History Creator / LouisMalle

After studying film at the Sorbonne, he worked as an assistant for Creator/RobertBresson on ''Film/AManEscaped'' before working with Creator/JacquesCousteau as a cameraman and co-director on ''The Silent World'' which would later earn both an Oscar and the Palme d'Or. Cousteau would later call Malle the best underwater cameraman he had ever worked with. Malle would make his solo directorial debut with ''Film/AscenseurPourLEchafaud'', a noir thriller which featured a famous score by Music/MilesDavis, and made a star of Creator/JeanneMoreau.

* ''Film/AscenseurPourLEchafaud'' (1958)

* ''Film/SpiritsOfTheDead'' (1968)

* ''Vanya on 42nd Street' (1994) — his last film, an adaptation of the play ''Theatre/UncleVanya''

Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was a contemporary of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and is sometimes listed as a part of the movement, but he did not consider himself a member, and rejected several tenets of the movement, such as UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory.

After studying film at the Sorbonne, he worked as an assistant for Creator/RobertBresson on ''Film/AManEscaped'' before working with Creator/JacquesCousteau as a cameraman and co-director on ''The Silent World'' which would later earn both an Oscar and the Palme d'Or. Cousteau would later call Malle the best underwater cameraman he had ever worked with. Malle would make his solo directorial debut with ''Elevator to the Gallows'', a noir thriller which featured a famous score by Music/MilesDavis, and made a star of Creator/JeanneMoreau.

!! Filmography

* ''Film/TheSilentWorld'' -- documentary feature co-directed with Jacques Cousteau
* ''Film/AscenseurPourLEchafaud''
* ''Film/VivaMaria''

* ''Film/LacombeLucien''
* ''Film/PrettyBaby''
* ''Film/AtlanticCity''
* ''Film/MyDinnerWithAndre''
* ''Film/AuRevoirLesEnfants''
* ''Theatre/UncleVanya'' (1994 adaptation of the play was his last movie)

!! Tropes

His next film, ''The Lovers'' an adultery drama that became highly controversial due to its sexual content. A theater owner in Ohio, named Nico Jacobellis, who showed the film was charged with obscenity and fined $2,500. However, Jacobellis continued to appeal to higher courts until he reached the Supreme Court, which ruled that the film was not obscene. The case is now considered a landmark in free speech laws and Justice Potter Stewart's definition of pornography (''I will know it when I see it'') has been subject to a good deal of MemeticMutation.

After studying film at the Sorbonne, he worked as an assistant for Creator/RobertBresson on Film/AManEscaped before working with Creator/JacquesCousteau as a cameraman and co-director on ''The Silent World'' which would later earn both an Oscar and the Palme d'Or. Cousteau would later call Malle the best underwater cameraman he had ever worked with. Malle would make his solo directorial debut with ''Elevator to the Gallows'', a noir thriller which featured a famous score by Music/MilesDavis, and made a star of Creator/JeanneMoreau.

This would not be the only time Malle was the subject of controversy. He directed two documentaries about India that caused the Indian government to ban not only him, but also the BBC from filming in the country for several years. He would go on to deal with subjects such as incest in ''Murmur of the Heart'', France's capitulation to the Nazis in ''Lacombe, Lucien'', and child prostitution in Film/PrettyBaby, which would be accused of child pornography due to a nude scene by 12 year old Brooke Shields.

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Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was a contemporary of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and is sometimes listed as a part of the movement, but he did not consider himself a member, and rejected several tenets of the movement, such as the Auteur Theory.

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Louis Marie Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French director. He was a contemporary of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and was sometimes listed as a part of the movement, but he did not consider himself a member, and rejected several tenets of the movement, such as the Auteur Theory.

Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French director. He was a contemporary of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and was sometimes listed as a part of the movement, but he did not consider himself a member, and rejected several tenets of the movement, such as the Auteur Theory.

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Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French director. He was a contemporary of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and was sometimes listed as a member, but he did not consider himself a member, and rejected several tenets of the movement, such as the Auteur Theory.

* RuleOfCool: For Ascenseur sur l'echafaud which is always self-consciously cool.
* TheNondescript: Before the page for Louis Malle was started separate pages were already existing for six of his films including Viva Maria, Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, My Dinner with Andre, Au revoir les enfants. That's a superior number to that of quite a few acclaimed directors with their own pages. Even though the list '''still''' does not include some of his best films from the very beginning of his career or some of fairly acclaimed films made by him already in TheNineties as well as includes Viva Maria and Pretty Baby which are not among his famous works.

Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French director. He was a contemporary of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and was sometimes listed as a member, but he was the one who did not managed to create his own style as he was always just making movies not passing for an auteur.

Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French director. He was a contemporary of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and was sometimes listed as a member, but he managed to create his own style distinct from his colleagues.

* TheNondescript: Before the page for Louis Malle was started separate pages were already existing for six of his films including Viva Maria, Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, My Dinner with Andre, Au revoir les enfants. That's a superior number to that of quite a few acclaimed directors with their own pages. Even though the list '''still''' does not include some of his best films from the very beginning of his career or some of fairly acclaimed films made by him already in TheNineties as well as includes Viva Maria and Pretty Baby which are not among his famous works. In any case nobody especially cares about his style, he is not a creator to provoke controversy even though he has a number of quite renowned films.

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Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French director who is so unremarkable that on ThisWiki pages for six films of his existed before the personal page for him was made.

When Creator/RobertBresson is described as a ''tropes-averse'' director it is rather misleading as he is (his characters are) constantly austere, taciturn and expressionless and that's where his regular tropes can be detected and then listed. He is unique. However Malle is indeed a trope-averse filmamaker. After a very cool nouvellevague-ish beginning in TheFifties he then had a lasting career and made a number of enjoyable to great part-mainstream part-arthouse films (finishing in TheNineties when he produced three items of note) without any special consequent style to them.

Still Film/MyDinnerWithAndre is often cited as an influence by quite a few acclaimed directors (primarily because of its gimmick), while Film/AuRevoirLesEnfants is sometimes claimed to inspire the title of Film/ReservoirDogs. Thus he is remembered more for his films than for his personality.

Interestingly Malle was an assistant for Bresson during the shooting of Film/AManEscaped.

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* FrenchNewWave: Zigzagged. He is at times considered to belong to this genre but is one of the side creators in this movement.
* RuleOfCool: For Ascenseur sur l'echafaud which is always self-consciously cool.
* TheNondescript: Before the page for Louis Malle was started separate pages were already existing for six of his films including Viva Maria, Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, My Dinner with Andre, Au revoir les enfants. That's a superior number to that of quite a few acclaimed directors with their own pages. Even though the list '''still''' does not include some of his best films from the very beginning of his career or some of fairly acclaimed films made by him already in TheNineties as well as includes Viva Maria and Pretty Baby which are not among his famous works. In any case nobody especially cares about his style, he is not a creator to provoke controversy even though he has a number of quite renowned films.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: He was vilified for Lacombe Lucien and more than ten years later made a similarly-themed Au revoir les enfants which was universally approved in France.

* TheNondescript: Before the page for Louis Malle was started separate pages were already existing for six of his films including Viva Maria, Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, My Dinner with Andre, Au revoir les enfants. That's a superior number to that of quite a few acclaimed directors with their own pages. Even though the list '''still''' does not include some of his best films from the very beginning of his career or some of fairly acclaimed films made by him already in TheNineties as well as includes Viva Maria and Pretty Baby which are not among his famous works. In any case nobody especially cares about his style, he is not a creator to provoke controversy even though he has a number of quite renowed films.

* TheNondescript: Before the page for Louis Malle was started separate pages were already existing for six of his films including Viva Maria, Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, My Dinner with Andre, Au revoir les enfants. That's a superior number to that of quite a few acclaimed directors with their own pages. Even though the list '''still''' does not include some of his best films from the very beginning of his career or some of fairly acclaimed films made by him already in TheNineties as well as includes Viva Maria and Pretty Baby which are not among his famous works. In any case nobody especially cares about his style, he is not a creator to provoke controversy even though he has a number of quote renowed films.

Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French Left Banke movement director who is so unremarkable that on ThisWiki pages for six films of his existed before the personal page for him was made.

* FrenchNewWave: Zigzagged. He is at times considered to belong to this genre but more often is classified as a member of Left Banke movement which is a leftfield variant of the Nouvelle Vague (hence the name). E.g. Creator/AgnesVarda who also belongs to Left Banke is considered to belong to Nouvelle Vague on this wiki.