जीवनी

12 अप्रैल 1912 · Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, फ़्रांस

5 नवंबर 1987 · पेरिस, फ़्रांस (अप्रकाशित)

He often cast Edith Scob in a supporting role

Great cinematographic eye

Suggestive night shots

Franju had a long history of friendship with well-known surrealists including André Breton, and the influence of this movement is evident in his works.

Co-founder, with Henri Langlois, of the French Cinematheque in 1936.

Resigned (30th March 1981) as artistic director of the Cinémathèque due to conflictions within its organisation.

Brother-in-law of director Patrice Molinard.

[on Edith Scob] She is a magic person. She gives the unreal reality.

[describing his style] I'm led to give documentary realism the appearance of fiction. Kafka becomes terrifying from the moment it is documentary. In documentary I work the other way round.

I admit I'm much more sensitive to the scenic than the dynamic. When I was tiny I saw a fire for the first time, and afterwards I saw the façade with nothing behind. I've kept the vision of something very artificial and strange- a façade with nothing behind. And what was in front of it? Space..now haunted..

Surrealism had taught me that reason comes after creation, and creation is a true deflagration when confronted, not with a solution, but an obstacle.