Claude Sautet

Claude Sautet 23 February 1924 22 July 2000 was a French film director and screenwriter He was a chronicler of postwar French society He made a total of five films with his favorite actress Romy Schneider Born in Montrouge HautsdeSeine France Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer His first movie Hello Smile originally Bonjour Sourire was released in 1956 He earned international attention with The Things of Life Les choses de la vie 1970 which he wrote and directed like the rest of his later films Featuring Michel Piccoli in the male lead it was shown in competition at the 1970 Cannes Festival The film also revived the career of Romy Schneider she acted in several of Sautets later films In his next film Max and the Junkmen Max et les Ferrailleurs 1971 Schneider played a prostitute while in César and Rosalie César et Rosalie 1972 she portrayed a married woman who copes with the reappearance of an old flame Vincent François Paul and the Others Vincent Paul François et les Autres 1974 is one of Sautets most acclaimed films Four middleclass men meet in the country every weekend mainly to discuss their lives As well as Piccoli it featured Yves Montand Gérard Depardieu and Stéphane Audran Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian in a 2020 tribute article to Michel Piccoli thought it was arguably the best of the five very wellregarded movies on which the actor and director collaborated Sautet achieved even further critical success with Mado 1976 His film A Simple Story Une Histoire simple 1978 was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The film featured Schneider again this time as a dissatisfied working woman in her 40s She won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance In the 1980s he made only two films Waiter Garçon 1983 a drama starring Yves Montand as a middleaged waiter and the comedy A Few Days with Me Quelques Jours Avec Moi 1988 Claude Sautet won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the César Award for Best Director for A Heart in Winter Un cœur en hiver 1992 and received the César once more for Nelly and Mr Arnaud Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud 1995 Both films starred Emmanuelle Béart Apart from his own directing he also wrote screenplays for other directors Claude Sautet died of liver cancer in Paris in July 22 2000 and was buried there in the Montparnasse Cemetery In 2001 from May 5th to July 14th Canal Plus aired eleven of its feature films in their final versions following the work done with Béatrice Valbin Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Sautet licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia