The Impressionist

Director’s Story

 Marcel L'Herbier (23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) had made movies for thirty-five years. (Johnson, 2000, p.213). He was a French filmmaker and had made more than 40 films. He was the founder and the first President of the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques(IDHEC) the most famous French film school in1943-1969. (
Jonathan,2016). He directed his.first film, Rose-France, a poetic film.using many.camera techniques. He had made 14 silent films and 30 sound films.

 Abel Gance (25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) had made movies for sixty-two years. (Johnson, 2000, p.213). He was a French film director, produce, actor and writer. He is famous with three silent films which is J’accuse (1919), La Roue (1923) and the monumental Napoleon (1927). J’accuse is the most symbolist film. He began his theatrical acting career in 1907 when he was seventeen years old. After he started his own production house,Le Film d’Art Company, he was assigned as the artistic directior. His first sound film was La Fin du monde. His best known film was Napoleon (1927). He used superimposition, hand-coloured film and rapid cutting to emphasize the cinematic movement. He used three cameras to film this film. (The editors of Encyclopædia Britannic, 2016).

Louis Delluc (14 October 1890 – 22 March 1924). He was an Impressionist French film director. After 1909, he worked as a journalist and began writing to the prestigious weekly. (Johnson, 2000, p.172). In 1917, he began his career in film criticism. He put the most effort as film critic, scriptwriting and filmmaker. During 1917-1914, Delluc wrote eight scenarios, Fumee noire (1920), Fievre (1921), Le Chemin d’ Ernoa (1921) ,La Femme du nulle part (1922), Le Silence (1920), Le Tonnerre (1921) and L’ Inondation (1923). He directed all the films except La Fete Espacrnole (1919). (Johnson, 2000, p.173)

Germaine Dulac (17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942). She was a French filmmaker. She founded a film company before moving into Impressionist territory. La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922) was her famous Impressionist film. This film has references to Baudelaire and Debussy (symbolist artists). She began her career as a frama critic for the femeinist journal La Francause and La Fronde in 1909. She began her film career in 1914 when.her.friend offered a position in the film Caliqula. The next year, she founded a company,ELIA Films, with her husband. In 1919, she collaborated with.Delluc on La Fete espagnole. (Johnson 2000, p.175). She spend 13 years in her film career with 26 films.