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Alexandre Astruc
Director 1923 - 2016

Alexandre Astruc

Paris, France

Alexandre Auguste Astruc (13 July 1923 – 19 May 2016) was a French film critic and film director. Before becoming a film director he was a journalist, novelist and film critic. His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion of the caméra-stylo or "camera-pen"... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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4 titles
Éducation sentimentale

Éducation sentimentale

Alexandre Astruc 1962 1h 32m

Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in love with Frédéric and in order to keep him away from Anne, pushes him into Barbara's arms.

La proie pour l'ombre

La proie pour l'ombre

Alexandre Astruc 1961 1h 35m

Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction?

Une vie

Une vie

Alexandre Astruc 1958 1h 26m

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries.

Les Mauvaises Rencontres

Les Mauvaises Rencontres

Alexandre Astruc 1955 1h 24m

Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients.

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