![]() Pabst, and-perhaps her greatest influence-Max Ophüls. But fear not: A new 4K restoration of Audry’s 19th century lesbian romance, "Olivia" (1950), will be making the rounds in select venues nationwide a rare opportunity to see not only one of the most celebrated films in her oeuvre, but a very early piece of queer cinema history.īefore World War II, Audry worked as a script supervisor before graduating to an assistant director position for filmmakers such as Jean Dellanoy, G.W. As a result, most of Audry’s work is both in desperate need of restoration and extremely difficult to find, particularly for English speakers in need of subtitles. The long shadow cast by the French New Wave didn’t help, in part because her work embodied precisely the novel adaptation-reliant “cinema of quality” that Francois Truffaut denounced in one of his infamous written kick-offs to the movement. ![]() In an era when few women got the chance to be behind the camera, Audry’s womanhood worked against her, and also affected how she’s been (or not been) remembered. ![]()
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