17/10/2002 - The French community pays tribute to the filmmaker recently died with a digitally remastered DVD of his Rendez-vous à Bray

Belgium’s French Community is to pay tribute to the late Andrè Delvaux, the “father of Belgian Cinema”, by earmarking Euros 125,000 to produce and publish a DVD of one of Delvaux’s most celebrated films, Rendez-Vous à Bray. Delvaux died earlier this month at the age of 76.
Based on a mystery novel by Julien Gracq Rendez-Vous à Bray was made in 1972 and stars Mathieu Carrière, Anna Karina and Roger van Hool. It was the first of his films that Delvaux himself chose to be converted into the digital format. The French Community’s funding will cover the costs of digitalising the film, searching out the original documentation (such as interviews and the backstage material), editing, as well as paying for the print run and the promotional campaign which will be managed by Belgium’s film library, the Cinémathèque, where André Delvaux served as deputy president for many years.

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