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The History of French Cinema: 1969 |
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26/2 - |
Constantin Costa-Gavras’s political thriller, Z, is released. Filmed in Algeria and based upon the novel by Vassili Vassilkos, the film stars Yves Montand and Jean-Louis Trintignant. [ADD] |
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20/3 - |
Documentary filmmaker Maurice Pialat’s debut fiction feature, L'Enfance nue (Me or Naked Childhood), wins the Jean Vigo prize. [ADD] |
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23/5 - |
Lindsay Anderson’s If wins the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, while Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, which had been banned by the Russian government since 1966, receives much praise. [ADD] |
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Eric Rohmer's Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's), the fourth of his Six Moral Tales, is released. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Françoise Fabian star. [ADD] |
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28/8 - |
Robert Bresson's adaptation of Dostoevsky’s short story, Une femme douce (A Gentle Creature), is released. Dominique Sanda stars. [ADD] |
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Jean-Pierre Melville's adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s novel, L'Armée des ombres (The Army in the Shadows), is released. A tale of the resistance, it stars Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret and Paul Meurisse. [ADD] |
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24/10 - |
Michèle Mercier, one of the country’s most popular stars thanks to the series of Angélique films, stars in Michel Audiard’s Une veuve en or (A Golden Widow) with Claude Rich. [ADD] |
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| – Concerns within the film industry are raised by the number of cinema closures due to the increasing popularity of television. There are now 9,378,032 licenced TV sets in the country, and the TV channel ORTF broadcast 327 feature films during 1969. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key French Films of 1969 |
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L’Amour fou (Jacques Rivette) [ADD] |
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Artur Rubinstein: l’amour de la vie (Gérard Patris, François Reichenbach) [ADD] |
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Le Chagrin et la pitié (Marcel Ophuls) [ADD] |
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Détruire, dit-elle (Marguerite Duras) [ADD] |
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Une femme douce (Robert Bresson) [ADD] |
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La Femme infidèle (Claude Chabrol) [ADD] |
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Le Gai savoir (Jean-Luc Godard) [ADD] |
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Que la bête meure (Claude Chabrol) [ADD] |
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La Sirène du Mississippi (Francois Truffaut) [ADD] |
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La Voie lactée (Luis Bunuel) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1969 |
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