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Claude Lelouch: Man and a Woman
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Following the international success of his 1966 romantic drama A Man and a Woman, French director Claude Lelouch reteamed with Jean-Louis Trintignant for this slick and witty crime film. Trintignant plays Simon, an ex-con who teams up with an old cohort (Charles Gerard) and his new wife (Christine Lelouch) to hatch a kidnapping scheme that will earn them a million dollars in cash. France, 1970, 120 mins.
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Born in Paris, France, the award-winning Claude Lelouch is ... a cinematographer, the founder of Les Films 13, and a former jury member of the Cannes Film Festival. Lelouch’s vast filmography includes A Man and a Woman (1966), Marriage (1974), Bandits (1986), Les Misérables (1994), Lumière and Company (1995), and Chacun Son Cinéma (2007).
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Five crooks switch from petty larceny to kidnapping in this comedy from Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman). Posing as a terrorist group, the gang kidnaps celebrities on "political" grounds, demanding large sums of money for their safe return. Shown in U.S. as Money Money Money, this light-hearted film features cameos by Jacques Brel, Johnny Hallyday, Jacques Paoli and more. In French with English subtitles. France/Italy, 1972, 120 mins.
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The 70-year-old Lelouch made his first splash stateside with his 1966 romantic drama "A Man and A Woman," which ran for over a year at New York's Paris Theatre and went on to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film. His latest, a witty thriller, stars Fanny Ardant as a bestselling writer whose scenarios seem to be emulated by a serial killer known as The Magician.
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Born in Paris, Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 for Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman), as well as two oscars including best foreign language film. The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece.
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