Romy Schneider

...and envy revolving around a lakeside hotelier (Serge Reggiani) who becomes obsessed with the idea that his luminous young wife (Romy Schneider) is unfaithful. The director eventually aborted the film, but his footage becomes the core of...

In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Duck Soup, Marx Brothers, Groucho, Nationalism, The Mystery of Picasso, Pablo Picasso, and The Wages of Fear

ulative control-freak, decided to go all new wave with a hallucinatory psychological thriller, L'Enfer (Inferno), starring Romy Schneider, below. Featuring interviews with the surviving members of L'Enfer's cast and crew, and...

In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Glasgow Film Theatre, and Les Diaboliques

...to be a psychodrama about a jealous middle-aged man (Serge Reggiani) driven to distraction by visions of his young wife (Romy Schneider) with other men. Spilling over with experimental ideas, but somehow lacking his usual efficiency, Clouzot...

In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear, and Serge Reggiani

...director Alain Cavalier's rarely seen "Le Combat Dans L'Ile" (1962), a combination political thriller/love-triangle story starring Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Henri Serre, plays today through Sunday and next Wednesday and...

In this article: Seattle, Alain Cavalier, Norway, Argentina, France, World War II, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed

...there are some amazing tracking shots of Reggiani stalking Schneider that catch the feverish sensibility of a man obsessed. Schneider herself is a magnificent camera subject, and there is added poignancy in remembering her own untimely death...

In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Serge Reggiani, Wages of Fear, Le Corbeau, Paranoia, New York Film Festival, La Verite, and Federico Fellini

...tale Clouzot planned to film in 1964 of a man (Serge Reggiani) driven towards the green-eyed monster by a beautiful woman (Romy Schneider), and of the curse that seemed to extend from L'Enfer the story to L'Enfer the production. Demons:...

In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, John Keats, Bright Star, Charlyne Yi, Jim Carrey, Ben Whishaw, Jane Campion, Abbie Cornish, and Paper Heart

...movie attracted mixed reviews. The Victors (1963), a war film shot in London with George Peppard and Romy Schneider, fared better, and she continued working, without ever achieving outright stardom, until the mid-1970s. Professor Yvonne...

In this article: Two Weeks in Another Town, Manchester United, London, Sophia Loren, Warwick Medical School, Surgery, Cancer, Yvonne Carter, and Football League

...my first husband, so I told Serge that I couldn't stay. At that moment I was offered a part in Jacques Deray's La Piscine, with Romy Schneider and Alain Delon, which was filming in St Tropez. CW: Were you daunted by the idea of a...

In this article: Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Champagne, Shyness, Alain Delon, France, God, Lemon Incest, and Burma Campaign

...early '60s with a hallucinatory psychological thriller. Inferno's protagonist is pathologically jealous of his hot, young wife (Romy Schneider), but the real head case was the director-unable to finish the movie and, as both survivors and...

In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Harmony Korine, Antichrist, Bluebeard, Lars von Trier, Palm d'Or Michael Haneke, Bruno Dumont, Alain Resnais, and Catherine Breillat

...became the object of every man's lustful gaze (including the director's) in Henri-Georges Clouzot's mad, unfinished "L'Enfer," Romy Schneider starred in "Le Combat Dans L'ile," this 1962 debut feature from director Alain Cavalier, now...

In this article: Jules and Jim, Cadre, L'Enfer, Alain Cavalier, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri Serre, and Jean-Louis Trintignant