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Ghislain Cloquet

Born 18 April 1924 · Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium · Died 2 November 1981

Ghislain Cloquet (18 April 1924 – 2 November 1981) was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. Cloquet was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. He went to Paris to study and became a French citizen in 1940. Cloquet is known for his work with Robert Bresson, though he also collaborated with Claude Sautet, Jacques Demy, André Delvaux, Chris Marker, and Marguerite Duras. He shot Jacques Becker's last film, Le Trou, and then worked several times with Becker's son Jean, who was also Cloquet's brother-in-law. He also worked with several non-French directors, including Woody Allen (Love and Death), Arthur Penn (Four Friends) and, most notably, Roman Polanski, winning an Oscar (on his first nomination) for his work on Polanski's Tess, which he completed after the death of Geoffrey Unsworth. Cloquet married into the Becker filmmaking family (which included directors Jacques and Jean, cinematographer Étienne, and actress Françoise Fabian), when he wed Jacques Becker's daughter Sophie, then a script girl.

Known for

Love and Death
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Le Trou
Night and Fog
Donkey Skin
Au Hasard Balthazar
Tess
Mouchette
The Fire Within
The Big Risk
A Gentle Woman
The American Beauty
Four Friends
I Sent a Letter to My Love
Tess
The Secret Life of Plants
La Décharge
Monsieur Albert
Love and Death
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
Woman of the Ganges
Say it with Flowers
Nathalie Granger
Belle
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
At the Meeting with Joyous Death
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Appointment in Bray
Jaune, Le Soleil
Donkey Skin
The House of the Bories
Josef von Sternberg, A Retrospective
A Gentle Woman
Marry Me! Marry Me!
One Night... a Train
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Mouchette
Far from Vietnam
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
Au Hasard Balthazar
Mickey One
The Chicken
The Fire Within
Vive Le Tour
The Honors of War
Bells Without Joy
A Man Named Rocca
The American Beauty
The Big Risk
Le Trou
Le Bel Âge
Description of a Struggle
A Girl in a Pocket
The Mystery of Workshop 15
Night and Fog
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Statues Also Die
Hommes Des Oasis
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