François Truffaut with Betty Philbin, Lord Mayor Pat Kerrigan and Dermot Breen
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Title
François Truffaut with Betty Philbin, Lord Mayor Pat Kerrigan and Dermot Breen
Subject
Cork Film Festival, François Truffaut, Betty Philbin, Lord Mayor, Pat Kerrigan, Dermot Breen, Miss Movie Girl
Description
This is a black and white photo of the French film director François Truffaut, Lord Mayor Pat Kerrigan, Miss Movie Girl Betty Philbin, and the film festival director Dermot Breen. They are standing in a huddle having a conversation; Breen is half-turned towards Philbin and the Lord Mayor while Truffaut looks on.
Born in 1932 François Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. His career spans forty years of filmmaking and in 1959 his autobiographical film The 400 Blows ushered in French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) cinema with the rejection of traditional film-making structures. Around the time of this photograph, dated 1973, Truffaut had released Day for Night (1973) which won him an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. His final film was Confidentially Yours (1983) which he made as an homage to his favourite director Alfred Hitchcock. He died a year later, age 52, from a brain tumor and is buried in Paris. Lord Mayor Pat Kerrigan also died young, age 51. He served as Lord Mayor of Cork for the 1973 to 1974 term of office and was a well-regarded Irish politician and trade union official affiliated with the Labour Party. He was nominated to the 13th Seanad by Liam Cosgrave, the then Taoiseach, where he served until 1977. Kerrigan won a seat for the Cork City constituency in the 1977 general election taking his seat that year.
Pat Kerrigan is the father of Cathal Kerrigan who worked as a librarian in University College Cork for many years before his retirement in 2020. Kerrigan recently collaborated with the artist Padraig Robinson on his book Gaze Against Imperialism (Metaflux Publishing, 2019).
Born in 1932 François Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. His career spans forty years of filmmaking and in 1959 his autobiographical film The 400 Blows ushered in French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) cinema with the rejection of traditional film-making structures. Around the time of this photograph, dated 1973, Truffaut had released Day for Night (1973) which won him an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. His final film was Confidentially Yours (1983) which he made as an homage to his favourite director Alfred Hitchcock. He died a year later, age 52, from a brain tumor and is buried in Paris. Lord Mayor Pat Kerrigan also died young, age 51. He served as Lord Mayor of Cork for the 1973 to 1974 term of office and was a well-regarded Irish politician and trade union official affiliated with the Labour Party. He was nominated to the 13th Seanad by Liam Cosgrave, the then Taoiseach, where he served until 1977. Kerrigan won a seat for the Cork City constituency in the 1977 general election taking his seat that year.
Pat Kerrigan is the father of Cathal Kerrigan who worked as a librarian in University College Cork for many years before his retirement in 2020. Kerrigan recently collaborated with the artist Padraig Robinson on his book Gaze Against Imperialism (Metaflux Publishing, 2019).
Creator
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival
Source
Cork Film Festival Collection
Publisher
University College Cork
Date
1973
Rights
This item is licenced with a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.
Format
Photo
TIFF
JPEG
TIFF
JPEG
Language
English, eng
Coverage
1973
Cork, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photo
Physical Dimensions
256 x 200mm
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “François Truffaut with Betty Philbin, Lord Mayor Pat Kerrigan and Dermot Breen,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 21, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/316.