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Michel Deville

Directing · 1931–2023 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Biography

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.

Known for

Filmography

2009Lesson movie from Michel Deville: Nude in the town and villageNarrator
2005The Art of Breaking UpDirector
2002Almost PeacefulDirector
2002A Day in the Life of French CinemaSelf
1999Sachs' DiseaseDirector
1997The Gods Must Be DaringDirector
1995Son of GascogneSelf
1994Life's Little TreasuresDirector
1992SweetheartDirector
1991Lest We ForgetDirector
1990Summer Night in TownDirector
1988La LectriceDirector
1986The NonentityDirector
1985Death in a French GardenDirector
1984Les CapricieuxDirector
1983The Little BunchDirector
1981Deep WaterDirector
1980A Sweet JourneyDirector
1978Dossier 51Director
1977The Apprentice HeelWriter
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimancheSelf
1974Spécial cinémaSelf
1974Love at the TopDirector
1973The Woman in BlueDirector
1972Midi trenteSelf
1971Raphael or the Debauched OneDirector
1970The Bear and the DollDirector
1969Bye Bye BarbaraAdaptation
1968The Diary of an Innocent BoyWriter
1967Tender SharksDirector
1966Soldier MartinAdaptation
1966The Mona Lisa Has Been StolenDirector
1964Lucky JoDirector
1964The Little MissesDirector
1963Girl's ApartmentDirector
1963Because, Because of a WomanDirector
1962Adorable LiarDirector
1961Tonight or NeverDirector
1959DiscoramaSelf
1958A Bullet in the Gun BarrelDirector
1955RazziaSecond Assistant Director
1954The Secrets of the BedAssistant Director

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