Bernard Evein


Production Designer

About

Birth Place
France
Born
January 05, 1929

Biography

Key New Wave art director who has effectively adapted himself to a wide range of directorial styles; Evein created Claude Chabrol's menacing interiors ("Les Cousins," "A Double Tour," both 1959) as well as the bold, open vistas of Jacques Demy's "Lola" (1961). Other outstanding works include Godard's vivacious color debut "A Woman Is a Woman" (1961) and Louis Malle's melancholic "The Fir...

Biography

Key New Wave art director who has effectively adapted himself to a wide range of directorial styles; Evein created Claude Chabrol's menacing interiors ("Les Cousins," "A Double Tour," both 1959) as well as the bold, open vistas of Jacques Demy's "Lola" (1961). Other outstanding works include Godard's vivacious color debut "A Woman Is a Woman" (1961) and Louis Malle's melancholic "The Fire Within" (1963).

Filmography

 

Art Director (Feature Film)

La Merveilleuse visite (1993)
Art Director
Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
Art Director
La Rumba (1987)
Art Direction
Therese (1986)
Art Direction
Notre Histoire (1984)
Art Direction
Une chambre en ville (1982)
Art Direction
Tous Vedettes (1980)
Art Direction
Chere Inconnue (1980)
Art Direction
Lady Oscar (1979)
Art Direction
Madame Rosa (1978)
Art Direction
Le Jouet (1976)
Art Direction
Nea (1976)
Art Direction
L' Alpagueur (1976)
Art Direction
A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
Art Direction
The Grand Bazar (1973)
Art Direction
Le Hasard Et La Violence (1973)
Art Director
Le Bateau sur l'herbe (1971)
Art Direction
The Confession (1970)
Art Director
Sweet Hunters (1969)
Art Direction
Paris in the Month of August (1968)
Art Director
The Oldest Profession (1968)
Art Director
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1968)
Sets
Woman Times Seven (1967)
Art Director
A Taste for Women (1966)
Art Director
Viva Maria (1965)
Art Director
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Art Director
Bay of the Angels (1964)
Art Director
The Fire Within (1964)
Art Director
A Woman Is a Woman (1964)
Art Director
Seven Capital Sins (1963)
Art Director for "Lust"
Time Out for Love (1963)
Art Director
Lola (1962)
Art Director
Sundays and Cybèle (1962)
Art Director
A Very Private Affair (1962)
Art Director
Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962)
Art Director
Le combat dans l'ile (1962)
Art Direction
Leda (1961)
Art Director
The Five Day Lover (1961)
Art Director
Zazie Dans Le Metro (1960)
Art Director
The Love Game (1960)
Art Director
Les Cousins (1959)
Art Director
The 400 Blows (1959)
Art Director
The Lovers (1958)
Art Direction
Le Bel Indifferent (1957)
Art Direction

Costume-Wardrobe (Feature Film)

A Woman Is a Woman (1964)
Costumes
Last Year at Marienbad (1962)
Costumes
Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962)
Costume Design

Art Department (Feature Film)

Therese (1986)
Set Designer
Sweet Hunters (1969)
Set Designer
The Day and the Hour (1964)
Set Decoration

Production Designer (Feature Film)

Have I The Right To Kill (1963)
Production Designer

Art Director (Short)

Fiances du Pont Macdonald, Les (1961)
Art Direction

Costume-Wardrobe (Short)

Fiances du Pont Macdonald, Les (1961)
Costume Designer

Life Events

1952

First film credit, assistant art director, "La Danseuse nue"

1952

First film as art director and costume designer, "On ne badine pas avec l'amour"

Videos

Movie Clip

Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Un Film De Jacques Demy Director Jacques Demy's improbable on location opening begins to suggest the visual style, and provides the first sample of Michel Legrand's international hit theme, in the one-of-a-kind musical that made Catherine Deneuve a star, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, 1964.
Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Too Ugly Or Too Stupid? On location at the Normandy title-town, teen Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve) with boyfriend Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), then at work with mother (Anne Vernon), music by Michel Legrand, lyrics by director Jacques Demy, in the acclaimed sung-through musical The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, 1964.
Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) You May Speak Freely A key event in the sung-through musical by director Jacques Demy, cash-strapped shop-owner Madame Emery (Anne Vernon), with daughter Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve) seeks help from a jeweler (Harald Wolff) and meets Cassard (Marc Michel), in The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, 1964.
Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) We Must Try To Be Happy Young couple Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) and Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve) have just learned he must leave for two years national service, her mother (Anne Vernon) not so moved, in the "recitative" musical by director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, 1964.
Le Combat Dans L'Ile (1962) -- (Movie Clip) A Weapon Of War Arising in Paris after an intense, boozy night out, singer Anne (Romy Schneider), with the maid, discovers a bazooka in the closet, which her husband Clement (Jean-Louis Trintignant), returning from a meeting with his industrialist father, feels little need to explain, in Le Combat Dans L'Ile , 1962.

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