French director Michel Deville, who has worked with Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli, among others, He died on February 16 at the age of 91 and was buried this Monday.his wife told AFP news agency.
“We announced it today because we wanted to meet in the privacy of our family and Michel hated ceremonies,” said his wife and collaborator Rosalinde Deville.
director like The Confessions of Doctor Sachs He died of “old age” according to his wife and was buried in the cemetery of Boulogne-Billancourt, “his city”, near Paris.
Deville has directed around thirty feature films and has received two César Awards (granted by the French Film Academy) from French Cinema for File 51 (1979, best screenplay) and for Danger in privacy (1986, best director).
He has obtained 16 international awards in his career. Among the most important, it should be noted the Silver Shell for best screenplay and also, for best direction, in San Sebastián 1999, for The Confessions of Doctor Sachs.
And in 1961 he participates in the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, with tonight or never, starring Anna Karina and Claude Rich. Laurent (Rich) was a theater director and his partner Valerie (Karina) was an aspiring actress. Their relationship starts to crack when Valerie doesn’t get the part in Laurent’s new play.
great adapter
Almost all of his films were based on literary works that he himself adapted, such as The reader (1988), starring another French star, Miou-Miou, o The Confessions of Doctor Sachs (1999), with Albert Dupontel, adaptation of the novel by Martin Winckler.
Michel Deville was born in April 1931 and learned the trade of filmmaking with his mentor Henri Decoin. In the 1970s he worked as a comedy director The Doll and the Brute, with Brigitte Bardot, one of the last films shot by the French star. And she also directed Isabelle Huppert in Deep water (1981), to Fanny Ardant in I touched it (1986).
Source: Clarin
