Cast & creator
Raoul Coutard
Best known for Les Rendez-vous du dimanche, Cinépanorama, Breathless
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.
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Filmography (96)
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Breathless
Director of Photography
1960
Vivre Sa Vie
Director of Photography
1962
Pierrot le Fou
Director of Photography
1965
Contempt
Cameraman
1963Contempt
Director of Photography
1963
Jules and Jim
Director of Photography
1962
Alphaville
Director of Photography
1965
First Name: Carmen
Director of Photography
1983
Band of Outsiders
Director of Photography
1964
The Bride Wore Black
Director of Photography
1968
A Woman Is a Woman
Director of Photography
1961
Shoot the Piano Player
Director of Photography
1960
Z
English Surgeon (uncredited)
1969Z
Director of Photography
1969
Lola
Director of Photography
1961
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Director of Photography
1967
Weekend
Director of Photography
1967
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Director of Photography
1993
The Married Woman
Director of Photography
1964
The Soft Skin
Director of Photography
1964
La Chinoise
Self - Cinematographer (uncredited)
1967La Chinoise
Director of Photography
1967
The Bamboo Incident
Angry French man (uncredited)
1970The Bamboo Incident
Director
1970The Bamboo Incident
Adaptation
1970
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Director of Photography
1964
A Pain in the Ass
Director of Photography
1973
The Defector
Director of Photography
1966
The Confession
Director of Photography
1970
Chronicle of a Summer
Director of Photography
1961
The Hideout
1971
Max My Love
Director of Photography
1986
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Director of Photography
1967
S.A.S. San Salvador
Director
1983
Love at Twenty
Director of Photography
1962
The Army Game
Director of Photography
1960
Antoine and Colette
Director of Photography
1962
Le Petit Soldat
Director of Photography
1963
Godard, Love and Poetry
Self
2007
The Carabineers
Director of Photography
1963
Made in U.S.A
Director of Photography
1967
Like a Pot of Strawberries
Director of Photography
1974
Male Companion
Director of Photography
1964
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Self
1993
And Satan Calls the Turns
Camera Operator
1962And Satan Calls the Turns
Director of Photography
1962
Dangerous Moves
Director of Photography
1984Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Self
1992
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Director of Photography
1988
Burning Beds
Director of Photography
1988
Salt on the Skin
Director of Photography
1984
The Birth of Love
Director of Photography
1993
Happiness Is No Joke
Director of Photography
1995
The Bitch
Director of Photography
1984
La Liberté en croupe
Director of Photography
1970
The Hostage Gang
Director of Photography
1973
Godard's Passion
Director of Photography
1982
The Phantom Heart
Director of Photography
1996
The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora
Director of Photography
1965
The Devil's Pass
Director of Photography
1959
Like Two Drops of Water
Director of Photography
1963
Operation Leopard
Director
1980
Drummer-Crab
Director of Photography
1977
Rocky Road to Dublin
Director of Photography
1968The Outskirts of Alphaville
2003
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Self
2004
The Most Gentle Confessions
Director of Photography
1971
The Southern Star
Director of Photography
1969
Five Leaf Clover
Director of Photography
1972
Horizon
Director of Photography
1967Parachute
Director of Photography
1986
The Wild Palms
Director of Photography
2025
Wild Innocence
Director of Photography
2001
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
Self
2011
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self
2000
Il gèle en enfer
Director of Photography
1990
The 317th Platoon
Director of Photography
1965
Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim »
Self (chef opérateur)
2008
Portuguese Vacation
Director of Photography
1963
Island Fisherman
Director of Photography
1959
Embassy
Director of Photography
1972Le Défilé du 14 Juillet 1977
Director
1977Le Défilé du 14 Juillet 1977
Writer
1977
The Doll
Director of Photography
1962
Jean Seberg: American Actress
Self
1997
Thick Skinned
Director of Photography
1989
Time Out for Love
Director of Photography
1961
Le Grand Escroc
Director of Photography
1964
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Self
2018
Ramuntcho
Director of Photography
1958Une nuit en Lorraine
Director
1975
Blanc de Chine
Director of Photography
1988
Petit Jour
Director of Photography
1962Scruggs
Director of Photography
1965