Cinema Masterclass with Claude Lanzmann
Resistant, journalist, bestselling author, philosopher, film director… Claude Lanzmann (87) has led many different lives, all equally fascinating. Most famous for his documentary film Shoah, a unique depiction of the Holocaust described by The Guardian as “one of the most remarkable films ever made”, the French intellectual will give a rare masterclass dedicated to his cinematographic work on Monday 20 February at Ciné Lumière: an unmissable treat for anyone interested in History and films…
One of the last surviving great French intellectuals, Claude Lanzmann cuts a fascinating figure. Born in 1925, he joined the Resistance in 1943 while still at school, helping to build a communist Resistant network in Clermont-Ferrand and taking part in fights against the Nazis in the Auvergne mountains. After the war, he became a close friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir -with whom he had a passionate affair- leading with them an anti-colonialist campaign in the 1950s opposing the French war in Algeria. His autobiography, The Patagonian Hare, was a massive bestseller in France, translated into ten languages. To this day, he remains editor in chief of Les Temps Modernes, the cult French cultural magazine founded by Sartre.