Pierre Louÿs

Pierre Louÿs was born on Dec 10, 1870 in Belgium. Pierre Louÿs's big-screen debut came with The Woman and the Puppet directed by Jacques de Baroncelli in 1929. Pierre Louÿs is known for That Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel, Fernando Rey stars as Mathieu and Carole Bouquet as Conchita. The upcoming new movie Pierre Louÿs plays is Curiosa which will be released on Aug 13, 2021.

Louÿs' refined evocations, not to say re-inventions, of the society of Hellenistic Greece proved extremely popular in both France and the English speaking world, especially due to the somewhat risque nature of such works as Aphrodite (1896) and Les Chansons de Bilitis (1894). He lived his entire life in Paris, travelling occasionally around the Mediterranean coast where so many of his works of art were set. He had close friends among the writers of his day but otherwise kept among himself rather apart from literary cliques except for that of Mallarme.