Paul Vecchiali
Director · 1930 – 2023 · Ajaccio, Corse-du-Sud, France
Paul Vecchiali (April 28, 1930 - January 18, 2023) was a French filmmaker and author.
Movies18
Movie7.5DramaRomanceThough married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
MovieDocumentary
Movie4.3DramaUnfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.
Movie7.018 years after his father died of cancer a man discovers the diary of his illness.
Maladie
1978 · 3 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryDanielle Darrieux - icon and actress of the century: as a 16-year-old, the French actress perfectly embodied what we would call an "It Girl" today. She conquered Hollywood at a young age with elegance and charm. She defied the taboos of patriarchal society. The documentary takes a look back at Darrieux's 80-year career.
Danielle Darrieux : Il est poli d'être gai !
2019 · 8 votes
Movie5.8DramaA theater actress leaves her show to retire with her sick son to her childhood city.
Un soupçon d'amour
2020 · 10 votes
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.
Biette
2013
Movie4.2DramaRomanceOdile suspects her husband, Jean, is cheating. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor, Daniel, who she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman, Albert, will make love with her. But there will be unexpected consequences: Odile and Daniel will be bound forever by an irrepressible love.
MovieA film in which the house is itself a fundamental element and in which Vecchiali assumes the role of a recurring character, who responds by diverse names. It is the film of Vecchiali in which the representation of the ghosts is literal, in the bodies and spirits of the director and Edit Scob.
Movie5.5ComedyFrench independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is trying to complete his latest project, a dramatic love story about a young couple whose relationship is complicated by the man's addiction to drugs. Short on funds, Vecchiali approaches the National Cinema Center, who offer loans and grants to independent filmmakers whom they believe are deserving. The NCC is less than impressed with Vecchiali's latest script, and they turn him down, just as they have done a number of times in the past. Angry and determined that the NCC will never break the spirit of another director, Vecchiali and his crew block out a plan to assassinate the nine members of the funding board, though the press and public seem more bemused than outraged by the sudden rash of killings.
À vot' bon cœur
2005 · 2 votes
Movie5.8DramaLaurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging around him , Rodolphe has but one obsession: meeting Marguerite again, the first love of his life.
Movie5.9RomanceDramaA man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Movie6.2DramaOn Paul's initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul's objective is to win her back.
Trous de mémoire
1985 · 6 votes
MovieDramaAfter moving to Provence, Vecchiali started shooting a series of films that have Villa Mayerling as their main focus. Esotericism and intrigues bath the film around the character of Alain, a shady summer worker.
Movie5.0Drama"Train de vies" crosses a series of characters who, in pairs, confess to each other their innermost desires and their most secret memories.
Movie5.6DramaA cinephile meets his favourite film maker on a beach in Ramatuelle. He proposes a film project to the director based on the painful adventures that he has just experienced. The two men work on the scenes, each in its own way. The film maker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the shooting is not good. But perhaps there's another reason not to leave the good adventure.
Bareback ou la Guerre des sens
2006 · 9 votes
Movie1.0ComedyIn the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris’s famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of screenings, lectures and performances that amounted to a counter-canonical history of French cinema. During the ensuing merriment (entitled Beaubourg, la dernière Major !) audience members were invited to observe the daily making of this film, directed by Bozon and written by Axelle Ropert, about an inexperienced young journalist (Laure Marsac) sent to the Pompidou to interview a maverick artistic impresario (Thomas Chabrol). The result is an unexpected love story that is also a record of this landmark exhibition, featuring cameos by Raul Ruiz, Paul Vecchiali, Luc Moullet and more !
L'Imprésario
2010 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryLaurent Achard set up his camera on the set of Paul Vecchiali’s film Le Cancre to capture the director’s creative power. Although Vecchiali’s precision is impressive, Achard also shows moments where his collaborators’ input is essential. Under the director’s eye, the stars are becoming actors again, and Achard revives the heritage of Vecchiali’s '70s and '80s production studio Diagonale.
Un, parfois deux
2016 · 1 votes