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Pierre Uytterhoeven is a screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966 for his work with Claude Lelouch in A Man and a Woman. In 1986 he worked with Lelouch again on the film's sequel, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later .
Pierre Uytterhoeven. Writer: A Man and a Woman. Pierre Uytterhoeven is known for A Man and a Woman (1966), And Now My Love (1974) and Life Love Death (1969).
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Pierre Uytterhoeven est un scénariste français. Il est scénariste de nombreux films de Lelouch dont Un homme et une femme pour lequel il a obtenu l' Oscar du meilleur scénario original . Filmographie sélective. 1963 : L'Amour avec des si de Claude Lelouch (assistant réalisateur) 1964 : La Femme spectacle de Claude Lelouch (assistant réalisateur)
Pierre Uytterhoeven is a screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966 for his work with Claude Lelouch in A Man and a Woman. In 1986 he worked with Lelouch again on the film's sequel, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later.
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A young widow, Anne Gauthier, is raising her daughter Françoise alone following the death of her husband, who worked as a stuntman and died in a film set accident that she witnessed. Still working as a film script supervisor, Anne divides her time between her home in Paris and Deauville in northern France, where her daughter attends boarding school...
Story and script
According to director Claude Lelouch, the story originated from an experience following his disappointment trying to get a distribution deal for his film The Grand Moments. As was his habit during troubling times, he went for a long drive and ended up on the shore at Deauville at 2:00 am. After a few hours sleep in the car, he was awakened by the sunrise and saw a woman walking on the beach with her daughter and a dog. This sparked his creativity which led to the story and script which he co-...
Casting
A key casting decision for Lelouch was Jean-Louis Trintignant: For the female lead, Trintignant asked Lelouch who his ideal woman would be, and Lelouch indicated Anouk Aimée, who had appeared in Fellini's films La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½(1962). Trintignant happened to be a close friend of hers and told him to call her. When he did, she accepted without reading the script. Although early disagreements and the low-budget skeleton crew caused initial tension between the director and actress, th...
Filming
Once the script was drafted, the film was made relatively quickly, with one month of pre-production work, three weeks of principal photography, and three weeks editing.Due to budget constraints, he used an older handheld camera that was not soundproof, so blankets were frequently employed to dampen the camera noise. Lelouch is considered a pioneer in mixing different film stocks: black-and-white with colour, and 35mm with 16mm and super 8. For years, film critics debated the symbolism of the...
Box office
The film earned theatrical rentals of $4.6 million in the United States and Canada and $4 million internationally during its initial theatrical release. It played for 83 weeks in Boston, 73 weeks in Syracuse and 61 weeks in Seattle.An English-language version of the film was shown in the United States and Canada from 1 July 1968, and the film eventually earned rentals of $6.3 million in the US and Canada. It was the sixth most popular film at the French box office in 1966, after La Grande Vad...
Critical response
Upon its theatrical release in the United States, A Man and a Woman received mostly positive reviews. In his New York Times review, Bosley Crowther wrote: "For a first-rate demonstration of the artfulness of a cameraman and the skill at putting together handsome pictures and a strongly sentimental musical score, there is nothing around any better than Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman".Crowther lauded the "beautiful and sometimes breath-taking exposition of visual imagery intended to excite...
The soundtrack was written by Francis Lai and received Best Original Score nominations at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards in 1967. The film's theme song, with music by Lai and lyrics by Pierre Barouh, was also nominated for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture at the Golden Globe Awards. In Finland, it has become one of the most eas...
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Pierre Uytterhoeven Is a writer and actor known for A Man and a Woman, 11'09''01 - September 11, Money Money Money, And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen, Crossed Tracks, Live for Life, The Crook, Happy New Year, And Now My Love and Un homme qui me plaît
