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Rene Clair, René Chomette, René Després, Danceny
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René Clair was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. He went on to make some of the most innovative early sound films in France, before going abroad to work in the UK and USA for more than a decade. Returning to France after World War II, he continued to make films that were characterised by their elegance and wit, often presenting a nostalgic view of French life in earlier years. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. Clair's best known films include The Italian Straw Hat (1928), Under the Roofs of Paris (1930), Le Million (1931), À nous la liberté (1931), I Married a Witch (1942), and And Then There Were None (1945). In 1924, while Clair was working on Ciné-sketch for the theatre with France Picabia, he first met a young actress, Bronja Perlmutter, who subsequently appeared in his film Le Voyage imaginaire (1926) premiered at the newly opened Studio des Ursulines. They married in 1926, and their son, Jean-François, was born in 1927. René Clair died at home on 15 March 1981, and he was buried privately at Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. Clair's reputation as a film-maker underwent a considerable reevaluation during the course of his own lifetime: in the 1930s he was widely seen as one of France's greatest directors, alongside Renoir and Carné, but thereafter his work's artifice and detachment from the realities of life fell increasingly from favour. The avant-gardism of his first films, and especially Entr'acte, had given him a temporary notoriety, and a grounding in surrealism continued to underlie much of his comedy work. It was however the imaginative manner in which he overcame his initial scepticism about the arrival of sound which established his originality, and his first four sound films brought him international fame. Clair's years of working in the UK and USA made him still more widely known but did not show any marked development in his style or thematic concerns. It was in the post-war films that he made on his return to France that some critics have observed a new maturity and emotional depth, accompanied by a prevailing sense of melancholy but still framed by the elegance and wit that characterised his earlier work. However, in the 1950s the critics who heralded the arrival of the French New Wave, especially those associated with Cahiers du Cinéma, found Clair's work old-fashioned and academic. The paradox of Clair's reputation has been further heightened by those commentators who have seen François Truffaut as the French cinema's true successor to Clair, notwithstanding the occasions of their mutual disdain.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1898-11-11
- event Death Date 1981-03-15
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 3.1
- info Birth Place Paris, France
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René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
2021-02-09
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Lily of Life
1920-01-01
7.2
Laugh with Max Linder
1963-11-22
5
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
2012-10-14
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À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969-01-01
8
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
2019-06-05
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Civilisation: L'homme et les images
1967-01-01
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Parisette
1921-01-01
8
Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12
6
Midi trente
1972-03-06
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978-09-24
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Cinépanorama
1956-02-04
movie_edit Directing
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And Then There Were None
1945-10-31
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And Then There Were None
1945-10-31
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It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
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It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
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It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
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À Nous la Liberté
1931-12-18
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À Nous la Liberté
1931-12-18
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I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
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I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
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Le Million
1931-02-04
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Le Million
1931-02-04
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Entr'acte
1924-12-04
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Entr'acte
1924-12-04
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The Flame of New Orleans
1941-07-07
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The Flame of New Orleans
1941-07-07
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Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
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Beauties of the Night
1952-11-14
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Two Timid Souls
1928-12-04
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The Crazy Ray
1925-01-01
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The Crazy Ray
1925-01-01
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The Grand Manoeuvre
1955-10-26
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The Imaginary Voyage
1926-04-30
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The Gates of Paris
1957-09-27
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La Tour
1928-01-02
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Under the Roofs of Paris
1930-04-28
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Under the Roofs of Paris
1930-04-28
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The Beauty of the Devil
1950-03-16
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The Beauty of the Devil
1950-03-16
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The Italian Straw Hat
1928-01-13
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All the Gold in the World
1961-11-01
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Love and the Frenchwoman
1960-09-16
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Love and the Frenchwoman
1960-09-16
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The Ghost Goes West
1935-12-17
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The Ghost Goes West
1935-12-17
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Silence Is Golden
1947-05-21
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The Flame of New Orleans
1941-07-07
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The Four Truths
1962-12-21
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July 14
1933-01-13
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July 14
1933-01-13
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The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge
1925-03-13
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The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge
1925-03-13
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The Italian Straw Hat
1928-01-13
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Break the News
1938-01-02
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The Last Billionaire
1934-10-16
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Break the News
1938-01-02
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All the Gold in the World
1961-11-01
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All the Gold in the World
1961-11-01
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The Imaginary Voyage
1926-04-30
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The Last Billionaire
1934-10-16
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The Grand Manoeuvre
1955-10-26
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Fire Over England
1937-03-05
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The Prey of the Wind
1927-05-12
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À Nous la Liberté
1931-12-18
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Silence Is Golden
1947-05-21
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Silence Is Golden
1947-05-21
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The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge
1925-03-13
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The Lace Wars
1965-12-01
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Love and the Frenchwoman
1960-09-16
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The Grand Manoeuvre
1955-10-26
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The Midnight Chimes
1924-02-22
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La Tour
1928-01-02
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Entr'acte
1924-12-04
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The Crazy Ray
1925-01-01
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The Crazy Ray
1925-01-01
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The Lace Wars
1965-12-01
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Ferraille et chiffons
1972-11-03
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Beauties of the Night
1952-11-14
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Beauties of the Night
1952-11-14
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Beauties of the Night
1952-11-14
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Beauties of the Night
1952-11-14
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The Four Truths
1962-12-21
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I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
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The Prey of the Wind
1927-05-12
8
Two Timid Souls
1928-12-04
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The Gates of Paris
1957-09-27
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The Gates of Paris
1957-09-27
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The Gates of Paris
1957-09-27
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Miss Europe
1930-08-01
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Miss Europe
1930-08-01