Michel Deville

Michel Deville
Born	13 April 1931 (1931-04-13) (age 80) Boulogne-sur-Seine, France
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1958 - present

Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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 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.^{[citation needed]}

One of Deville's comedies, La Lectrice ("The Reader") was probably his biggest success with international audiences. La Lectrice is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually finds herself unwittingly attracting a clientele of fetishists who enjoyed being read to. At one time his films were difficult to find in North America but presently(2007) seven of his films are available in DVD in the U.S.

His 1980 film Le Voyage en douce was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1] Five years later, his film Death in a French Garden was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

Partial filmography

• Un monde presque paisible (Almost Peaceful), 2002
• La Maladie de Sachs, 1999
• Le Fils de Gascogne (Son of Gascogne), 1995
• La Lectrice, 1988
• Péril en la demeure (Death in a French Garden (UK title) and Peril (US title), 1985
• Eaux profondes (1981)
• Le Voyage en douce (Sentimental Journey), 1980
• Le dossier 51, 1978
• Le Mouton enragé, 1974
• La Femme en bleu (The Woman in Blue), 1973
• Raphaël ou le débauché, 1971
• L'Ours et la poupée (The Bear and the Doll), 1969 (with Brigitte Bardot)
• Benjamin (1968)
• Zärtliche Haie (1967)
• Tonight or Never (1961)

References

1. ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Le Voyage en douce". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081729/awards. Retrieved 2010-08-21. 
2. ^ "Berlinale: 1985 Programme". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1985/02_programm_1985/02_Programm_1985.html. Retrieved 2011-01-12. 

External links

• Michel Deville at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Deville, Michel
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Short description	Film director, Screenwriter
Date of birth	1931-4-13
Place of birth	Boulogne-sur-Seine, France
Date of death
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