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The History of French Cinema: 1982

10/2 -

Costa-Gavras is elected president of cinematheque francaise. [ADD]

27/2 -

Orson Welles attends the presentation of the Césars after receiving the Legion of Honour from the French president.   Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire wins both Best Film and Best Director Awards. [ADD]

2/4 -

Culture minister Jack Lang announces a new government plan for the reform of domestic cinema industry which will come into effect on 27^th July 1982. [ADD]

14/5 -

Daniel Vigne’s second film, Le Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre), is released almost ten years after his first (Les Hommes).   Gérard Depardieu plays the title character – or a man who claims to be him – a youth who left his pregnant child-bride eight years earlier. [ADD]

14/5 -

China takes part in the Cannes Film Festival for the first time with Chen Fan’s The Story of Ah Q. [ADD]

26/5 -

Michelangelo Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna (Identification of a Woman) wins the special 35^th Festival Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.   The Golden Palm is shared between Costa-Gavras’ Missing and Serif Gören’s Yol. [ADD]

29/5 -

Romy Schneider dies in Paris from a heart attack, caused by an excess of pills and alcohol at the age of 43, less than a year after the death of her son, David. [ADD]

28/8 -

A new law on programming reforms results in the dismantling of the Pathé-Gaumont GIE. [ADD]

14/9 -

Princess Grace of Monaco, the former actress Grace Kelly, dies in a car accident in Monaco.   She is 52. [ADD]

– The government appoints a mediator to regulate competition in film distribution. [ADD]

Other Key French Films of 1982

Le Beau Mariage (Eric Rohmer) [ADD]

Les fantomes du chapelier (Claude Chabrol) [ADD]

La nuit de Varennes (Ettore Scola) [ADD]

One Ma’s War (Edgardo Cozarinsky) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1982