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A Certain Tendency of French Cinema (Une Certaine Tendance of Cinema Francaise)

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It would be nice to think that the meaning of the word 'art' can make men aware of the greatness they do not recognise in themselves. --- Andre Malraux, 'Le Temps do mepris/ Days of Contempt', preface 1. Faithfulness to the spirit of the works they adapt; 2. The talent they put into the task. That celebrated faithfulness ... Since 1943, Aurenche and Bost have together been responsible for the screen adaptation and dialogue of the following novels: Michel Davet's Douce, André Gide's La Symphonie pastorale, Raymond Radiguet's Le Diable au corps, Henri Queffélec's Un recteur de I’ile de Sein (Dieu a besoin des hommes / God Needs Men), Francois Boyer's Les Jeux inconnus (Jeux interdits) and Colette's Le Blé en herbe (The Game of Love). In addition they wrote an adaptation of Georges Bernanos's novel, Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest), which was never filmed, a script about Joan of Arc, only part of which has just been filmed (by Delannoy [the 'Jeanne' episode of

A Certain Tendency of French Cinema (Une Certaine Tendance of Cinema Francaise) French New Wave and international new wave cinema . . . . . . search newwavefilm.com Follow @New_Wave_Film ABOUT Articles ABOUT History of New Wave New Wave Politics New Wave & Jazz A Certain Tendency La Camera-Stylo Evolution of Film Lang Politique des Auteurs Interviews Hitchcock/Truffaut Alain Jessua Kent Jones Serge Toubiana G Andrew on Truffaut G Andrew on Rohmer D Andrew on Bazin G Andrew on Melville G Andrew on Piccoli G Andrew on Scorsese Witt on Godard Hames on Chytilova Brooke/Skolimowski Saccogna/Neoreal

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