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The History of French Cinema: 1967

20/1 -

The Studio des Ursulines cinema in the Latin quarter of Paris re-opens after renovation work. [ADD]

6/2 -

Actress Martine Carol dies of a heart attack in Monte Carlo at the age of 44. [ADD]

22/2 -

Louis Malle’s Le Voleur (The Thief of Paris) is released. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Françoise Fabian, Marie Dubois and Charles Denner star. [ADD]

2/3 -

Eric Rohmer's second feature, La Collectionneuse (The Collector) opens at the Studio Gît-le-Cœur, a new arts cinema on the Left Bank in Paris. Patrick Bachau, Daniel Pommereulle and Haydèe Politoff star in a sophisticated tale of temptation. [ADD]

8/3 -

Sisters Françoise Dorléac and Catherine Deneuve star together in Jacques Demy’s Les Demoiselles de Rochfort (The Young Girls of Rochefort). Intended as a homage to MGM musicals, the cast includes veteran hoofer Gene Kelly. [ADD]

11/3 -

Claude Berri's first feature, the semi-autobiographical Le Vieil homme et l'enfant (The Two of Us), is released. Alain Cohen stars as a young boy who, during the war, is sent to the country to live with an anti-semite old man (Michel Simon) and his wife. [ADD]

17/3 -

Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) is released. The film stars Marina Vlady as a housewife who works as a prostitute one day each week to enable her to buy the household goods she desires. The title refers to the city of Paris. [ADD]

24/5 -

Luis Buñuel’s Belle de jour is released. Catherine Deneuve stars as a doctor’s wife who spends her afternoons working in an upmarket brothel. [ADD]

29/6 -

Actress Françoise Dorléac dies in a car crash at the age of 25. She was driving to Nice airport after holidaying with her sister, Catherine Deneuve and brother-in-law, David Bailey near St. Tropez. [ADD]

26/7 -

The ban on Jacques Rivette's La Religieuse (The Nun) is lifted following a change of government and Minister of State. The film will now be shown under its new title of Suzanne Siminon, la religieuse de Diderot. [ADD]

13/10 -

63-year-old film critic and historian Georges Sadoul dies in Paris after a long illness. [ADD]

16/12 -

The Minister of Finance freezes cinema admission prices. [ADD]

19/12 -

The manager is injured when right-wing youths vandalise the Kinopanorama Cinema, in the avenue de La-Motte-Piquet in Paris during the screening of Far from Vietnam. [ADD]

29/12 -

Jean-Luc Godard’s Week-End is released. [ADD]

Other Key French Films of 1967

La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard) [ADD]

Mouchette (Robert Bresson) [ADD]

Play Time (Jacques Tati) [ADD]

Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville) [ADD]

Vivre pour vivre (Claude Lelouch) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1967