Writing

Claude Roy

Born August 28, 1915 · Paris, France

Died December 13, 1997 · aged 82

Claude Roy (28 August 1915 – 13 December 1997) was a French poet and essayist. He was born and died in Paris. After the fall of France during World War II, Roy was captured as a prisoner of war. He later escaped and joined the French resistance. Initially associated with the political right, by 1943 Roy drifted towards the left under the influence of Louis Aragon and adhered to the French Communi…

Known For

The Real Thing

The Real Thing · 2018

MovieDocumentaryTV Movie

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.

Le Sourire

Le Sourire · 1960

MovieDocumentary

In the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kagi by Kon Ichikawa -- 'Le Sourire' won the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film in 1960. This quiet and intelligent film is a remarkable interpretation of a young monks perspective into a world of meditation, sacred geometry, and coming of age. A tribute to Buddhism, introspection and the wonders of nature...a short but lasting work of art.

An Instant

An Instant · 2018

"An Instant" is a short movie made for France télévision's TV program "En sortant de l'école". This program introduces kids to an author's poem through animation.

Reunion

Reunion · 1946

MovieDocumentary

Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of masses of prisoners of war and other deported people back to their home countries, at the end of World War II. A 45min 35mm print also exists (shown at Cinémathèque française in 2023).

The Lost Garden

The Lost Garden · 2018

The Lost Garden

Where does a garden go when it has nowhere to go to? A tale about wandering and exile.

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

Dans la vie tout s'arrange · 1952

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights. This was the French language version of Pardon My French (aka The Lady from Boston)

Somewhere, Someone

Somewhere, Someone · 1972

Somewhere, Someone

People in Paris struggle with loneliness and urban isolation. In the center is Raphaële, a successful architect navigating her fragile relationship with her lover Vincent, a journalist grappling with alcoholism.

Picasso

Picasso · 1954

MovieDocumentary

The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.”

Filmography

Sort

The Real Thing

The Real Thing · 2018

MovieDocumentaryTV Movie

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.

Administration

Le Sourire

Le Sourire · 1960

MovieDocumentary

In the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kagi by Kon Ichikawa -- 'Le Sourire' won the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film in 1960. This quiet and intelligent film is a remarkable interpretation of a young monks perspective into a world of meditation, sacred geometry, and coming of age. A tribute to Buddhism, introspection and the wonders of nature...a short but lasting work of art.

Dialogue

An Instant

An Instant · 2018

"An Instant" is a short movie made for France télévision's TV program "En sortant de l'école". This program introduces kids to an author's poem through animation.

Writer

Reunion

Reunion · 1946

MovieDocumentary

Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of masses of prisoners of war and other deported people back to their home countries, at the end of World War II. A 45min 35mm print also exists (shown at Cinémathèque française in 2023).

Narrator (voice)

The Lost Garden

The Lost Garden · 2018

The Lost Garden

Where does a garden go when it has nowhere to go to? A tale about wandering and exile.

Author

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

Dans la vie tout s'arrange · 1952

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights. This was the French language version of Pardon My French (aka The Lady from Boston)

Writer

Somewhere, Someone

Somewhere, Someone · 1972

Somewhere, Someone

People in Paris struggle with loneliness and urban isolation. In the center is Raphaële, a successful architect navigating her fragile relationship with her lover Vincent, a journalist grappling with alcoholism.

Picasso

Picasso · 1954

MovieDocumentary

The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.”

Writer

Zaa, the Little White Camel

Zaa, the Little White Camel · 1960

Zaa, the Little White Camel

Zaa follows the journey of a white camel returning to the oasis it calls home and finds an unlikely ally in a young boy. With Zaa, Bellon shows another side of herself, the lover of animals and children, in a land far from France.

Writer

La société est une fleur carnivore

La société est une fleur carnivore · 1968

La société est une fleur carnivore

MovieDocumentary

"Society is a carnivorous flower" - About activists in the student revolt in May 1968. Archive footage shows police entering the Sorbonne, street fighting, meetings and demonstrations. Many interviewees testify to police violence and abuses.

Writer