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Julio Cortázar is a Actor and Scriptwriter born on 26 august 1914

Julio Cortázar

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Birth name Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte
Birth 26 august 1914
Death 12 february 1984 (at 69 years)

Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte (), né le 26 août 1914 à Ixelles (Belgique) et mort le 12 février 1984 à Paris, est un écrivain argentin de Buenos Aires, auteur de romans et de nouvelles (tous en langue espagnole), établi en France en 1951 et qui, tout en conservant sa nationalité argentine, acquiert aussi la nationalité française vers la fin de sa vie, en 1981, comme acte de protestation contre la dictature militaire argentine de l'époque.

Biography

À la naissance de Julio en 1914, son père travaille à la délégation commerciale de la mission diplomatique argentine à Bruxelles. La famille, issue d'un pays neutre dans le conflit qui commence, peut rejoindre l'Espagne en passant par la Suisse, et passe dix-huit mois à Barcelone.

En 1918, la famille retourne en Argentine. Julio Cortázar passe le reste de son enfance à Buenos Aires, dans le quartier périphérique de Banfield, en compagnie de sa mère et de sa sœur unique, d'un an sa cadette. Le père abandonne la famille. L'enfant, fréquemment malade, lit des livres choisis par sa mère, dont les romans de Jules Verne.

Après des études de lettres et philosophie, restées inachevées, à l'université de Buenos Aires, il enseigne dans différents établissements secondaires de province. En 1932, grâce à la lecture d'Opium de Jean Cocteau, il découvre le surréalisme. En 1938, il publie un recueil de poésies, renié plus tard, sous le pseudonyme de Julio Denis. En 1944, il devient professeur de littérature française à l'Université nationale de Cuyo, dans la province de Mendoza.

En 1951, opposé au gouvernement de Perón, il émigre en France, où il vivra jusqu'à sa mort. Il travaille alors pour l'UNESCO en tant que traducteur. Il traduit en espagnol Defoe, Yourcenar, Poe. Alfred Jarry et Lautréamont sont d'autres influences décisives.




Cortázar s'intéresse ensuite aux droits de l'homme et à la gauche politique en Amérique latine, déclarant son soutien à la Révolution cubaine (tempéré par la suite : tout en maintenant son appui, il soutient le poète Heberto Padilla) et aux sandinistes du Nicaragua. Il participe aussi au tribunal Russell. La nature souvent contrainte de ses romans, comme Livre de Manuel, 62 modelo para armar ou Marelle, conduit l'Oulipo à lui proposer de devenir membre du groupe. Écrivain engagé, il refuse, l'Oulipo étant un groupe sans démarche politique affirmée.

Ses trois épouses successives furent Aurora Bernárdez (1920-2014), Ugné Karvelis (1935-2002) (qui a traduit de l'espagnol quelques-uns de ses inédits) et l'écrivaine Carol Dunlop.

Naturalisé français par François Mitterrand en 1981 en même temps que Milan Kundera, il meurt de leucémie trois ans plus tard, à Paris où il vivait au 4 rue Martel (10e).

Sa tombe au cimetière du Montparnasse, non loin de celle de son ami le peintre Bernard Mandeville, est un lieu de culte pour des jeunes lecteurs, qui y déposent des dessins représentant un jeu de marelle, parfois un verre de vin.

Usually with

Edward Bond
Edward Bond
(1 films)
Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Aja
(1 films)
Peter Bowles
Peter Bowles
(1 films)
Fred Wood
Fred Wood
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Julio Cortázar (8 films)

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Actor

Blow-Up
Blow-Up (1966)
, 1h51
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Photographie
Actors David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Bowles, John Castle, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin
Roles Homeless Man (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.699813.699813.699813.699813.69981
The plot is a day in the life of a glamorous fashion photographer, Thomas (Hemmings), inspired by the life of an actual "Swinging London" photographer, David Bailey. After spending the night at a doss house where he has taken pictures for a book of art photos, Thomas is late for a photo shoot with Veruschka at his studio, which in turn makes him late for a shoot with other models later in the morning. He grows bored and walks off, leaving the models and production staff in the lurch. As he leaves the studio, two teenage girls who are aspiring models (Birkin and Hills) ask to speak with him, but the photographer drives off to look at an antiques shop. Wandering into Maryon Park, he takes photos of two lovers. The woman (Redgrave) is furious at being photographed. The photographer then meets his agent for lunch, and notices a man following him and looking into his car. Back at his studio, Redgrave arrives asking for the film, but he deliberately hands her a different roll. She in turn writes down a false telephone number to give to him. His many enlargements of the black and white film are grainy but seem to show a dead body in the grass and a killer lurking in the trees with a gun. He is disturbed by a knock on the door, but it is the two girls again, with whom he has a romp in his studio and falls asleep.

Scriptwriter

Made Up Memories, 1h40
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Comedy, Black comedy
Actors Marilú Marini, Víctor Laplace
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.353.353.353.353.35
À la fin des années 50, à Buenos Aires, pour rassurer la mère, inquiète de ne pas recevoir des nouvelles de son fils Pablo parti pour l'Europe, la famille s'empêtre peu à peu dans le mensonge en lui envoyant lettres et cadeaux censés être expédiés par Pablo depuis Paris. Un stratagème qui va piéger toute la famille entre fiction et réalité.
Furia
Furia (1999)
, 1h30
Directed by Alexandre Aja
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Romance
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Stanislas Merhar, Marion Cotillard, Pierre Vaneck, Wadeck Stanczak, Jean-Claude de Goros, Carlo Brandt
Roles Short Story
Rating53% 2.6613652.6613652.6613652.6613652.661365
Dans un futur proche, et un pays soumis à une dictature policière, la liberté d'expression a été jugulée. Elle est devenue condamnable. A vingt ans, Théo refuse cet état de fait et chaque nuit, exprime sa révolte en dessinant sur les murs, au risque d'être arrêté et tué. Un soir, il fait ainsi la connaissance de Freddy mais surtout d'Elia, une fille de résistant qui comme lui, a la passion du dessin subversif. Leur idylle se renforce au gré de leurs virées nocturnes jusqu'au jour où Elia est arrêtée...
Traffic Jam, 2h1
Directed by Juan Luis Buñuel, Luigi Comencini
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Films about automobiles
Actors Annie Girardot, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli, Miou-Miou
Roles Writer
Rating68% 3.4439053.4439053.4439053.4439053.443905
In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome, thousands of motorists are stuck in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a variety of characters whose behaviour becomes strange. There is a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed and then raped by some dandies and a family from Naples on the way to Rome to abort their daughter. There is also an old couple that argues constantly; a patient that dies in the ambulance; an old actor staying in a small country house near the road; a female globetrotter who is hitch-hiking to the stopped cars and some young members of Far Left Wing among others. The day the traffic jam clears, the entrepreneur hires the girl from Naples for a record company in exchange for a sexual service. The girl is raped and then comforted by a man who wants to avenge her but then gives up. The rapists leave quietly once more.
Weekend
Weekend (1967)
, 1h35
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films
Actors Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Paul Gégauff, Valérie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Roles Short Story
Rating69% 3.450313.450313.450313.450313.45031
Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc) are a bourgeois couple, although each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They set out by car for Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary.
Blow-Up
Blow-Up (1966)
, 1h51
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Photographie
Actors David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Bowles, John Castle, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin
Roles Author
Rating73% 3.699813.699813.699813.699813.69981
The plot is a day in the life of a glamorous fashion photographer, Thomas (Hemmings), inspired by the life of an actual "Swinging London" photographer, David Bailey. After spending the night at a doss house where he has taken pictures for a book of art photos, Thomas is late for a photo shoot with Veruschka at his studio, which in turn makes him late for a shoot with other models later in the morning. He grows bored and walks off, leaving the models and production staff in the lurch. As he leaves the studio, two teenage girls who are aspiring models (Birkin and Hills) ask to speak with him, but the photographer drives off to look at an antiques shop. Wandering into Maryon Park, he takes photos of two lovers. The woman (Redgrave) is furious at being photographed. The photographer then meets his agent for lunch, and notices a man following him and looking into his car. Back at his studio, Redgrave arrives asking for the film, but he deliberately hands her a different roll. She in turn writes down a false telephone number to give to him. His many enlargements of the black and white film are grainy but seem to show a dead body in the grass and a killer lurking in the trees with a gun. He is disturbed by a knock on the door, but it is the two girls again, with whom he has a romp in his studio and falls asleep.
El Perseguidor
Genres Drama
Actors Inda Ledesma, Sergio Renán
Roles Story
Rating63% 3.195563.195563.195563.195563.19556