HAPPY BIRTHDAY Claude Lelouch, Academy Award-winning director: A Man and a Woman [1966]; Bolero, Another Man, Another Chance. Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (born October 30, 1937) is a French film director, writer,cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch is known for making movies based heavily on improvised dialogue.[citation needed] His 1976 film, Cétait un rendez-vous, purportedly features a Mercedes 450SEL 6.9 being driven at extreme speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. The entire short is shot from the point of view of the car. Legend has it that Lelouch was arrested after it was first shown publicly.[4] In a 2006 interview, the director stated that he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and created a soundtrack of the radically different sounding Italian sports car for effect.[5] In recent years the public and the critics have seemed less interested in the director. The first part of his intended trilogy Le Genre Humain, Les Parisiens was described in Paris Match as one of the most resounding flops of French cinema. Perhaps a director likeCedric Klapisch had replaced him in the hearts of the younger generation? Lelouch responded, Its true no doubt, my public has grown old. It stays home and watches television.[citation needed] He has collaborated on no fewer than 28 occasions with the composer Francis Lai. They scored a great hit with the piece chabadabada for the film A Man and a Woman sung by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh, and more than 300 versions of the song exist. He is the father of 7 children: Simon (born May 20, 1969), Sarah (born June 7, 1976), Salomé Lelouch (born June 25, 1983), daughter Sabaya (born August 26, 1987), son Sachka (born September 13, 1989), daughter Shaya (born 1992) and Stella. He recently separated from wife Alessandra Martines, mother of his youngest daughter, Stella. In 1993 he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lelouch
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