Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille was born on Sep 16, 1897 in France. Georges Bataille's big-screen debut came with A Day in the Country directed by Jean Renoir in 1946, strarring Seminarian (uncredited). Georges Bataille is known for A Day in the Country directed by Jean Renoir, Sylvia Bataille stars as Henriette and Georges D'Arnoux as Henri. The upcoming new movie Georges Bataille plays is Ma mère which will be released on May 19, 2004.

Bataille's difficult childhood (his father blind and paralyzed, died when Georges was a teen; his mother attempted suicide) fuels his last novel, Ma mère, discovered after Georges Bataille's death. In the novel, a pious Catholic boy, planning to become a priest to spite his controlling, atheist father, reveres his free-willed mother. When the father dies, the unfettered mother propels her teenage son into a wild erotic journey. Georges Bataille himself was discharged from the Army during World War I for tuberculosis, studied to be a monk, then renounced Catholicism. He often battled poor health.