Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

652 • LONGVAL, JEAN-MARC
La Dame aux Camélias / La signora delle camelie / USA:
A Lady Without Camelias, Raymond Bernard, France /
Italy;1954 La Reine Margot / La regina Margot / UK: A
Woman of Evil, Jean Dréville, France / Italy). In 1968,
he became an independent producer.
Filmography
1960 La Chasse au Chamois (short)
1961 L’Oiseleur (short)
1962 Rennes et Lassos (short)
Anti, petit Pêcheur lapon (short)
Chasse en Finlande (short)
1963 Noir et Blanc (short)
1972 Fusil chargé (also screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist;
France / Italy; shot in 1970)
LONGVAL, JEAN-MARC (June 12, 1957, France–)
He entered fi lms as an actor in lowbrow comedies
(1977 Marche pas sur mes Lacets, Max Pécas; 1978 Embraye
Bidasse . . . ça fume!, Max Pécas; 1982 Les Chômeurs
en Folie, Georges Cachoux). He also co-wrote shorts
(1982 Privé de Femme, Anne Boerie; 1984 Ataxie passagère,
Luc Pagès) and produced A la Vitesse d’un Cheval
au Galop (also actor, Fabien Onteniente, 1992, shot in
1990). He authored one-man shows and plays.
Filmography
1987 Numéro spécial (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1989 J’aurais jamais dû croiser son Regard (also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1996 Les Deux Papas et la Maman (co-director with
Smaïn; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
1997 Famille nombreuse (short; also screenwriter)
1999 Recto-Verso (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
LOPES CURVAL, JULIE
After graduating with a diploma in plastic arts (photo
department), she attended acting courses at the
Cours Florent. Interested more in writing, she gave
up acting and authored and directed plays (Vitrines;
La Vitesse du Passant). She played in a short (1992 Le
Collecteur, Ronan Fournier-Christol) and co-wrote a
couple of feature fi lms (2003 Une Affaire qui roule, Eric
Véniard; 2004 Le Rôle de sa Vie, François Favrat).
Filmography
2001 Mademoiselle Butterfl y (short; also screenwriter)
2002 Bord de Mer (also co-screenwriter)
2006 Toi et moi (also co-screenwriter)
LOPES CURVAL, PHILIPPE (June 9, 1951, Bayeux,
Calvados, France–)
A second assistant director (1974 Stavisky . . . /
Stavisky, il grande truffatore, Alain Resnais, France / Italy;
1975 L’Important c’est d’aimer / L’importante è amare /
Nachtblende / UK: The Main Thing Is to Love / USA: The
Most Important Thing: Love, Andrzej Zulawski, France /
Italy / West Germany; 1976 Néa / Nea-Ein Mädchen
entdeckt die Liebe / UK: A Young Emmanuelle, Nelly Kaplan,
France / West Germany) and then fi rst assistant
director (1978 Sale Rêveur, Jean-Marie Périer; Le Sucre,
Jacques Rouffi o; 1977 Violette et François, Jacques
Rouffi o; 1979 Ils sont grands ces Petits, Joël Santoni; I
comme Icare, Henri Verneuil; 1981 Rends-moi la Clé!,
Gérard Pirès), he had a brief career as a fi lmmaker
before dedicating himself to screenwriting (1991 Une
Epoque formidable, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
Gérard Jugnot; 1994 Casque bleu, as co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, Gérard Jugnot; 1996 Fallait pas! . . . / Caiga
quiencaiga, manana me caso, as co-screenwriter, dialogist,
Gérard Jugnot, France / Spain; 2002 Monsieur
Batignole, as co-screenwriter, dialogist; Gérard Jugnot;
2004 Les Choristes / Die Kinder des Monsieur Mathieu /
USA: The Chorus, as co-screenwriter, dialogist, Christophe
Barratier, France / Switzerland / Germany;
2005 Boudu, as screenwriter, dialogist, Gérard Jugnot)
and TV screenwriting (1996 Adorable petite Bombe,
Philippe Muyl; Les Amours de Rivière rouge, 2 90',
Yves Boisset; 1997 Le Surdoué, 2 90', Alain Bonnot;
Maintenant ou jamais, Jérôme Foulon; 1998 Maintenant
pour toujours, Daniel Vigne, Joël Santoni).
Filmography
1982 Rohner (documentary; short)
1983 Baby Come Back (documentary; short)
Le Drapeau tricolore en bleu, blanc, rouge (documentary;
short)
1986 Trop tard Bathazar (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
LORENZI, STELLIO (May 7, 1921, Paris, France–
September 25, 1990, Paris, France)
Of Italian descent, he studied architecture before enrolling
in the IDHEC in 1943 (the year the fi lm school
was created). He was an assistant director (1945 Falbalas
/ USA: Paris Frills, Jacques Becker; 1946 La Rose
de la Mer, Jacques de Baroncelli; 1947 Dernier Refuge,