Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

46 • BAHLOUL, ABDELKRIM
1987 L’Homme voilé (also screenwriter)
1991 Hors la Vie / La vita sospesa (also screenwriter;
France / Italy / Belgium)
1992 La Fille de l’Air (also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1987 The Land of Honey and Incense (documentary;
Lebanon)
1988 Médecins des Hommes (episode “Liban, le Pays
du Miel et de l’Encens”; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1989 Les Jupons de la Révolution (episode “Marat”)
1990 Les Cadavres exquis de Patricia Highsmith (episode
“L’Epouvantail”)
BAHLOUL, ABDELKRIM (October 25, 1950,
Saïda, Oran, Algeria–)
A movie buff since his childhood, he studied literature
in Algiers before learning his craft in Paris (IDHEC).
He is also a screenwriter (1999 Tchao!, Yann Piquer)
and an occasional actor in fi lms (2001 Yamakasi: Les
Samouraïs des Temps modernes / Yamakasi, Julien Séri,
Ariel Zeïtoun; L’Autre Monde / USA: The Other World,
Merzak Allouache, Algeria / France; 2006 De Particulier
à Particulier, Brice Cauvin) and TV movies (2003 Le
Porteur de Cartable, Caroline Huppert; 2005 Permis
d’aimer, Rachida Krim; 2006 Otages à Bagdad, Jean-Luc
Breitenstein; Harkis, Alain Tasma).
Filmography
1976 La Cellule (short)
1984 Le Thé à la Menthe (also screenwriter,
adapter)
1992 Un Vampire au Paradis (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; shot in 1990–1991)
1998 Les Sœurs Hamlet (shot in 1995)
1999 La Nuit du Destin / USA: Night of Destiny (also
co-screenwriter)
2003 Le Soleil assassiné / USA: The Sun Assassinated
(also co-screenwriter)
BAÏLAC, GENEVIÈVE (September 3, 1922, Algiers,
Algeria–)
Born into a French-Spanish family, she started as radio
journalist and stage director. In 1947, she created in
Algiers the C.R.A.D. (Centre Régional d’Art Dramatique),
a drama school. Known mostly as writer, she
authored a collection of poems (1947 Dons, Editions
Chaix), a novel (1958 La Maison des Soeurs Gomez, Editions
Julliard), plays (1962 La Kahéna; 1963 El Pueblo),
and essays (1972 Les Ansinthes sauvages, Fayard; 1984
Jeanne et Thérèse, Le Seuil). She brought to the screen
her most successful play (La Famille Hernandez).
Filmography
1965 La Famille Hernandez (co-director with Louis
Pascal; also original play, screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
BAILLIU, LIONEL (August 19, 1969, Paris, France–)
He studied Business at Sup de Co Paris and ESCP
(1991) and writing at the Conservatoire Européen
d’Ecriture Audiovisuelle (1997). After working
as screenplay reader and fi ction program adviser
(1997–2003), he made his directing debut and wrote
the screenplays and dialogues of two episodes of TV
series he created: Elodie Bradford (2004 “Les Crimes
étaient Presque parfaits,” “Un Ami pour Elodie,” Laurent
Carcélès).
Filmography
2000 MicroSnake (short; co-director with Pierre-
Yves Mora; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2002 Squash (short; also screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2005 Fair Play (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
2004 Elodie Bradford (pilot; also screenwriter, dialogist)
BAILLY, PASCALE (December 15, 1959, France–)
She entered fi lms as script trainee (1983 La Vie est
un Roman / USA: Life Is a Bed of Roses, Alain Resnais)
and successively was script supervisor (1985 Le Thé
au Harem d’Archimède / USA: Tea in the Harem, Mehdi
Charef; 1986 Pékin Central, Camille de Casabianca),
still photographer (1989 Un Monde sans Pitié / UK: A
World Without Pity / USA: Love Without Pity, Eric Rochant;
1990 La Discrète / USA: The Discreet, Christian
Vincent; Aux Yeux du Monde, Eric Rochant; 1993 A
l’Heure où les grands Fauves vont boire, Pierre Jolivet),
and director.
Filmography
1993 Comment font les Gens (also screenwriter)
1994 Chanson d’Amour (unreleased)
1996 Mademoiselle Personne (short)
2001 Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite / US video:
God Is Great, and I’m Not (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; shot in 1998–1999)