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| Georges
Franju |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter |
| 1912 - 1987 |
| Born April 12,
Fougeres, Ille-et-Villaine, Bretagne, France |
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Key Production Country: France |
| Key Genres:
Documentary, Short Film,
Gothic Film |
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Collaborators: Marcel Fradetal
(Cinematographer), Maurice Jarre (Composer), Edith Scob (Leading
Player), Gilbert Natot (Editor) |
| Highly Recommended: Eyes
without a Face (1959), Judex (1963) |
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Recommended: Le Sang des bętes (1949), Hotel des Invalides
(1952) |
| Links:
[
IMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Encylopedia of European Cinema Brief Biography ] [ Strictly
Film School ] [
Wikipedia ] [
BBC Biography ] [
IMDB ] |
| Books:
[ Franju:
Movie Edition ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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1,000 Greatest Films: Le
Sang des bętes (1949), Eyes without a Face (1959) |
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"Georges Franju combined realism and fantasy, poetry and
polemics, savagery and tenderness to unique effect. Imbuing his
films with a surrealist's antipathy to established notions of
normality, he was one of cinema's most fiercely independent
visionaries...His surrealism was not a matter of artifice, but
of a highly personal vision that was at once elegant, horrific,
provocative, becalmed and nostalgic." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"Franju's career
falls clearly into two parts, marked by the format of the films:
the early period of documentary shorts, and a subsequent period
of fictional features. The parts are connected by many links of
theme, imagery attitude, and iconography." -
Robin Wood (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,
1991) |
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"Some reckon him one of the greatest of all French film
directors; others don't reckon him all. Franju is cult material
par excellence, and from his first bravura documentary release,
Le Sang Des Bętes (1949), in which he casts an unswerving
eye on the brutal business of meat slaughtering, it was obvious
that Franju was not to be conveniently filed and docketed. A
co-founder of the French national film archive, he alternately
stimulates and shocks, as for example, with his sensationally
surreal horror classic Eyes without a Face." -
Mario Reading (The Movie Companion, 2006) |
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"First known as a documentarian, Franju has contributed some
fine horror and suspense films." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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