Born in Paris in 1937, Claude Lelouch started shooting films as a teenager and spent his money on a short film that was a failure. After several flops, he made A Man and a Woman (1966), a low-budget love story between a widower racing driver and a widowed script girl, with a lush score by Francis Lai, and it won the Palme d'Or and two Oscars. He is prolific, often shoots with his own camera and does a lot of improvisation, and his later films include Les Uns et les Autres (1981) and Les Misérables (1995). A Man and a Woman: Twenty Years Later followed in 1986.
Filmography
- A Man and a Woman (1966)
- Live for Life (1967)
- The Crook (1970)
- Money Money Money (1972)
- Happy New Year (1973)
- Les Uns et les Autres (1981)
- Edith and Marcel (1983)
- A Man and a Woman: Twenty Years Later (1986)
- Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
- Les Misérables (1995) (1995)
- And Now Ladies & Gentlemen (2002)
- Roman de gare (2007)
- Un + Une (2015)
- The Best Years of a Life (2019)