Paul Vecchiali

Paul Vecchiali (born 28 April 1930 in Ajaccio, Corsica, France) is a French filmmaker and author.

Vecchiali at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Biography

He spent his childhood in Toulon. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war.

His cinema takes as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone. His best-known films are arguably Rosa la rose and Encore.[1] His films are notably low-budget.[1]

In 1987, he became the first director to link AIDS to homosexuality in a French film with his film Encore.[2]

Filmography
  • Les Ruses du diable (1965)
  • L'Étrangleur (1972)
  • Femmes Femmes (1974)
  • Change pas de main (1975)
  • La Machine (1977)
  • Corps à cœur (1978)
  • That's Life (C'est la vie) (1981)
  • At the Top of the Stairs (1983)
  • Rosa la rose, fille publique (1985)
  • Encore / Once More (1988)
  • The Guys in the Cafe (1989)
  • Wonder Boy (1994)
  • Zone Franche (1996)
  • Love Reinvented (1997)
  • Tears of AIDS (1999)
  • A Vot' Bon Cœur (2004)
  • A Diagonal Portrait of Paul Vecchiali (2005)
  • Le Cancre (2016)

Bibliography
  • Vesperales (2008)

References
  1. Romain Charbon, 'Vesperales', in Têtu, October 2008, issue 137, page 32
  2. Brigitte Rollet and James S. Williams, 'Visions of Excess: Filming/Writing the Gay Self in Collard's Savage Nights, in Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995, ed. Owen Heathcote, Alex Hughes, James S. Williams, Berg Publishers, 1998, page 195
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