In the history of film, Louis Malle is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Louis Malle as French film director, screenwriter, and producer (1932-1995).
Louis Malle was born at Thumeries in 1932. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques and Sciences Po.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as screenwriter, film producer and film director.
Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
His recorded fields of work are documentary film and drama film.
Recognition followed: Palme d'Or (1956) and BAFTA Award for Best Film (1975).
That the work was done from France matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Louis Malle died in 1995, aged 63. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Palme d'Or — 1956
- BAFTA Award for Best Film — 1975
- Educated at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques and Sciences Po
- Worked as screenwriter, film producer and film director
