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a. The directors
Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963), French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. La belle et la bê te (Beauty and the Beast, 1946), Orphé e (1950), and Les enfants terribles (1950) Malle, Louis (1932-2019), French director of influential and often controversial motion pictures Zazie dans le Mé tro (Zazie, 1960); Le Souffle au Coeur (A Murmur of the Heart, 1971); Au Revoir, les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) Truffaut, Franç ois (1932-1984), French motion-picture director and critic, a leader of the nouvelle vague (new wave); 400 Blows (1959), The Last Metro (1980) Renoir, Jean (1894-1979), French actor and motion-picture director, one of the master filmmakers of world cinema, son of impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir; Nana (1926), Madame Bovary (1934), Grand Illusion (1937)