Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

a few supporting roles in fi lms (1995 Le plus bel
Âge . . ., Didier Haudepin; 1998 Zonzon, Laurent
Bouhnik; 2001 Loin / Lejos, André Téchiné, France /
Spain; 2007 Les Chansons d’Amour / USA: Love Songs,
Christophe Honoré).
Filmography
1994 La Vie à Rebours (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1996 A toute Vitesse / USA: Full Speed (also coscreenwriter)
2002 Les Chemins de l’Oued / Canada: Under Another
Sky (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2004 Le Clan / USA: 3 Dancing Slaves (also coscreenwriter)
2007 Après lui / USA: After Him (also co-screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1999 Premières Neiges (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
2008 New Wave (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
MOREL, PIERRE
He entered fi lms as a steadicam operator (1993
L’Enfant-Lion / Sirga, Patrick Grandperret, shot in
1990–1991) and worked as a cinematographer and
camera operator on about thirty movies (from 1992
Privé de Vieillesse, short, Gaël Collon, to 2007 Rogue /
War, Philip G. Atwell, USA) before directing two action
movies produced by Luc Besson.
Filmography
2004 Banlieue 13 / UK and USA: District 13 / Canada
and USA: District B13
2008 Taken
MORELLI, PASCAL (May 4, 1961, Paris, France–)
Having trained at the Arts Appliqués, he worked in
advertising and comics before dedicating himself to
animated cinema.
Filmography
2002 Corto Maltese, la Cour secrète des Arcanes (animation;
France / Italy / Luxembourg)
Television Filmography
1990 Sophie et Virginie / USA: Sophie and Virginia (animation;
56 22'; co-director with Bernard
Deyriès)
MOREUIL, FRANÇOIS • 749
1995 Istinto del asesino (animated TV series; Spain)
Gadget Boy and Heather / USA: Gadget (animation;
26 30')
1996 Les Exploits d’Arsène Lupin (animation; 26 24';
co-director with François Brisson; Canada)
1997 The Legend of Calamity Jane (13 22'; Spain
/ Belgium)
MOREUIL, FRANÇOIS (January 24, 1934, Strasbourg,
Bas-Rhin, France–)
The son of an economist father, he notably studied
at Harvard Law School and in the Parisian faculties
of letters and law. Having graduated with bachelor’s
degrees in law and literature and a diploma in public
law superior studies, he was a lawyer from 1954 to
1959. He began working on fi lms as an assistant to
William Wyler in the USA (1951 Detective Story; Big
Country) before appearing as an actor in Jean-Luc
Godard’s A Bout de Souffl e / UK: By a Tether / UK
and USA: Breathless and directing his fi rst movie,
starring actress Jean Seberg (1938–1979), his wife
from 1958 to 1960. A TV director and producer, he
collaborated on such programs as Panorama du XXe
Siècle (1966–1970), XXe Siècle, Point Contre Point, Les
machines et les Hommes, Voilà, Plein Cadre, La Télévision
des Autres (1972–1974), and 60 Minutes pour convaincre.
He served as a special assistant to the director
(1966 How to Steal a Million, William Wyler, USA) and
assistant director (1968 A Flea in Her Ear / La Puce à
l’Oreille, Jacques Charon, USA / France).
Filmography
1961 La Récréation / US video: Love Play (co–technical
director with Fabien Collin; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1967 Anatomie d’un Mouvement (short)
Television Filmography
1967 Malican, Père et Fils (episode “Le Tir aux Pigeons”)
1977 Temps réel / Tic-Tac / Tac-Tic
1978 Un Roi à Madrid
1979 Le Défi e européen
1980 Orange est vert
1982 L’Intrus (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1990 Dessein et Destin de Charles de Gaulle (6 60'
documentary)
1996 Staline-Tito, la Règle et l’Exception (documentary)
De Gaulle-Adenauer (documentary)