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French Directors
YGK These French Directors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Professional magician who pioneered techniques like dissolves and storyboards | Georges Méliès |
| The 1902 Méliès film featuring a space capsule landing in the eye of the moon | A Trip to the Moon |
| The inventors of the Cinématographe motion-picture camera and projector | Auguste and Louis Lumière |
| The 1895 film often regarded as representing the "birth of cinema" | Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory |
| The film rumored to have caused audiences to panic as a train approached the screen | L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat |
| Director of La Grande Illusion and son of a famous Impressionist painter | Jean Renoir |
| The 1939 satire of the French aristocracy considered one of the best films ever made | The Rules of the Game |
| Minimalist director known for using non-professional actors and Catholic themes | Robert Bresson |
| Bresson’s collection of aphorisms explaining his filmmaking approach | Notes on the Cinematograph |
| The 1966 Bresson film that follows the life of a donkey | Au Hasard Balthazar |
| Mime-turned-director who played the clumsy character Monsieur Hulot | Jacques Tati |
| The Tati film that serves as a satire of postwar French consumerism | Mon Oncle |
| Director renowned for gangster films like Le Cercle rouge and Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| The hitman protagonist of Le Samouraï played by Alain Delon | Jef Costello |
| Melville film about the French Resistance that was unpopular due to its depiction of Charles de Gaulle | Army of Shadows |
| Left Bank director of Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais |
| The author who wrote the screenplay for Hiroshima mon amour | Marguerite Duras |
| Resnais’s 1956 documentary about Nazi death camps | Night and Fog |
| Director of La Pointe Courte, often cited as the first New Wave film | Agnès Varda |
| Varda film that follows a singer in real time while she awaits medical results | Cléo from 5 to 7 |
| Pioneer of the New Wave who famously used jump cuts in Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard |
| The actress and wife of Godard who starred in films like Alphaville and Pierrot le Fou | Anna Karina |
| Director who married Agnès Varda and made colorful, music-heavy films | Jacques Demy |
| The 1964 Demy musical starring Catherine Deneuve where every line is sung | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg |
| Director of The 400 Blows and co-founder of the New Wave | François Truffaut |
| The recurring character and alter-ego of Truffaut played by Jean-Pierre Léaud | Antoine Doinel |
| The theory articulated by Truffaut stating a director is the "author" of a film | Auteur theory |
| Contemporary filmmaker whose work is heavily informed by her upbringing in France’s African colonies | Claire Denis |
| The 1988 debut feature by Claire Denis inspired by her childhood in Africa | Chocolat |
| The Claire Denis film loosely based on Herman Melville’s novel Billy Budd | Beau Travail |
| The protagonist and Adjudant-Chef in the French Foreign Legion played by Denis Lavant in Beau Travail | Galoup |
| The 2018 sci-fi film starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche about criminals on a space mission | High Life |
| The 2008 Claire Denis film created as an homage to Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu | 35 Shots of Rum |
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