Louis Delluc

Born on October 14, 1890, in Cadouin, Dordogne, Louis Delluc became a French writer, dramatist, screenwriter, editor, photographer, film critic, and director. He worked across several forms, but he is especially remembered as one of the key figures who took cinema seriously as an art at a time when the medium was still very young.

Delluc wrote influential film criticism and also made films himself, giving him a rare perspective as both observer and creator. His career connected literature and cinema, and his name remained important after his death through the Louis-Delluc Prize, established in 1936 to honor the best French film each year.

He died in Paris on March 22, 1924, at only 33 years old. Even with such a short life, he left a lasting mark on French cultural history and on the way people think and write about movies.