Claude Sautet
Director
39
Películas
3
Series
Claude Sautet (23 February 1924 – 22 July 2000) was a French film director and screenwriter.
He was a chronicler of post-war French society. He made a total of five films with his favorite actress Romy Schneider.
Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer. His first movie, Hello Smile! (originally Bonjour Sourire) was released in 1956.
He earned international attention with The Things of Life (Les choses de la vie, 1970), which he wrote and directed, like the rest of his later films. Featuring Michel Piccoli in the male lead, it was shown in competition at the 1970 Cannes Festival. The film also revived the career of Romy Schneider; she acted in several of Sautet's later films. In his next film Max and the Junkmen (Max et les Ferrailleurs, 1971) Schneider played a prostitute, while in César and Rosalie (César et Rosalie, 1972) she portrayed a married woman who copes with the reappearance of an old flame.
Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres, 1974) is one of Sautet's most acclaimed films. Four middle-class men meet in the country every weekend mainly to discuss their lives. As well as Piccoli, it featured Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, and Stéphane Audran. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian in a 2020 tribute article to Michel Piccoli thought it was "arguably the best" of the "five very well-regarded movies" on which the actor and director collaborated. Sautet achieved even further critical success with Mado (1976).
His film A Simple Story (Une Histoire simple, 1978) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film featured Schneider again, this time as a dissatisfied working woman in her 40s. She won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance.
In the 1980s, he made only two films Waiter! (Garçon!, 1983), a drama starring Yves Montand as a middle-aged waiter, and the comedy A Few Days with Me (Quelques Jours Avec Moi, 1988).
Claude Sautet won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the César Award for Best Director for A Heart in Winter (Un cœur en hiver, 1992) and received the César once more for Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud, 1995). Both films starred Emmanuelle Béart. Apart from his own directing, he also wrote screenplays for other directors.
Claude Sautet died of liver cancer in Paris in July 22, 2000 and was buried there in the Montparnasse Cemetery.
In 2001, from May 5th to July 14th, Canal Plus aired eleven of its feature films in their final versions, following the work done with Béatrice Valbin.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Sautet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Detrás de Cámaras
Los ojos sin rostro
Adaptation, Guionista, Assistant Director
Garçon !
Guionista, Director
Entre dos mujeres
Original Film Writer
Bonjour sourire
Director
César et Rosalie
Guionista, Director
Borsalino
Escritor
Les Choses de la vie
Director, Guionista
Un cœur en hiver
Director, Guionista
Max et les ferrailleurs
Guionista, Director
Nelly et Mr. Arnaud
Director, Guionista
Mado
Director, Guionista
Les Mariés de l'an deux
Escritor
Échappement libre
Escritor
Quelques jours avec moi
Director, Escritor
Classe tous risques
Adaptation, Director
Peau de banane
Guionista
Le fauve est lâché
Adaptation, Scenario Writer, Assistant Director
Sous le signe du taureau
Escritor
Le diable par la queue
Escritor, Adaptation
La Vie de château
Guionista
Vincent, François, Paul… et les autres
Director, Guionista
L'Arme à gauche
Director, Adaptation
Symphonie pour un massacre
Escritor
Une Histoire Simple
Director, Escritor
L'Âge ingrat
Guionista
Un mauvais fils
Guionista, Director
Le Dos au mur
Assistant Director
Les Révoltés de Lomanach
Assistant Director
Mise à sac
Guionista, Dialogue
L'Homme Que Nous Aimons Le Plus
Assistant Director
Como Actor/Actriz
Spécial cinéma
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Self (archive footage)
L'Extravagant Monsieur Piccoli
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Self (archive footage)
Romy, femme libre
Self (archive footage)
Claude Sautet : le calme et la dissonance
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Claude Sautet ou La magie invisible
Self (voice)