Dec 20, 2009
Outside France, Jacques Prévert is best known as a screenwriter; among his credits are a number of films that have become classics of the French cinema. His first screenplay was written for his brother, Pierre Prévert, the director of L’Affaire est dans le sac (1932). The success of his dialogue in Jean Renoir’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1935) led to more such scripts, marked by Prévert’s sparkling wit and poetic repartee. His long collaboration with director Marcel Carné (born 1909) produced eight major films by 1950, including...
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