THE PASSIONS OF LOUIS MALLE
Don Boyd, France/UK, 2003
Wednesday 20 August 2003 9pm-10.1-pm; rpt 12.40am-1.50am
Malle's collaborators, family, friends and lovers all contribute to this celebration of the French director's charm, passion, intelligence and great body of work. Interviewees include Candice Bergen, Brigitte Bardot, David Hare and critic Phillip French.
PHILIP FRENCH Interview
"Malle was attracted by certain taboo subjects"
STORYVILLE
What's on this week and features on previous films
Commissioner's
Comment Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
Louis Malle may be a famous French film director, but he also occupies a special place in the hearts of British critics and admirers. In a way his films are the closest you can get to French films made in the English language, or English films made in the French language.
He did in fact spend quite a lot of his life in the United States and he was married to the American actress Candice Bergen.
Don Boyd's entertaining and candid film explores the relationship between Malle's passions - for travel, for informing himself and for politics, but most of all, for women - and how they find expression in his films.
We are showing a small selection of Malle's films on BBC Four to accompany this documentary: Lacombe Lucien, Le Souffle Au Coeur and Les Amants. I hope that the result of this may be the reevaluation of Louis Malle. He really was as good as Truffaut and Godard.
