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The History of French Cinema: 1977

23/1 -

Brian de Palma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel, Carrie, wins the Grand Prix at the Festival of Fantastic Film at the winter resort of Avoriaz. [ADD]

9/2 -

Alain Resnais’ Providence is released.   John Gielgud plays a dying novelist whose nightmare regarding four members of his family straddles the line between fact and fiction.   A strong cast includes Ellen Burstyn, Elaine Stritch, David Warner and Dirk Bogarde. [ADD]

19/2 -

Joseph Losey’s wartime drama Mr Klein wins this year’s César award for Best Film.   Losey also wins Best Director for the same film. [ADD]

9/3 -

L'Une chante, l'autre pas (One Sings, the Other Doesn't), Agnès Varda’s first fiction film for nine years, is released. Valérie Maltresse and Thérèse Liotard star in this feminist tale as friends who each face adversity before finding independence and fulfilment. [ADD]

16/3 -

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1964 film Comizi d'amore, in which the director interviews people of various ages a wide range of questions about sex and sexuality, is released. [ADD]

25/4 -

René Féret's comedy, La Communion solennelle, wins the first Philip Morris Foundation award. [ADD]

10/5 -

Simone Signoret announces she is to sue France Inter journalists Anne Gaillard and Jean-Edern Hallier for their suggestion that the actress didn’t write her autobiography La Nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle était (Nostalgia Is Not What It Used To Be). [ADD]

25/5 -

Swiss director Claude Goretta’s La Dentellière (The Lacemaker) is released.   Isabelle Huppert and Yves Beneyton star as young lovers whose relationship is tested by the differences in class and education. [ADD]

17/8 -

Luis Buñuel's Cet obscur objet du désir (That Obscure Object of Desire), loosely based on Pierre Louys’ novel The Woman and the Puppet, is released. Actresses Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina share the role of Conchita, a maid who enchants her employer (Fernando Rey). [ADD]

22/9 -

In an interview, director Claude Autant-Lara blames New Wave directors such as Jean-Luc Godard for the drop in cinema attendances. [ADD]

1/10 -

The Cannes film Festival’s Board of Directors names Gilles Jacob as their new general representative. [ADD]

9/11 -

Le Crabe-Tambour, Pierre Schoendoerffer’s adaptation of his own book, is released.    Jacques Perrin and Jean Rochefort star. [ADD]

Other Key French Films of 1977

Le camion (Marguerite Duras) [ADD]

Le Diable, probablement (Robert Bresson) [ADD]

L’Homme qui amait les femmes (Francois Truffaut) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1977