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The History of French Cinema: 1962 |
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23/1 - |
François Truffaut's Jules et Jim is released. Oskar Werner and Henri Serre play the two men who both fall in love with Jeanne Moreau’s Catherine. [ADD] |
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27/1 - |
‘The thing which gives me the courage to keep going is that in the cinema industry one does not feel isolated. Solitude is one of the greatest problems facing other artists such as abstract painters and musicians.’ François Truffaut quoted in Le Monde. [ADD] |
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31/1 - |
Louis Malle's Vie privée (A Very Private Life) is released. Brigitte Bardot stars opposite Marcello Mastroianni in a role that reflects the problems suffered by the actress in real life. [ADD] |
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5/2 - |
The Empire cinema in Paris re-opens as the Empire-Abel Gance. The inaugural film is the Cinerama spectacle La Grande recontre. [ADD] |
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7/3 - |
Philippe de Broca’s Cartouche is released. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale star. [ADD] |
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11/5 - |
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Gabin appear together for the first time in Henri Verneuil's film Une singe en hiver (A Monkey in Winter) is released. [ADD] |
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25/5 - |
The French press report a liaison between Martine Carol and Jean-Marie Dallet, a young soldier said to be one of Georges Pompidou's nephews. [ADD] |
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10/6 - |
‘Have you been abroad lately? There are two things other countries envy us for: De Gaulle and the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave).’ Robert Benayoun in the magazine Positif. [ADD] |
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13/8 - |
Philippe Noiret marries Monique Chaumette in Paris. [MORE] |
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5/9 - |
Roger Vadim’s Le Repos du guerrier (Love on a Pillow), his fourth film with ex-wife Brigitte Bardot, is released. During filming Bardot stated that she intended to retire from the screen. [ADD] |
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20/9 - |
Jean-Luc Godard's fourth feature, Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live), is released. Godard’s wife, Anna Karina plays Nana S., a girl from the provinces whose descent into prostitution is chronicled in twelve chapters. [ADD] |
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20/11 - |
Brigitte Bardot divorces Jacques Charrier after three years of marriage. The actress is rumoured to have become infatuated with Sami Frey, her co-star in Henri-Georges Clouzot's La Verité. [ADD] |
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10/12 - |
The 130th edition of Cahiers du Cinéma is a special number devoted to the New Wave. It includes an interview with Jean-Luc Godard who states: ‘The sincerity of the Nouvelle Vague is essentially that it deals intelligently with things it knows about, rather than speaking badly of things it knows nothing about.’ [ADD] |
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Other Key French Films of 1962 |
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Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier) [ADD] |
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Le Caporal épinglé (The Vanishing Corporal) (Jean Renoir) [ADD] |
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Le Doulos (The Finger Man) (Jean-Pierre Melville) [ADD] |
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La Jetée (The Pier) (Chris Marker) [ADD] |
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Eva (Joseph Losey) [ADD] |
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Le Procès (The Trial) (Orson Welles) [ADD] |
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Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (Robert Bresson) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Le Soupirant (The Suitor) (Pierre Etaix) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (Georges Franju) [MORE] [ADD] |
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