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The History of French Cinema: 1979 |
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24/1 - |
François Truffaut's latest film, L'Amour en fuite (Love on the Run), the fifth in the series that began with Le Quatre cents coups (The Four Hundred Blows), is released. Jean-Pierre Léaud once again stars as Truffaut’s alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, now 35-years-old and separated from his wife and young son. Claude Jade, Dorothée and Marie-France Pisier co-star. [ADD] |
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24/1 - |
Adolescente, Jeanne Moreau’s second film as director, is released. Simone Signoret and Francis Huster star. [ADD] |
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Romy Schneider receives her second César at this year’s awards for her role in Claude Sautet's film Une histoire simple in which she plays a divorced mother coming to terms with turning 40. [ADD] |
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9/5 - |
André Téchiné’s Les Soeurs Brontë (The Brontë Sisters) is released. The film examines the releationship between the three sisters, Emily (Isabelle Adjani), Charlotte (Marie-France Pisier) and Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and their brother Bramwell (Pascal Greggory). [ADD] |
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24/5 - |
Volker Schlöndorff's Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now share the Golden Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. [ADD] |
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8/9 - |
Actress Jean Seberg’s body is discovered in the back of a car in a side street of the 16th arrondissement in Paris after she has committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. She had disappeared from her home a week earlier, eleven days after attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself in front of a subway train. [ADD] |
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31/10 - |
Tess, Roman Polanski’s first film since skipping bail in America after being found guilty of having sex with a minor, is released. Filmed in France, the adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel stars newcomer Nastassja Kinski – daughter of actor Klaus – in the title role. [ADD] |
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14/11 - |
Joseph Losey's screen adaptation of Mozart's Don Giovanni is released. The opera, conducted by Loren Maazel, is sung by Ruggero Raimondi (Giovanni), Kiri Te Kanawa (Elvira), Edda Moser (Anna) and José Van Dam (Leporello). [ADD] |
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Other Key French Films of 1979 |
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Buffet Froid (Bertrand Blier) [ADD] |
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| Le Dernier Melodrame (Georges Franju) [ADD] | ||||
The History of Cinema: 1979 |
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