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Claude Lelouch: A Tribute

In a career spanning seven decades, Claude Lelouch carved out his unique place in the French and international cinema scene. He presents masculine and dramatic cinema that enjoys moving swiftly and powerfully between plot twists and demonstrates his love for film. The program marks the famed director's visit to the Cinematheque with a documentary about him, demonstrating that for Lelouch, to live means to love: cinema and life

Un homme et une femme

Dir.: Claude Lelouch
| 102 minutes

Widow and widower fall in love. Will she forget her late husband for the sake of her new love? Claude Lelouch’s classic film is a composition of stylish scenes with a lot of feeling.

And Now My Love

Dir.: Claude Lelouch
| 150 minutes

It takes three generations of random encounters for Sarah to meet Simon. The path is depicted by Lelouch as a lesson in the history of cinema and French Jewry. With a bold style, and continuous movement, the result is dramatic and emotional. 

Les Misérables

Dir.: Claude Lelouch
| 174 minutes

Claude Lelouch's most ambitious film, in the humanistic tradition typical of his work, has his familiar trademark of romantic optimism. It is a monumental multi-faceted saga, which combines, with typical visual lavishness, French literary classics and the history of France in the first half of the century. 

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Dir.: Claude Lelouch
| 120 minutes

An orphan raised in a circus and now a wealthy businessman decides to abandon his friends and family, fake his death, and disappear. Lelouch and Belmondo present “midlife crisis” as a singular and stunning cinematic epos.

Shoot to Live (Tourner pour vivre)

Dir.: Philippe Azoulay
| 105 minutes

In 2012, Philippe Azoulay met Claude Lelouch and suggested following the famed director on his next big adventure: directing three films in three years. The result reveals something of the power and magic of his works and his characteristics: passion and a great love for life and cinema.