Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

748 • MOREAU, DAVID
1999 Paddy (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
Television Filmography
1985 Série Noire (episode “Pas de vieux Os”; also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1987 L’Heure Simenon (episode “Le Fils Cardinaud”;
also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1990 L’Ami Giono (episode “Le Déserteur”; also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1995 Architruc (also screenwriter)
1997 Corpus Christi (4 52' documentary; codirector
with Jérôme Prieur)
2001 L’Apprentissage de la Ville
2003 L’Île Atlantique (also screenwriter, adapter)
Simon le Juste (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
2006 La Forteresse assiégée (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2008 L’Apocalypse (12 52' documentary; codirector
with Jérôme Prieur)
MOREAU, DAVID (July 7, 1976, Boulogne-Billancourt,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–) and PALUD, XAVIER
The son of director Hervé Palud, Xavier Palud studied
for a year at the ESCA (Ecole Supérieure de
Cinéastes et d’Acteurs) before entering fi lms as an
apprentice assistant director (1994 Un Indien dans
la Ville, Hervé Palud). Working as an extra on the TV
series H in 1998, he met David Moreau, a former
student at the ESRA (Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation
Audiovisuelle), who served as an assistant director.
They wrote three pilots of a TV series that never
was fi lmed before shooting their fi rst horror movie.
Other credit (Xavier Palud only, as construction
laborer): 2000 La Veuve de Saint-Pierre / The Widow of
Saint-Pierre (Patrice Leconte, France / Canada).
Filmography
1997 Sexous Breakdown (Xavier Palud only; short;
also screenwriter)
2003 Back to Saint-Tropez (David Moreau only;
short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2006 Ils / UK: Ils—Them / USA: Them (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2007 The Eye (USA)
MOREAU, JEANNE (January 23, 1928, Paris,
France–)
After her studies in dramatic arts at the Paris Conservatory
with Denis d’Inès, she became a member
of the Comédie-Française (1948–1952) before joining
Jean Vilar’s TNP (Théâtre National Populaire) in 1953.
From 1948 (Dernier Amour, Jean Stelli) to 2008 (Plus
Tard / Meuhar Yotar / Later / USA: One Day You’ll Understand,
Amos Gitai, France / Germany / Israel), she
played supporting roles or starred in more than 100
movies. In the 1970s, she tried her luck as a fi lm director.
Other credit (as co-screenwriter): 2003 La Petite
Prairie aux Bouleaux / Birkenau und Rosenfeld (Marceline
Loridan-Ivens, France / Germany / Poland).
Filmography
1976 Lumière / Scene di un’amicizia tra donne / USA:
Lumiere (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor;
France / Italy)
1979 L’Adolescente / Mädchenjahre / USA: The Adolescent
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist;
France / West Germany)
1983 Lilian Gish (documentary; as herself / Interviewer;
UK)
MOREAU, YOLANDE (February 27, 1953, Brussels,
Belgium–)
A former educator, she made her stage debut in the
late 1970s and played her fi rst one-woman show in
1982 (Sale Affaire, du Sexe et du Crime). She became
famous with French audiences as a member of the
Jerôme Deschamps company and a performer of
sketches, including Les Deschiens, the characters
created by Deschamps, shown on the Canal Plus TV
channel in 1994. From 1984 (7p., cuis, s. de B., . . . (à
saisir), short, Agnès Varda) to 2008 (Micmacs à Tire-Larigot),
she played in almost fi fty movies.
Filmography
2004 Quand la Mer monte . . . / USA: When the Sea
Rises (co-director with Gilles Porte; also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor; France /
Belgium)
MOREL, GAËL (September 25, 1972, Villefranchesur-Saône,
Rhône, France–)
He made his fi lm debut as an actor after writing a
letter to director André Téchiné, who hired him to
perform one of the main characters in Les Roseaux
sauvages / UK: The Wild Reeds / USA: Wild Reeds
(1994). Parallel with his directing work, he played