La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures(2022)

La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures Synopsis

Filmmaker Louis Malle worked adjacent to the French Nouvelle Vague, but was admittedly never fully part of it, cementing his reputation instead with films like Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Zazie dans le Metro (1960), and Murmur of the Heart (1971), among others. In 1978, he made his first English-language picture, the highly controversial Pretty Baby, produced by Paramount Pictures. For the next decade and a half, he continued working in the English language, mostly in the United States, with films as varied as Atlantic City (1980), My Dinner With Andre (1981), Crackers (1983), Alamo Bay (1985), Damage (1992), and Vanya on 42nd Street (1992). What distinguishes these seven Anglophone films from Malle's previous Francophone films? And when Louis Malle arrived to make pictures in America, what did he see? What did America mean to Louis Malle?

La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures (2022) is a documentary film directed by Daniel Kremer, released on October 26, 2022 with a runtime of 25m. It stars Louis Malle and Daniel Kremer.