René Clément

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René Clément
Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
1946 The Battle of the Rails
1949 Beyond the Gates
Golden Lion
1952 Forbidden Games

René Clément (French: [ʁəne klemɑ̃]; 18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing the films The Battle of the Rails (1946), Forbidden Games (1952), Gervaise (1956), Purple Noon (1960), and Is Paris Burning (1966). He received numerous accolades including five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and the Honorary César in 1984.

Early life

Clément studied architecture at the

Imam Yahya
.

Career

Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits). Clément had international success with several films but his star-studded 1966 epic Is Paris Burning?, written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Paul Graetz
was a costly box office failure.

He began directing Play Dirty (a.k.a. Written in the Sand) but quit early in production due to disputes with the film's producer Harry Saltzman.[1] He directed the thriller Joy House (1964) with Jane Fonda and Alain Delon.

In May 2023 On

sexually harassed her during the film's production telling her that the film involved a love scene and that she needed to sleep with him so that he could judge her orgasm. During the production he was 51 and she was 27.[2]

In 1973 he was a member of the jury at the

César Award
.

Personal life

Clément's second wife was Irish screenwriter Johanna Harwood whom he had met on the set of his 1954 film Monsieur Ripois.[4]

Death

Clément died on 17 March 1996, a day before his 83rd birthday and was buried in the local cemetery in Menton on the French Riviera where he had spent his years in retirement.

Films

Director

Actor

  • Plein soleil (1960) – Le serveur maladroit (uncredited)
  • The Joy of Living (1963) – French General
  • Yoroppa tokkyu (1984) – (final film role)

Accolades

  • 1946: International Jury Prize at the
    La Bataille du rail
     (Battle of the Rails)
  • 1949:
    Au-delà des grilles
    (The Walls of Malapaga)
  • 1952: Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival – Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
  • 1952:
    New York Film Critics Circle Awards
    for Best Foreign Language Film – Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
  • 1953: BAFTA Award for Best Film – Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
  • 1954:
    Monsieur Ripois
    (Lover Boy)
  • 1956: Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival – Gervaise
  • 1956: BAFTA Award for Best Film – Gervaise

References

  1. ^ "Play Dirty". Filmfacts. 12: 90.
  2. ^ "Jane Fonda Plays Plead The Fifth WWHL". Youtube. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  3. ^ "8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
  4. ^ Field, Matthew (2012). "Johanna Harwood Interview". Movie Classics: A Cinema Retro Special Edition Magazine (4). Solo Publishing.

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