Claire Clouzot

{{Short description|French journalist and film director (1933–2020)}}

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Claire Clouzot (2 August 1933 – 2 February 2020) was a French film director and journalist.{{cite web|url=http://www.lefilmfrancais.com/cinema/145485/deces-de-la-critique-claire-clouzot|title=Décès de la critique Claire Clouzot|date=8 February 2020|work=Le Film Français|language=fr}}

Biography

Clouzot was the daughter of photographer Rémy Duval and the granddaughter of director Henri-Georges Clouzot. She worked as a photographer and journalist before she began directing in 1980,{{cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0317/031747.html|title=Claire Clouzot: film critic now dons the cape of director|date=17 March 1983|work=The Christian Science Monitor}} with the film L’Homme Fragile,{{cite magazine |date=May 1981|title=L'Homme Fragile|language=fr|magazine=La Revue du Cinéma}} starring Richard Berry, Françoise Lebrun, and Didier Sauvegrain.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167240/|title=Claire Clouzot|work=IMDb}}

Clouzot was a delegate at International Critics' Week from 2002 to 2004 when the films Reconstruction and Or (My Treasure) won the Camera d'Or.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2001/film/markets-festivals/clouzot-to-run-critics-week-1117853130/|title=Clouzot to run Critics Week|date=25 September 2001|work=Variety}}{{cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/berjon-named-as-cannes-critics-week-director/4021350.article|title=Berjon named as Cannes Critics' Week director|date=16 December 2004|work=ScreenDaily}}

= Death =

She died on 2 February 2020, aged 86.{{cite web|url=https://www.avoir-alire.com/disparition-de-la-critique-et-realisatrice-claire-clouzot|title=Disparition de la critique et réalisatrice Claire Clouzot|date=8 February 2020|work=Avoir Alire|language=fr}}

Filmography

L'homme en question (1976)
L'Homme Fragile (1981)
Rémy Duval, 28 place des Vosges (1986)

Publications

Le Cinéma français depuis la Nouvelle Vague (1972)
Autobiographie d'une pionnière du cinéma, 1873-1968, Alice Guy (1978)
Catherine Breillat. Indécence et pureté (2004)
La Saga des Clouzot et le cinéma (2007)

References

Category:1933 births

Category:2020 deaths

Category:French directors

Category:French journalists

Category:Place of death missing