René Clément

Known for DirectingBorn 1913-03-18Died 1996-03-17Bordeaux, Gironde, France

René Clément (March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati. Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa. In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya. Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film, La Bataille du rail (1945), gained much critical and commercial success. From there René Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits). Clément had international success with several films but his star-studded 1966 epic Is Paris Burning?, written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Paul Graetz was a costly box office failure. Clément continued to make a few films until his retirement in 1975, including an international success with Rider On The Rain that starred Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert. In 1984 the French motion picture industry honored his lifetime contribution to film with a special César Award. René Clément died in 1996 and was buried in the local cemetery in Menton on the French Riviera where he had spent his years in retirement. Description above from the Wikipedia article René Clément, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément

Europe Express

Spécial cinéma

Cinépanorama

Citizen Jane Fonda

L'Arabie interdite

Forbidden Games

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

Purple Noon

Beauty and the Beast

Is Paris Burning?

Filmmaking on the Riviera

Ceux du rail

The Day and the Hour

The Battle of the Rails

Gervaise

Joy House

And Hope to Die

Rider on the Rain

The Walls of Malapaga

Mr. Orchid

The Joy of Living

This Angry Age

Monsieur Ripois

The Damned

Caesar among the Gauls

The Glass Castle

The Deadly Trap

Watch Your Left

The Baby Sitter

Aude, belle inconnue

Évasion