biography
pronunciation:
[frãzhü]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1912–87)
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| biography:
| Film-maker, born in Fougères, NW France. In 1936 he was co-founder with Henri Langlois of Cinémathèque Française. As a film-maker he specialized in adapting written works, such as those of Zola, Cocteau, and Mauriac. A precursor of the Nouvelle Vague, his films include Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962), Thomas l'Imposteur (1965), and La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1970). |
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