Alain Corneau

Alain Corneau , born the August 7th 1943 with Meung-sur-Loire (France), is a Réalisateur French.

Biography

He would have liked to make a career in the Jazz but he makes studies of Cinéma. Fascinated by the American cinema, it nevertheless illustrated a rather vast range of kinds, large epic fresco of Fort Saganne with psychology intimist of the blue Mots , where confrontation with the other attends it or with a different country always illustrate a search of identity and oneself.

The beginning of its career is marked by the kind Policier, marrying a construction and a blackness often considered as homages to the American Black film, but by digging psychologies there. After three estimable business successes, it carries out a film blow-of-fist, Black series , thanks to a direction of actor (Patrick Dewaere, Marie Trintignant, Myriam Boyer, Bernard Blier), who left his mark in the French cinema.

It adapts then a historical novel of Louis Gardel: Fort Saganne , and realizes what is at the time film expensive of the French cinema, with a head of prestigious poster, and a direction epic and duration, in spite of difficult conditions of turnings in the desert Mauritania N.

It changes atmosphere radically, of place and scale to adapt the Nocturne Indian of Antonio Tabucchi: the India, a light team and a budget, a intimist treatment completely allow him conascrer with a topic already in filigree in her preceding films: blur around the identity and the searches never benign to escape and be from it finally.

With Every morning of the world , according to a novel of Pascal Quignard, whose music is the first character, it meets a public and critical success unexpected, on a somewhat austere subject (history of a violist at the 17th century) treaty without emphase, with Jean-Pierre Marielle with against-employment.

It carries out a new diving in a foreign world, Japan board this time, with its adaptation of Stupeur and tremors of the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb, whose heroin seems to show a riper identity and a better retreat on its environment than the heroes of its first films.

In 2004, the whole of its cinematographic work is distinguished by the Prix Rene Clair.

Catalog of films

See too

  • Alain Corneau on IMDb

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