Also a scenarist, film critic, theorist, and journalist.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two,
1945-1985". Pages 75-78. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company,
1988.
His text "Naissance d'une nouvelle avant-garde: la caméra-stylo" is
sometimes considered as the text that eventually gave birth to the New
Wave movies.
He received in 1994 the René-Clair prize of the Académie française for his career.