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Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was an award-winning French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film, Le Monde du silence, won the Palme d'Or and Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1956. He was also nominated multiple times for Academy Awards later in his career.
Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood, and he produced both French and English language films. His most famous films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958), Atlantic City (1981), and Au revoir, les enfants (1987).
Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France. He initially studied political science at the Sciences-Po before turning to film studies at IDHEC instead.
He worked as the co-director and cameraman to Jacques Cousteau on the Oscar and Palme d'Or-winning (at the 1956 Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival respectively) documentary The Silent World (1956) and assisted Robert Bresson on A Man Escaped (French title: Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut, 1956) before making his first feature, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (released in the U.K. as Lift to the Scaffold and in the U.S. originally as Frantic, later as Elevator to the Gallows) in 1957. A taut thriller featuring an original score by Miles Davis, the film made an international film star of Jeanne Moreau, at the time a leading stage actress of the state Comédie-Française. Malle was 24 years old.
Interview with Louis Malle (1994) [w/ English Subtitles]
Louis Malle Calcutta 1969 Part I
Miles Davis - Louis Malle's Elevator To The Gallows Recording Session
Talking to Louis Malle - Philip French
L'inde Fantôme Louis Malle, 1969 Choses Vues A Madras Part IV
Black Moon (Louis Malle, 1975)
Atlantic City: Interview with director Louis Malle
Jeanne Moreau - Miles Davis - Louis Malle - Paris - 1958
Louis Malle meets hippies in India in 1968
Louis Malle "Au revoir les enfants" | Archive INA
Humain, Trop Humain by louis malle 1973
La petite - Louis Malle
I watch the waves crach in,
Breaking on the shore all their anger despensed on the oceans floor.
I look up at the sky so blue,
Sun shining so bright.
Long blades of grass sawing in the gentle breeze,
Dancing in rhythm with so much ease.
I look up at the trees hearing the singing of birds,
Happily chirping singing at ease.
Sitting hear holding my knees to my cheast,
Watching and hearing nature at its best.
We hold are anger let are happiness shine,
Making are survival a struggle each and everyday.
We have forgotten some little things that mean so much,
like the laughter, the freedom and someone's loving touch.
In each other's existence in harmony we could all survive.
I'm sure like the sun, wind, trees and birds are lives we could all survive.