Suzanne Baron

Suzanne Baron

Editor. Born 18 June 1927 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. Died 20 December 1995.

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Born
18 June 1927, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Died
20 December 1995

Biography

Suzanne Baron (1927–1995) was a French film editor. She began her career in the early 1950s and worked across narrative features, documentaries and shorts for five decades.

Baron collaborated extensively with Louis Malle, editing fourteen of his films including The Fire Within (1963), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Lacombe, Lucien (1974), Atlantic City (1980) and My Dinner with Andre (1981). She also edited Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958), Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum (1979), and films by Werner Herzog and Margarethe von Trotta. Earlier in her career she worked with ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and studied musique concrète.

Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, Suzanne Baron is known for Mon Oncle (1958), Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), The Tin Drum (1979), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Pretty Baby (1978), The Fire Within (1963), Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Spirits of the Dead (1968).