Critic, literary reviewer and cofounder of the Cannes Film
Festival.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1949
Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1962
Magazine editor, he also co-founded the Prix Renaudot and Louis-Delluc. His famous exchanges with Jean-Louis Bory at the radio show Le Masque et la Plume were later adapted in 2011 by François Morel and Olivier Broche as the play Instants critiques.