Raoul Coutard
- Camera
- September 16, 1924 · Paris, France
- November 8, 2016
Biography
Raoul Coutard (16 September 1924 – 8 November 2016) was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the Nouvelle Vague period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard. Coutard also shot films for New Wave director François Truffaut as well as Jacques Demy, a contemporary frequently associated with the movement. He shot over 75 films during a career that lasted nearly half a century. Coutard originally planned to study chemistry, but switched to photography because of the cost of tuition. In 1945, Coutard was sent to participate in the French Indochina War; he lived in Vietnam for the next 11 years, working as a war photographer, eventually becoming a freelancer for Paris Match and Look. In 1956, he was approached to shoot a film by Pierre Schoendoerffer, La Passe du Diable. Coutard had never used a movie camera before, and reportedly agreed to the job because of a misunderstanding (he believed he was being hired to shoot production stills of the film). Coutard's first work collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard was Godard's first feature, À bout de souffle, shot in 1959. He was reportedly "imposed" on Godard by producer Georges de Beauregard; the director had already settled on a different cinematographer. Coutard photographed nearly all of Godard's work in the Nouvelle Vague era (1959 - 1967), with the exception of Masculin, féminin; their last work during this period was Week-end (1967), which marked the end of Godard's work as a 'mainstream' filmmaker. The two did not work together again until Passion; their final collaboration was Godard's next feature, Prénom Carmen. ... Source: Article "Raoul Coutard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Filmography
- The Wild Palms · Cinematography
- CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel · Self
- Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory · Self
- Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim » · Self
- Godard, Love and Poetry · Self
- The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin · Self
- The Outskirts of Alphaville
- Wild Innocence · Cinematography
- Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas · Self
- Jean Seberg: American Actress · Self
- The Phantom Heart · Cinematography
- Happiness Is No Joke · Cinematography
- The Birth of Love · Cinematography
- Bethune: The Making of a Hero · Cinematography
- Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède · Self
- Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave · Self
- Il gèle en enfer · Cinematography
- Thick Skinned · Cinematography
- Let Sleeping Cops Lie · Cinematography
- Burning Beds · Cinematography
- Blanc de Chine · Cinematography
- Max My Love · Cinematography
- Parachute · Cinematography
- The Bitch · Cinematography
- Dangerous Moves · Cinematography
- Salt on the Skin · Cinematography
- First Name: Carmen · Cinematography
- S.A.S. San Salvador · Director
- Godard's Passion · Cinematography
- Operation Leopard · Director
- Drummer-Crab · Cinematography
- Le Défilé du 14 Juillet 1977 · Writer, Director
- Une nuit en Lorraine · Director
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche · Self
- Like a Pot of Strawberries · Cinematography
- A Pain in the Ass · Cinematography
- The Hostage Gang · Cinematography
- Five Leaf Clover · Cinematography
- Embassy · Cinematography
- The Hideout
- The Most Gentle Confessions · Cinematography
- La Liberté en croupe · Cinematography
- The Bamboo Incident · Angry French man (uncredited), Director
- The Confession · Cinematography
- The Southern Star · Cinematography
- Z · English Surgeon (uncredited), Cinematography
- Rocky Road to Dublin · Cinematography
- The Bride Wore Black · Cinematography
- Weekend · Cinematography
- La Chinoise · Self, Cinematography
- Horizon · Cinematography
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her · Cinematography
- Made in U.S.A · Cinematography
- The Sailor from Gibraltar · Cinematography
- The Defector · Cinematography
- Pierrot le Fou · Cinematography
- Alphaville · Cinematography
- The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora · Cinematography
- The 317th Platoon · Cinematography
- Scruggs · Cinematography
- The Married Woman · Cinematography
- Male Companion · Cinematography
- Le Grand Escroc · Cinematography
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers · Cinematography
- Band of Outsiders · Cinematography
- The Soft Skin · Cinematography
- Contempt · Cameraman, Cinematography
- Portuguese Vacation · Cinematography
- The Carabineers · Cinematography
- Like Two Drops of Water · Cinematography
- Le Petit Soldat · Cinematography
- The Doll · Cinematography
- And Satan Calls the Turns · Camera Operator, Cinematography
- Vivre Sa Vie · Cinematography
- Antoine and Colette · Cinematography
- Love at Twenty · Cinematography
- Jules and Jim · Cinematography
- Petit Jour · Cinematography
- Chronicle of a Summer · Cinematography
- A Woman Is a Woman · Cinematography