Jacqueline Audry

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Jacqueline Audry
Born25 September 1908
Orange, Vaucluse, France
Died22 June 1977(1977-06-22) (aged 68)
Poissy, Yvelines, France
OccupationFilm director
Years active1946–1973
SpousePierre Laroche

Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations.[1] She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war France.[2]

Biography

Audry was born in

La Femis).[4][5] The end of World War II and the liberation of France provided increased opportunities for women, but they still faced prejudice in the film industry.[4]

Audry's first

Sombre dimanche[4] (1948). In the 1940s and 1950s, she directed three films based on Colette novels; Gigi (1949), Minne (1950) and Mitsou (1956), all three with actress Danièle Delorme. Mitsou, which featured sex outside of marriage, was heavily censored.[5]

Audry directed The Pit of Loneliness (

BAFTA award for Best Foreign Actress for her part as Mlle. Julie, the headmistress.[7] The film has been called a "landmark of lesbian representation".[8] She frequently collaborated with her sister, the novelist and screenwriter Colette Audry.[9]

Audry's film style was traditional and at odds with the French New Wave.[5] Her films had a feminist slant however.[5] Many of them had central female characters and they often gave a radical view of gender roles and female sexuality.[2][5][10] Audry retired from feature films after Bitter Fruit (1967), but she co-directed with Wojciech Solarz a Polish-French miniseries of the life of Honoré de Balzac in 1973. Audry died in a road accident in Poissy, Yvelines, France in 1977.[9]

She was married to the screenwriter Pierre Laroche with whom she collaborated on film scripts on a number of occasions.

Filmography

Among the 16 films Audry directed were:[3]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-7190-4611-4
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    ISBN 0-8264-4742-2
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  3. ^ a b "Jacqueline Audry". Ciné-Ressources (in French). Retrieved 31 March 2008.
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    ISBN 1-85973-087-6
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    ISBN 0-313-28972-7
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    ISBN 0-304-33376-X
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  7. ^ "Film Nominations 1952". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  8. ISBN 0-8166-3456-4
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    ISBN 0-8386-4046-X
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  10. ISBN 1-84511-368-3
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External links
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