No. 07
This Issue – cinéaste maudit
The Lead – Film Maudit
Festival du Film Maudit
Before the New Wave, there was Biarritz: a festival of cursed films, dinner jackets in the surf, and a dormitory of teenage critics who would soon turn on their elders.
Jean Cocteau in Biarritz
1949
The Director
Alexandre Astruc
Camera-Stylo, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Crimson Curtain
In This Issue
01
The festival where Francois Truffaut met Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol
Feature
02
Ulysse ou les Mauvaises Rencontres (1948)
Alexandre Astruc’s first film and Saint-Germain-des-Prés’s last hurrah
Feature
03
Festival du Film de Demain 1950
Henri Langlois’s rival festival to Venice, featuring Sartre, Picasso and Genet
Feature
04
He acted in Truffaut’s first film and helped make his last script. Cahiers critic and New Wave Assistant.
Feature
05
Jean-Charles Tacchella’s nostalgic look back on post-war cinephilia
Films
Film Maudit Related Directors
Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan
Remorques – Dir. Grémillon – 1941
Reference
Bronze Screen Dream – Designed by Me
Next – No. 08 – Anouk Aimee
