Round 7: Tossup 16

The opening credits of a film this director dedicated to Max Ophuls appear over a sequence of a man in a white suit and cowboy hat driving a white convertible down a seaside road. A film by this director follows a cabaret dancer whose suitors include the American sailor Frankie and the Frenchman Michel, the latter of whom abandoned her seven years prior. After moving to (*) Los Angeles, this director tied together the plots of his earlier films in his English-language debut Model Shop. This director’s first feature film Lola preceded two sung-through musicals starring Catherine Deneuve noted for their vivid, saturated colors. (10[1])For 10 points, name this director who was married to Agnes Varda and broadly associated with the French New Wave, who created The Young Girls of Rochefort and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. ■END■

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