Agostini, Philippe

(August II, 1910, Paris, France - October 21, 2001, Paris, France)

   After completing his studies at the Ecole de Photographie (Photography School), he soon became assist­ant cameraman to masters of light Georges Périnal and Armand Thirard. A cinematographer from 1934 (Itto, Jean-Benoît Lévy, Marie Epstein) to 1957 (Les Trois font la Paire, Clément Duhour, Sacha Guitry), he collaborated with some of the best directors of his time: Marc Allégret (1936 Sous les Yeux d'Occident / Razumov), Julien Duvivier (1937 Un Carnet de Bal / UK: Christine / USA: Life Dances On / Dance of Life / Dance Program), Marcel L'Herbier (1938 La Tragédie impériale), Marcel Carné (1938 Le Jour se lève / USA: Daybreak, 1946 Les Portes de la Nuit / USA: Gates of the Night), Claude Autant-Lara (1942 Le Mariage de Chiffon, Lettres d'Amour / USA: Love Letters, 1943 Douce / USA: Love Story, 1946 Sylvie et le Fantôme / UK: Sylvia and the Ghost / USA: Sylvie and the Phantom), Louis Daquin (1944 Premier de Cordée), Robert Bresson (1945 Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne / USA: Ladies in the Park / The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne), Roger Leenhardt (1948 Les Dernières Vacances / USA: The Last Vacation), Jean Grémillon (1949 Pattes blanches / UK & USA: Whte Paws), Marcel Pagnol (1951 Topaze), Max Ophuls (1951 Le Plaisir / UK and USA: House of Pleasure / Pleasure), Jules Dassin (1955 Du Rififi chez les Hommes / UK and USA: Rififi; France / Italy), and Sacha Guitry (1955 Si Paris nous était conté). He co-wrote a Brigitte Bardot's vehicle (1956 La Mariée est trop belle / UK: The Bride Is Too Beautiful / USA: Her Bridal Night / The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful, Pierre Gaspard-Huit). His wife was French actress Odette Joyeux.

 Filmography

1953 ◘ La Nuit de Pâques (medium-length)

        ◘ Ordinations (short)

1956 ◘ Le Corbusier (short; documentary)

        ◘ Le Naïf aux Quarante Enfants (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Tu es Pierre (documentary)

        ◘ Le Dialogue des Carmélites / I dialoghi delle Carmelitane / UK: The Carmelites (co-director with Raymond-Léopold Bruckberger; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Rencontres / Poker col Diavolo (also adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ La Soupe aux Poulets (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Le Pain du Ciel (short)

        ◘ Le Vrai Visage de Thérèse de Lisieux (documentary; short)

1971 ◘ La Petite Fille à la Recherche du Printemps

 Television Filmography

        ◘ L'Âge heureux (8 X 26')

        ◘ La Bonne Peinture (also screenwriter)

        ◘ 1969 Le Trésor des Hollandais (13 X 26')

1973 ◘ Témoignages (episode "Eve et l'Inventeur"; France / Switzerland / Canada)

1975 ◘ L'Âge en Fleur (16 X 26'; also co-screenwriter)