Paul Vecchiali

Vecchiali at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Paul Vecchiali (28 April 1930 – 18 January 2023) was a French filmmaker and author.

Biography

Vecchiali was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. He spent his childhood in Toulon^[citation needed]. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war^[citation needed].

His cinema took as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone^[citation needed]. His best-known films are arguably Rosa la rose and Encore.[1] His films were 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]

Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, at the age of 92.[3]

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 [1]
3. "Le cinéaste Paul Vecchiali est mort". Les Inrockuptibles. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2023.

Video recording of a lecture by film critic Anton Mazurov at the Institut Francais 12 2023: "Paul Vecchiali - the heir to the era of Jean Renoir" (rus)==External links==

• Paul Vecchiali at IMDb