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Alexandre Astruc

Alexandre Astruc

Film director and critic.

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Movies Made By Alexandre Astruc (20)

Savage Souls (2001)

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes th ...

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Albert Savarus (1993)

Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is deeply in love with another woman. ...

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The Fall of the House of Usher (1981)

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline's wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Alain arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his brid ...

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The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1980)

An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer. ...

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Sartre by Himself (1976)

Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited in the Pléiade edition and about whom he has written several books. With Alexander Astruc, he made the fi ...

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The Purloined Letter (1974)

Part of a 6-film collection called "Grands Détectives" about famous fictional private detectives. ...

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Introduction à la Méthode de F. W. Murnau (1970)

A "Cinéastes de notre temps" series episode directed by french film critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc, originally aired sometime around 1970. ...

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Adriatic Sea of Fire (1968)

The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a mutiny to keep fighting when the commander is ordered to surrender. ...

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Long March (1966)

In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He recognizes the man, minister of the Third Republic, called Morel by his companions. Carnot, the chief of t ...

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Évariste Galois (1965)

Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night. ...

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The Pit and the Pendulum (1964)

A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition... ...

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Bassae (1964)

"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon's glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no white marble, no nothing. All Greek temples are dedicated to Apollo etc, and this particular one was not dedicated ...

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Sentimental Education (1962)

Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in love with Frédéric and in order to keep him away from Anne, pu ...

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Shadows of Adultery (1961)

Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn't this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover s ...

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End of Desire (1958)

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only h ...

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Bad Liaisons (1955)

Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients. ...

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The Count of Bragelonne (1954)

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin. ...

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The Crimson Curtain (1953)

A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold p ...

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Les Crimes de l'amour (1953)

Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, who evokes a strange adventure. Staying with an old couple, he acts as acquaintance with Albertine ...

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The Respectful Prostitute (1952)

Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sid ...

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Movies Starring Alexandre Astruc (5)

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993)

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the u ...

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Charlotte (1974)

Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and wh ...

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A Girl in a Pocket (1957)

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Som ...

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Paris Waltz (1950)

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider. ...

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Rendezvous in July (1949)

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians. ...

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