Henri Colpi

Henri Colpi French kɔlpi 15 July 1921 14 January 2006 was a French film editor and film director Colpi graduated from the IDHEC in 1947 During 1950 to 1960 he edited films for such notable French New Wave directors as Agnès Varda and Georges Franju Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence which is well known for sharing the Palme dOr at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with Viridiana directed by Luis Buñuel Une aussi longue absence was written by Marguerite Duras featured Alida Valli in a major role and included music by Georges Delerue It also won the Louis Delluc Prize in 1960 His second feature Codine was also screening in competition at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival where Colpi won the prize for Best Screenplay Colpi is also noted as a film editor with about 20 credits including Alain Resnais films Hiroshima mon amour 1959 and LAnnée dernière à Marienbad 1961 He edited André Antoines forgotten film LHirondelle et la Mésange The Swallow and the Titmouse to a 79minute feature that premiered in 1984 Antoine initially shot six hours of footage In addition to directing editing acting sound recording and a variety of functions in the postWar years he was featured in a French television series LHistoire du cinéma français par ceux qui lont fait The History of French Cinema By Those Who Made It in 1974 and he continued to work into the 1990s