André Delvaux

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. 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, François Beukelaers) (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

Select bibliography

• 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 on IMDb
• New releases of André Delvaux's films
• Article on André Delvaux in la Libre Belgique (in French)