Marcel Carné

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Marcel Carné
Carné in 1950
Born
Marcel Albert Carné

(1906-08-18)18 August 1906
Paris, France
Died31 October 1996(1996-10-31) (aged 90)
Clamart, France
Years active1936–1976

Marcel Albert Carné (French:

Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the great films of all time
.

Biography

Born in

La kermesse héroïque
(1935).

Feyder accepted an invitation to work in England for

Le Jour Se Lève in 1939."[5]

Under the

Les Portes de la nuit
, was panned by the critics and a box-office failure and was their last completed film.

By the 1950s, Carné's reputation was in eclipse. The critics of

Cahiers du cinéma, who became the film makers of the New Wave, dismissed him and placed his films' merits solely with Prévert.[6] Other than his 1958 hit Young Sinners (Les Tricheurs), Carné's postwar films met with only uneven success and many were greeted by an almost unrelenting negative criticism from the press and within members of the film industry. In 1958, Carné was the Head of the Jury at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.[7] His 1971 film Law Breakers was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival.[8]
Carné made his last film in 1976.

Carné was openly

homosexual. Several of his later films contain references to male homosexuality or bisexuality. His one-time partner was Roland Lesaffre
, who appeared in many of his films.

Edward Baron Turk has published a biography of Carné titled Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema.[9]

Marcel Carné died in 1996 in

Cimetière Saint-Vincent in Montmartre
.

Filmography as director

References

  1. ^ "Article in French explaining the trouble of the date of birth of Marcel Carné". Archived from the original on 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
  2. ^ Gary Arnold "Vaults: Remembering Marcel Carne", Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine The Washington Times, 9 August 2009
  3. ^ Riding, Alan (1 November 1996). "Marcel Carne, Film Director, Dies at 90". New York Times.
  4. ^ a b Richard Roud "Marcel Carné and Jacques Prevert" in Roud Cinema: A Critical Dictionary: Volume One, Aldrich to King, London: Secker & Warburg, 1980, p.189-92, 189, 191
  5. ^ Vincendeau, Ginette (May 7, 2019). "How the French birthed film noir". Sight and Sound. British Film Institute.
  6. ^ Gilbert Adair and Mike Goodridge Obituary: Marcel Carné, The Independent, 1 November 1996
  7. ^ "6th Berlin International Film Festival: Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
  8. ^ "7th Moscow International Film Festival (1971)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2014-04-03. Retrieved 2012-12-23.
  9. OCLC 924961039
    .
  10. ISBN 2-84114-010-5
    .

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