Elliott Erwitt… And life bursts out laughing.
Here we are cheered up, like Jack Lemmon dancing as Daphne with a rose in his mouth, despite the killers, in
Some like it hot
(1959) or discovering love and Italy in
Avanti
at the time of the funeral (1972) , two irresistible masterpieces by Billy Wilder.
A Polish Jew, the filmmaker was born Samuel Wilder in 1906 in what was Austria-Hungary.
Apprentice journalist in Vienna, he was a socialite dancer in Berlin before approaching the world of cinema, fleeing Germany for Paris, then for America with a simple tourist visa.
All his characters will grow in his head where mischief chases misfortune, where Mitteleuropa humor is the antidote to almost everything.
I don't get up in the morning saying to myself: I've decided to be funny.
You just have to look at them.
things are funny
Elliott Erwitt
Son of Russian Jewish parents who immigrated to France, Elliott Erwitt was born Elio Romano Erwitz in Paris on July 26, 1928. His family emigrated to Milan when he was a child, lived there in the perilous 1930s, then fled to New York in 1939. , on the eve of the war.
Destinies…
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