Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Born: April 8, 1932
in Auxerre, Yonne, France
Jean-Paul Rappeneau (born 8 April 1932) is a French film director and screenwriter.

He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le métro in 1960 and Vie privée in 1961. In 1964, he was co-screenwriter for L'Homme de Rio, which starred Jean-Paul Belmondo.

The first film that he both wrote and directed was A Matter of Resistance in 1965. Although it was a great critical and popular success, he did not make another film until 1971, when he directed Les Mariés de l'an II, again starring Belmondo and Marlène Jobert.

Since 1975, Rappeneau has written only for his own films, including Le Sauvage, starring Yves Montand and Tout feu, tout flamme (1981), again with Montand, who co-starred with Isabelle Adjani.

In 1990, Rappeneau directed a deluxe Technicolor film version of Cyrano de Bergerac, his adaptation of the classic French play by Edmond Rostand, starring Gérard Depardieu. Rappeneau's film version is the most elaborate film version of the play ever made, and one of the most expensive French films ever produced. It is the only rendition of the play in the original French to be released widely. At the 1991 César Awards, Rappeneau won the César Award for Best Director and César Award for Best Film.

The 2003 comedy Bon voyage, co-written with Patrick Modiano, again starred Depardieu, this time with Isabelle Adjani. The film was nominated 11 times at the 2004 César Awards.

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Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2023
Type: Movie
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a “cold blonde actress”, thanks to great interviews of many artists who crossed her path.
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Title: Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Character: Self
Released: March 24, 2022
Type: Movie
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Belmondo by Belmondo
Title: Belmondo by Belmondo
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s movies drew over 130 million people into cinemas. This logbook takes us back to sets and countries, from where we can revisit the films in reference and find out about his fruitful collaborations with various directors. Paul Belmondo will lead the investigation, meeting the stars and his father’s friends (eye-witnesses all) and questioning his father about his journey, sharing it with us so we can discover the man and his story like never before.
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Title: Henri Langlois vu par...
Character: Self
Released: July 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
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Les Aventures d'Adrien: L'Affaire Catalan
Title: Les Aventures d'Adrien: L'Affaire Catalan
Character: Self
Released: May 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Interviews with crew and cast from "That Man from Rio".
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A City Runs Through the Festival
Title: A City Runs Through the Festival
Character: Self
Released: April 11, 2007
Type: Movie
A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.
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Title: Leçon de Cinéma
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2004
Type: TV
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Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
Title: Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
Character: Self
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews, recorded shortly before his death, director Claude Sautet gives us a fascinating lesson in cinema. Through his thirteen films, he tells about his career and his work as a director.
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Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
Title: Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
Character: Self
Released: September 18, 1978
Type: Movie
A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are also interviewed
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV