Editing Jacques Prévert (section)

==Films==
Prévert wrote a number of screenplays for the film director [[Marcel Carné]]. Among them were the scripts for {{Lang|fr|[[Drôle de drame]]}} (''Bizarre, Bizarre'', 1937), ''[[Quai des brumes]]'' (''Port of Shadows'', 1938), ''[[Le Jour se lève]]'' (''Daybreak'', 1939), ''[[Les Visiteurs du soir]]'' (''The Night Visitors'', 1942) and ''[[Children of Paradise]]'' ({{Lang|fr|Les Enfants du Paradis}}, 1945). The last of these regularly gains a high placing in [[List of films considered the best|lists of best films ever]] and earned him an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay.<ref name=bio>[http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Pr-vert-Jacques.html Encyclopedia of World Biography: Jacques Prévert]</ref><ref>[http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-greatest-foreign-language-films/les-enfants-du-paradis-1945 50 Greatest Foreign Language Films] [[Total Film]], The modern guide to movies</ref>

His poems were the basis for a film by the director and documentarian [[Joris Ivens]], ''[[The Seine Meets Paris]]'' (''La Seine a rencontré Paris'', 1957), about the [[River Seine]]. The poem was read as narration during the film by singer [[Serge Reggiani]].<ref>[http://www.ivens.nl/film57.htm La Seine a rencontré Paris] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414183825/http://www.ivens.nl/film57.htm |date=14 April 2012 }}</ref> In 2007, a filmed adaptation of Prévert's poem "To Paint the Portrait of a Bird" was directed by Seamus McNally, featuring T.D. White and Antoine Ray- English translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Prévert had a long working relationship with [[Paul Grimault]], also a member of [[Groupe Octobre]]. Together they wrote the screenplays of a number of animated movies, starting with the short "The Little Soldier" ("Le Petit Soldat", 1947). They worked together until his death in 1977, when he was finishing ''[[Le Roi et l'oiseau|The King and the Mocking Bird]]'' (''Le Roi et l'Oiseau''), a second version of which was released in 1980. Prévert adapted several [[Hans Christian Andersen]] tales into animated or mixed live-action/animated movies, often in versions loosely connected to the original. Two of these were with Grimault, including ''The King and the Mocking Bird'', while another was with his brother [[Pierre Prévert]] ([[:fr:Pierre Prévert|fr]]).