Paul Vecchiali
Paul Vecchiali(28 April 1930 – 18 January 2023) was a French filmmaker and author.
Biography
[edit]Vecchiali was born inAjaccio,Corsica, France. He spent his childhood inToulon[citation needed].His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war[citation needed].
His cinema took as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone[citation needed].His best-known films are arguablyRosa la roseandEncore.[1]His films were notably low-budget.[1]
In 1987, he became the first director to linkAIDStohomosexualityin a French film with his filmEncore.[2]
Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, at the age of 92.[3]
Filmography
[edit]- Les Ruses du diable(1965)
- L'Étrangleur(1972)
- Femmes Femmes(1974)
- Change pas de main(1975)
- La Machine(1977)
- Corps à cœur(1978)
- That's Life(C'est la vie) (1981)
- At the Top of the Stairs(1983)
- Rosa la rose, fille publique(1985)
- Encore / Once More(1988)
- The Guys in the Cafe(1989)
- Wonder Boy(1994)
- Zone Franche(1996)
- Love Reinvented(1997)
- Tears of AIDS(1999)
- A Vot' Bon Cœur(2004)
- A Diagonal Portrait of Paul Vecchiali(2005)
- Le Cancre(2016)
Bibliography
[edit]- Vesperales(2008)
References
[edit]- ^abRomain Charbon, 'Vesperales', inTêtu,October 2008, issue 137, page 32
- ^Brigitte Rollet and James S. Williams, 'Visions of Excess: Filming/Writing the Gay Self in Collard'sSavage Nights,inGay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995,ed. Owen Heathcote, Alex Hughes, James S. Williams, Berg Publishers, 1998, page 195[1]
- ^"Le cinéaste Paul Vecchiali est mort".Les Inrockuptibles. 18 January 2023.Retrieved19 January2023.
Video recording of a lecture by film critic Anton Mazurov at the Institut Francais 12 2023: "Paul Vecchiali - the heir to the era of Jean Renoir" (rus)==External links==
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