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French Directors

YGK These French Directors

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The magician-turned-director who made A Trip to the Moon and pioneered the use of storyboards Georges Méliès
The iconic shot from Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon A space capsule landing in the eye of the moon
The brothers who invented the Cinématographe and screened the first films in December 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière
The 46-second Lumière film often cited as the birth of cinema Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon
The director of La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game and son of a famous painter Jean Renoir
The future director employed as a location scout by Jean Renoir for the film The River Satyajit Ray
The minimalist director of Pickpocket and Au Hasard Balthazar who used non-professional actors Robert Bresson
The 1956 Bresson film influenced by his own experience as a prisoner of war A Man Escaped
The director who played the clumsy, overcoated character Monsieur Hulot Jacques Tati
The Tati film set in a futuristic Paris that satirizes consumerism Playtime
The director of Le Samouraï known for his influential films noir and gangster films Jean-Pierre Melville
The 1969 Melville film about the French Resistance that was initially unpopular due to its depiction of Charles de Gaulle Army of Shadows
The "Left Bank" director who collaborated with Marguerite Duras on Hiroshima mon amour Alain Resnais
The 1961 Resnais film featuring a man trying to convince a woman they previously had an affair at the title location Last Year at Marienbad
The female filmmaker whose 1955 debut La Pointe Courte is often called the first New Wave film Agnès Varda
The Varda film that follows a singer in real time as she awaits cancer test results Cléo from 5 to 7
The pioneer of the jump cut whose 1960 film Breathless revolutionized cinema Jean-Luc Godard
The actress married to Jean-Luc Godard who starred in A Woman is a Woman and Alphaville Anna Karina
The 2014 experimental 3D film directed by Jean-Luc Godard Goodbye to Language
The director of the musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg who was married to Agnès Varda Jacques Demy
The co-founder of the New Wave who directed The 400 Blows and developed "auteur theory" François Truffaut
The recurring character in five Truffaut films, starting with The 400 Blows, who serves as the director's alter-ego Antoine Doinel
The 1973 metafictional Truffaut film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Day for Night
The contemporary French filmmaker whose upbringing in African colonies informed films like Chocolat and White Material Claire Denis
The 1999 Claire Denis film set in Djibouti that is loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Beau Travail
The actor who starred as Adjudant-Chef Galoup in Beau Travail and alongside Robert Pattinson in High Life Denis Lavant
The 2018 science fiction film by Claire Denis starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche High Life
The Claire Denis film from 2008 that serves as an homage to Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu 35 Shots of Rum
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