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| native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = 192313|df=yes}}| birth_place = 2016197df=yes}}| death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = | language = French people>French| citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = film director journalist, novelist | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = René Clair Award| signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }}Alexandre Astruc ({{IPA-fr|astʁyk|lang}}; 13 July 1923 – 19 May 2016) was a French film critic and film director.NEWS,www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/23/alexandre-astruc-obituary, Alexandre Astruc obituary, Ronald Bergan, The Guardian, 23 May 2016,

Biography

Before becoming a film director, he was a journalist, novelist and film critic.Martin, Marcel (1971) France. London: A. Zwemmer; p. 11 His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion of the caméra-stylo or “camera-pen” and the idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens.Alexandre Astruc, “The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo,” in The New Wave, ed. Peter Graham, pp. 17-23. Trans. from “Naissance d’une nouvelle avant-garde: la caméra-stylo,” L’Écran Français 144, 30 March 1948.WEB,www.newwavefilm.com/about/camera-stylo-astruc.shtml, The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo, Astruc, Alexandre, 1948, New Wave Film, 2018-03-02, In 1994, he was awarded the René Clair Award for his whole body of film work.

Selected filmography

(s) indicates films also co-scripted by Astruc

• 1949: Ulysse ou Les mauvaises rencontres also known as Aller et retour, a short film; Astruc also wrote the scenario
• 1952: The Crimson Curtain (s) (Le rideau cramoisi)
• 1952: La Putain respectueuse
• 1955: Les Mauvaises rencontres (s)
• 1957: Amour de poche
• 1958: Une vie (s)
• 1960: La proie pour l’ombre (s)
• 1962: {{Interlanguage link multi|L’Éducation sentimentale (film)|fr|3=L’Éducation sentimentale (film, 1962)|lt=L’Éducation sentimentale}}
• 1964: The Pit and the Pendulum (Le Puits et le Pendule)
• 1966: {{Interlanguage link multi|La Longue Marche|fr|3=La Longue Marche (film)|lt=La Longue Marche}} (s)
• 1968: {{Interlanguage link multi|Flammes sur l’Adriatique|fr}} (s)
• 1976: Sartre par lui même

Publications

• 1945: Les Vacances, Gallimard
• 1975: Ciel de cendres, Le Sagittaire
• 1975: La tête la première, Olivier Orban
• 1977: Le Serpent jaune, Gallimard
• 1979: Quand la chouette s’envole, Gallimard
• 1982: Le Permissionnaire, Éditions de la Table ronde, Paris
• 1989: Le roman de Descartes, Éditions Balland
• 1992: Du stylo à la caméra et de la caméra au stylo: Écrits (1942–1984), Éditions de l’Archipel
• 1993: L’autre versant de la colline, Écriture
• 1994: Évariste Galois, Groupe Flammarion
• 1997: Le Siècle à venir, Éditions Trédaniel
• 2015: Le plaisir en toutes choses (with Noël Simsolo), Éditions Neige/Écriture

References

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Bibliography

• Raymond Bellour, Alexandre Astruc, Paris, Seghers, Collection Cinéma d’aujourd’hui, 1963.
• Philippe François, « Alexandre Astruc », in Patrick Cabanel and André Encrevé (dir.), Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours, tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015, (p. 105) {{ISBN|978-2846211901}}

External links

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• Alexandre Astruc on NewWaveFilm.com
• {{IMDb name|0040150}}
• Foco - Revista de Cinema, special edition devoted to Alexandre Astruc

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