André Delvaux

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André, Baron Delvaux (French: [dɛlvo]; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director and widely regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Born in Heverlee, he died in Valencia, Spain after giving a speech at the World Arts Meeting. He received the Magritte Honorary Award at the Magritte Awards 2011.

Select filmography[]

• 1988 L'Œuvre au noir (after Marguerite Yourcenar's book). Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
• 1983 Benvenuta (with Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Françoise Fabian and Mathieu Carrière) (after Suzanne Lilar's book La Confession anonyme)
• 1979 Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf (Femme entre chien et loup)
• 1973 Belle
• 1971 Rendez-vous à Bray (after Julien Gracq's novel, Le Roi Cophétua)
• 1968 Un soir un train (with Yves Montand, Anouk Aimée, ) (after Johan Daisne's book De trein der traagheid)
• 1965 De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (L'Homme au crâne rasé) after Johan Daisne's book

References[]

Further reading[]

• Agel H. & J. Marty. 1996. André Delvaux : de l'inquiétante étrangeté à l'itinéraire initiatique. Lausanne : Age d'homme, ISBN 2-8251-0737-9, 978-2-8251-0737-9
• Colville, G.M.M. 2006. Between surrealism and magic realism: the early feature films of André Delvaux. Yale French Studies 109: 115–128.
• Mosley, P. 1994. From Book to Film: André Delvaux's alchemy of the image. The French Review 67: 813–823.
• Nysenhole, A. (Ed.). 1985. André Delvaux ou les visages de l'imaginaire. Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 295 pp.

External links[]

• André Delvaux by Henri Agel, Joseph Marty
• The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
• New York Times: André Delvaux
• Obituary in the Independent
• Dream is a second life
• André Delvaux at IMDb
• New releases of André Delvaux's films
• Article on André Delvaux in la Libre Belgique (in French)