Michel Deville
Biography
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 Claude 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.
Personal Details
Movies (38)
Lesson movie from Michel Deville: Nude in the town and village
as Narrator
2009
The Art of Breaking Up
Director (Directing)
2005
Almost Peaceful
Director (Directing)
2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Self
2002
Sachs' Disease
Director (Directing)
1999
The Gods Must Be Daring
Director (Directing)
1997
Son of Gascogne
as Self
1995
Life's Little Treasures
Director (Directing)
1994
Sweetheart
Director (Directing)
1992
Against Oblivion
Director (Directing)
1991
Summer Night in Town
Director (Directing)
1990
La Lectrice
Director (Directing)
1988
The Nonentity
Director (Directing)
1986
Death in a French Garden
Director (Directing)
1985
Les Capricieux
Director (Directing)
1984
The Little Bunch
Director (Directing)
1983
Deep Water
Director (Directing)
1981
A Sweet Journey
Director (Directing)
1980
Dossier 51
Director (Directing)
1978
The Apprentice Heel
Writer (Writing)
1977
Love at the Top
Director (Directing)
1974
The Woman in Blue
Director (Directing)
1973
Raphael or the Debauched One
Director (Directing)
1971
The Bear and the Doll
Director (Directing)
1970
Bye Bye Barbara
Adaptation (Writing)
1969
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Writer (Writing)
1968
Tender Sharks
Director (Directing)
1967
Soldier Martin
Adaptation (Writing)
1966
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Director (Directing)
1966
Lucky Jo
Director (Directing)
1964
The Little Misses
Director (Directing)
1964
Girl's Apartment
Director (Directing)
1963
Because, Because of a Woman
Director (Directing)
1963
Adorable Liar
Director (Directing)
1962
Tonight or Never
Director (Directing)
1961
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Director (Directing)
1958
Razzia
Second Assistant Director (Directing)
1955
The Secrets of the Bed
Assistant Director (Directing)
1954
