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Léon la lune (English: Leon the Moon) is a 1956 French short documentary film directed by Alain Jessua. The film won the Prix Jean Vigo in 1957. The film documents an old drifter in Paris in the poetic realist style.[1]
| Léon la lune | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alain Jessua |
| Written by | Robert Giraud and Alain Jessua |
| Produced by | A.J. Films |
| Starring | Léon la Lune |
| Cinematography | Wladimir Ivanov |
| Music by | Henri Crolla and André Hodeir |
Release date |
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Running time | 16 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Jessua was inspired by Jean-Paul Clébert's book Paris Insolite[2] (1952) and decided to make a film about a clochard[3] or tramp. The poet and novelist Robert Giraud, an expert on the Parisian underworld, introduced Jessua to Léon la Lune, a vagrant whose real name was Leon Boudeville, and suggested that they follow him from day to night. After completing the film Giraud showed it to the poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert who wrote an introduction and asked Henri Crolla to contribute some music to the film.
Léon la lune also appeared in the series Clochards by Robert Doisneau, the pioneer of humanist photojournalism.[4]
Cast
edit- Léon la Lune aka Leon Boudeville
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "MoMA | Black Girl and Leo the Moon". www.moma.org. Archived from the original on 2010-11-18.
- ^ "Jean-Paul Clébert – HILOBROW".
- ^ Page 128, Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices edited by Stuart Hall
- ^ "Atelier Robert Doisneau | Galeries virtuelles des photographies de Doisneau - Clochards".
External links
edit- Léon la lune at IMDb
- Prix Jean Vigo, February 10–December 30, 2006, Moma - http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/3140
- Robert Giraud, scénariste d’Alain Jessua, Le Monde blog, 1 January 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20120513083221/http://robertgiraud.blog.lemonde.fr/2007/01/01/robert-giraud-scenariste-dalain-jessua/
- Forum Des Images, [1]
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