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Julien Duvivier (French:; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960.
Died: October 29, 1967, Paris (aged 71) Julien Duvivier (born October 8, 1896, Lille, France—died October 29, 1967, Paris) was a motion-picture director who emerged as one of the “Big Five” of the French cinema in the 1930s. Duvivier’s use of “poetic realism,” which characterized the works of the avant-garde filmmakers of that ...
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On 30 October 1967, shortly after completing his final film, Diaboliquement vôtre, Julien Duvivier died tragically in a car accident, aged 71.
Duvivier had just completed production on his final project, "Diaboliquement vôtre" (1967), when he was killed in an auto accident at the age of 71. Though his life and career ended with this tragic accident, his legacy lives on through his films and in the minds and hearts of many.
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Julien Duvivier: Love Unto Death. Sam Rohdie. Introduction: Apart from his final, posthumously published book Film Modernism (Manchester University Press, 2015), this essay would appear to be one of the last pieces written by Sam Rohdie, and certainly the last (dated 27 March 2014) in a long line which he sent to Screening the Past down the years.
The mal-aimé director has since made a posthumous comeback. Prompted by screenings marking his one hundredth birthday, biographers and historians began to re-evaluate Duvivier’s films; The Divine Voyage, in particular, is ready for its close-up.
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Mar 17, 2017 · The classicism of his mise en scène, his core thematic concerns – deception, misanthropy, the fragility of the (male) group, the dangerous woman – and his ability to coax fevered or fragile performances by both established stars and new actors place Duvivier at the apex of French Classical Cinema.
