amour c'est mieux que la vie (2021) – Tourner pour vivre (2022)