Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).
Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.
His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."
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Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.
His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."
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Known For
20 titles
Cinépanorama
Breathless
Orpheus
Bluebeard
Le Combat dans l'île
Bob le Flambeur
Sign of the Lion
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Two Men in Manhattan
Code Name: Melville
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Belmondo, le magnifique
A Girl in a Pocket
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Les Rois de la comédie
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
