A Man and a Woman
We continue our series on actors and actresses by featuring a remarkable artist, whose filmography alone represents a significant contribution to the performing arts.
Winner of the Palme d'or, 1966 Cannes Film Festival
A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He started his career at the beginning of the French New Wave, but is rarely associated with it, even though he adopted some of its principles. He gained success in 1965 with Une fille et des fusils, followed the next year by Un homme et une femme, which brought him recognition both in France and internationally. In the 1980s and 1990s, he produced and directed grand romantic epics and emotional journeys, with broad, open and choral forms, like Les uns et les autres (1981), Partir, revenir (1985), and Les misérables (1995). He alternated these with resolutely optimistic, lighthearted comedies, lighter in form and substance, like Tout ça… pour ça ! (1993), Le courage d'aimer (2005), and Un plus une (2015). His filmmaking career has continued into the 2020s. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival for Un homme et une femme, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand prix du cinéma français for Vivre pour vivre, and was nominated twice for the César awards: once in 1982 for Best Film for Les uns et les autres, and a second time in 2002 for Best Film from the European Union for 11'09"01 - September 11.
