Marcel Carné (1906–1996)

Les Enfants du Paradis is the definitive film about romanticism, in which it always seems possible to jump through the screen and live there, in a state of luminous anguish.
In Paris, if you come across the grave of director Marcel Carne, note that buried with him is actor Roland Lesaffre, who was briefly in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, and called his relationship with Carne "homosensual".