Jean-Paul Civeyrac


Jean-Paul Civeyrac is a French director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises. This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003. Jean-Paul Civeyrac is professor at the French school, La Femis, and graduated from the University Lyon III.
Jean-Paul Civeyrac has discovered many young talents :
His movie À travers la forêt was presented at Festival Paris Cinéma and at Toronto International Film Festival 2005 September.
In his survey of contemporary French cinema, Tim Palmer discusses Civeyrac's career in the context of his teaching at the major French film school, la Fémis; Civeyrac's status as an "applied cinephile" in which he carefully cites and revives the aesthetics of historical filmmakers like Mizoguchi and Cocteau; his neglected situation outside France; and his position as a remarkably uncompromising director, whose films often refuse to differentiate between fantasy and diegetic reality.

Filmography

  1. Ni d’Eve ni d’Adam
  2. Les solitaires
  3. Fantômes
  4. Man's Gentle Love
  5. All the fine promises
  6. Tristesse beau visage
  7. À travers la forêt
  8. Ma belle rebelle
  9. Mon prince charmant
  10. Malika s'est envolée
  11. Des filles en noir
  12. Mon Amie Victoria
  13. A Paris Education''

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