Comic Visionary

Michel Deville

1931–2023Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France1958–present34 films

ComedyDramaCrimeRomance

Also wrote 23 screenplays ↗

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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.

Full Filmography

Lesson movie from Michel Deville: Nude in the town and village

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The Art of Breaking Up

Almost Peaceful

Sachs' Disease

As Screenwriter

1968The Diary of an Innocent BoyWriter 1966Soldier MartinAdaptation 1973The Woman in BlueWriter 1969Bye Bye BarbaraAdaptation 1985Death in a French GardenWriter 1964Lucky JoScreenplay

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