Paul Vecchiali (28 April 1930 – 18 January 2023) was a French filmmaker and author.
Biography
editVecchiali was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. He spent his childhood in Toulon[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 arguably Rosa la rose and Encore.[1] His films were notably low-budget.[1]
In 1987, he became the first director to link AIDS to homosexuality in a French film with his film Encore.[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- ^ a b Romain Charbon, 'Vesperales', in Têtu, October 2008, issue 137, page 32
- ^ Brigitte Rollet and James S. Williams, 'Visions of Excess: Filming/Writing the Gay Self in Collard's Savage Nights, in Gay 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. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
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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