“Vive le Tour” chronicles the “Tour de France” and focuses on issues such as providing food for the racers, dealing with injuries and doping. “The films contain ebullience, whimsy, jet black humor, awe and unspeakable tragedy… A worshipful documentary of a sport made by a man who knew it intimately and loved it.” New York Times, 1962.
Director, screenwriter and producer. Born in France in 1932. He studied political sciences at the Sorbonne, but left it for IDHEC (Institut des hautes etudes cinematographiques). He started as a cameraman and co-director in Jacques Yves Cousteau’s film “The Silent World” (1956) which was awarded with Oscar and Golden Palm at Cannes Festival. The first independent work was the film “Elevator to the Gallows” (1958). The next film “The Lovers” (1958) with Jeanne Moreau in the title role was taken controversially because of erotic scenes, rather revealing as for that time. He broke the taboo topics in his following films “The Fire Within” (1963), “Murmur of the Heart” (1971), “Lacombe Lucien” (1974). Malle, who worked both in France and the United States, also belongs to the directors of the French “new wave” who were inherent in striving to adapt their own work experience and feeling. However, unlike other members of the “new wave”, he always aspired to variety of themes and genres. Malle also worked as a documentary director. Among his documentary films are Phantom India (1969), Humain, trop humain (1974), Place de la republique (1974), God's Country (1985) and others. Louis Malle died in Los Angeles in 1995.
