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{{Short description|French film director, author}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| image =
| name = Nicole Védrès
| birth_name = Nicole Rais
| birth_date = 4 September 1911
| birth_place = [[Paris]], France
| death_date = 20 November 1965
| death_place = Paris, France
| burial_place = Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
| occupation = Film director
| yearsactive = 1947–1953
| spouse = Marcel Cravenne
}}
'''Nicole Védrès''' (4 September 1911 – 20 November 1965), born '''Nicole Henriette Désirée Charlotte Cahen dit Nathan dit Rais''', was a French author, columnist, essayist, journalist, screenwriter and [[film director]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=7029.html |title=Nicole Védrès |work=Allocine |accessdate=3 May 2019}}</ref>

== Life and work ==
Védrès was born on 4 September 1911 in Paris. An important figure in the post-war French cultural world, she signed several articles under different names, including “Nathan” and “Rais.”

Nicole Vedrès was the daughter of [[:fr:Jules_Rais|Jules Rais]], doctor of law, librarian of the Chamber of Deputies and art critic, and Ludmila Savitzky, of Russian origin and who was a translator of works by James Joyce.

Although Vedrès studied international law, she began a career as a journalist in the 1930s, writing for women's magazines and literary journals such as the ''[[Mercure de France]]''.<ref name=":2" /> During the [[World War II|war]], she wrote in ''Le Rouge et le Bleu'' in 1941–1942.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Allain|first=Jérôme|date=1 December 2018|title=Retracer l’acte de création : Les Niaoulis (1966) de Nicole Vedrès|url=https://journals.openedition.org/traduire/1534|journal=Traduire. Revue française de la traduction|language=fr|issue=239|pages=47–52|doi=10.4000/traduire.1534|issn=0395-773X|doi-access=free|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

=== Filmmaker ===
Védrès began her career as a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker in 1947, with ''[[Paris 1900 (film)|Paris 1900]],'' where, assisted by [[Yannick Bellon]] and [[Alain Resnais]], she explored the archives of current affairs of the [[Belle Époque]]. The film premiered at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] and won both the [[Louis Delluc Prize|Louis-Delluc Prize]]. and the Méliès Prize.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=PARIS 1900|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/paris-1900|access-date=29 January 2022|website=Festival de Cannes 2021|language=en}}</ref>

She also embarked on a career as a novelist and published seven novels in all, most of them published by [[Éditions Gallimard]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Nicole Védrès (1911-1965)|url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12419616/nicole_vedres/|access-date=29 January 2022|website=data.bnf.fr|language=fr}}</ref>

In 1949, her film ''[[La Vie Commence Demain|Life Begins Tomorrow]]'' proposes in a sensitive and modern way, like a docufiction, to watch [[Jean-Pierre Aumont]] who portrays a young provincial commercial employee disgusted by his time, at the meeting of French intellectuals: [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[André Gide]], [[Le Corbusier]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Jean Rostand]], [[Irène Joliot-Curie]], [[André S. Labarthe|André Labarthe]], [[Daniel Lagache]], Jacques Prévertand and others are also mentioned.<ref>{{Cite web|last=BBFC|title=La Vie Commence Demain|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/la-vie-commence-demain-film-qxnzzxq6vlgtnty3odgx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919012439/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/la-vie-commence-demain-film-qxnzzxq6vlgtnty3odgx|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 September 2021|access-date=29 January 2022|website=www.bbfc.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>

She was a regular contributor to the literary television program ''Lectures for All'', which she hosted from 1957 with Pierre Dumayet.<ref name=":2" />

=== Personal life ===
In 1962, Védrès married the director Marcel Cravenne (also known as Marcel Cohen).

She died three years later, 20 November 1965 at the age of 54. Her play, ''Les Canaques'', based on her earlier work ''Les Niaoulis,'' was published soon after her death in 1966.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Allain|first=Jérôme|title=Sur la trace de Nicole Vedrès|url=https://paris1900.hypotheses.org/75|access-date=29 January 2022|website=Sur la trace de Nicole Vedrès|language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":3" />

==Selected works==

=== Films ===
Source:<ref name=":1"/>
* ''[[Paris 1900 (film)|Paris 1900]]'' (1947)<ref name=":0"/>
* ''[[La Vie Commence Demain]]'' (1950) released in the US as ''Life Begins Tomorrow''
* ''Aux frontières de l'homme'' (1953) co-directed with [[Jean Rostand]]

=== Novels ===
Source:<ref name=":1" />
* ''The Labyrinth or Sir Arthur's Garden'', Fontaine, 1946.
* ''Christophe or the Choice of Arms'', Seuil, 1948.
* ''The Red Strings'', Gallimard, 1953.
* ''The Executor'', Gallimard, 1958.
* ''The Distant Beast'', Gallimard, 1960.
* ''The End of September'', Gallimard, 1962.
* ''The Hotel d'Albe'', Gallimard, 1963.

=== Theater ===
Source:<ref name=":1"/>
* ''The Canaques'', Seuil, 1966.

== Awards ==

* [[Louis Delluc Prize|Louis-Delluc Prize]] and Méliès Prize for ''Paris 1900''<ref name=":1" />
* Durchon-Louvet Prize from the French Academy in 1961 for her life's work<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0904924|Nicole Védrès}}

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[[Category:1911 births]]
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[[Category:Film directors from Paris]]
[[Category:French women film directors]]
[[Category:20th-century French women]]

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