Claude Autant-Lara

Known for DirectingBorn 1901-08-05Died 2000-02-05Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France

Claude Autant-Lara (August 5, 1901–February 5, 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist. Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best-known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film. As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless". In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from then on he had no popular successes. On 18 June 1989, he came to public notice again, controversially, when he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the National Front and the oldest member of the assembly. In his maiden speech, in July 1989, he caused a scandal by expressing his "concerns about the American cultural threat", provoking a walkout by the majority of the deputies. In an interview granted to the monthly magazine Globe in September 1989, he accused ex-President of the European Parliament and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil of playing "ethnic politics" to try and "infiltrate and dominate", saying that "If they try to speak to me about genocide, I say they missed mother Veil!" He also described Nazi gas chambers as a "string of lies". The resulting scandal led to his resignation as European deputy. Moreover, the members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, of which he was a vice-president for life, voted to prohibit him from taking his seat thenceforth. His memoir, The Rage in the Heart, appeared in 1984. He died at Antibes in Alpes-Maritimes in 2000. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRead more

Movies & web series

The Bardot mystery

The Regattas of San Francisco

The Incomplete Athlete

Vittel

Spécial cinéma

Don Juan et Faust

My Name Is Anna Magnani

Plumber in love

Cinépanorama

Lucien Leuwen

A Woman in White Revolts

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Ciboulette

Buster se marie

To Build a Fire

La Traversée de Paris

The Count of Monte Cristo

News Item

Courier of Lyons

Douce

Sylvia and the Ghost

The Red Inn

The Gambler

Le Carnaval des vérités

The Stream

Backbiters

The Inhuman Woman

Franciscan of Bourges

The Crazy Ray

Love Is My Profession

Keep an Eye on Amelia

Potatoes

Nana

Little Devil May Care

The Imaginary Voyage

Love Letters

Gloria

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Le Rouge et le Noir

The Marriage of Chiffon

Devil in the Flesh

Black Humor

Good Lord Without Confession

Fric-Frac

The Seven Deadly Sins

Enough Rope

The Game of Love

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!