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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) France |
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| Children | Mona Achache |
Jean Achache (born 1952) is a French director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer. [1]
Jean Achache | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) France |
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| Years active | 1974–present |
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Jean Achache (born 1952) is a French director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer. [1]
Jean Achache began his career as a filmmaker in the mid-1970s alongside Robert Enrico as an assistant director for Le Vieux Fusil and The Secret . [2] In the eighties, he collaborated with Bertrand Tavernier on films like Death Watch or A Sunday in the Country . Jean Achache then turned to the realization of his own works through clips, [3] documentaries like Diabolo's Workshop with Terry Gilliam [4] and films like the adaptation of the novel Un soir au Club by Christian Gailly in 2009. [5]
In 2006, he published his first novel, Juste une nuit at Éditions du Masque. [6] ISBN 2-7024-3296-4
Achache was married to French writer and photographer Carole Achache, with whom he had a daughter, Mona Achache, born on 18 March 1981. [7] [8]
In 2023, Achache portrayed himself in a biographical docudrama about Carole Achache, Little Girl Blue , which was directed by their daughter, Mona Achache. [7] [9]
Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter best known for making the Oscar-winning short An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961).
François de Roubaix was a French film score composer. In a decade, he created a musical style with new sounds, until his death in 1975.
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Paul Antoine Alphonse Bisciglia was a French film actor.
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Jean-Loup Philippe is a French actor, writer and director of film and theatre He is best known for his role in Jean Rollin's 1975 horror classic Lèvres de sang. He had collaborated will Rollin on several occasions, having worked on Les paumées du petit matin (1981), Killing Car (1993) and La nuit des horloges (2007).
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Un soir au club is a novel by Christian Gailly published on 7 January 2001 by éditions de Minuit which won the Prix du Livre Inter prize the next year. The novel was adapted for the screen and became the 2009 film Un soir au club directed by Jean Achache.
Un soir au club is a 2009 French film directed by Jean Achache based on the novel of the same name Un soir au club by Christian Gailly.
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Christian Gailly was a French writer.
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Little Girl Blue is a 2023 biographical docudrama film written and directed by Mona Achache based on the life of her mother, the writer and photographer Carole Achache, starring Marion Cotillard as Carole Achache and Mona Achache as herself. The film is a co-production between France and Belgium and had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section on 21 May 2023, where it competed for the Golden Eye and was well received by critics. The title comes from the song of the same name written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The film was released theatrically in France by Tandem on 15 November 2023, and in Belgium by Galeries Distribution on 3 April 2024.
Carole Hélène Marthe Andrée Achache was a French writer, photographer and actress. She was the daughter of French writer Monique Lange and the mother of French-Moroccan film director Mona Achache. She appeared in films such as The Gypsy (1975), Special Section (1975), Lumière (1976), Mr. Klein (1976), Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977), and Death of a Corrupt Man (1977) under the name Carole Lange. She later worked as a still photographer in the films Other People's Money (1978), A Week's Vacation (1980), The Trout (1982), and Un soir au club (2009). As an author, Achache published five books.
Valiant Hearts is a 2021 World War II drama film written and directed by Mona Achache from a screenplay she co-wrote with Christophe Offenstein, Jean Cottin, Anne Berest, and Valérie Zenatti, starring Camille Cottin. The film is a co-production between France and Belgium and it is based on the real-life story of Achache's grandmother, Suzanne Achache–Wiznitzer, who was a Jewish child placed in foster care during World War II to escape the Holocaust. The film made its world premiere at the War On Screen Film Festival on 1 October 2021. It was released theatrically in France by BAC Films on 11 May 2022.
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