Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Germany / USA). Other credits (as producer): 1953
Martin et Gaston (animated short, Henri Gruel); 1954
Gitanos et Papillons (animated short, Henri Gruel).
From 1951 to 1954, he was married to French actress
Anouk Aimée (b. 1932). His second wife, Olga
Karlatos, was also a performer. Autobiography: 2003
Tous les Desespoirs sont permis (Editions Fayard).
Filmography
1963 Les Abysses
1968 Les Pâtres du Désordre / I voski / USA: Thanos
and Despina (also screenwriter, dialogist, production
manager; France / Greece)
1976 Gloria Mundi (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1987 I photographia / La Photographie (also screenwriter,
dialogist; Greece / France)
1992 Les Equilibristes (also screenwriter, dialogist)
PAQUET-BRENNER, GILLES (1975, France–)
A movie lover from his childhood, he directed his
fi rst short at age twenty-three.
Filmography
1998 13 Minutes 13 dans la Vie de Josh et Anna
(short)
2000 Le Marquis (short; also cinematographer)
2001 Les Jolies Choses (also screenwriter)
2003 Gomez et Tavarès / USA: Payoff (also coscreenwriter)
2007 U.V. (also co-screenwriter)
Gomez Vs Tavarès (co-director with Gilles
Sebas)
2008 Walled-In (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
USA)
PARBOT, MICHEL (1938, France–August 3, 2008,
France)
He began his career as a reporter in 1961 working
for United Press International before joining World
TV Press and collaborating on such famous news TV
programs as Cinq Colonnes à la Une and Panorama. A
war correspondent in Algeria and Vietnam, he cocreated
with Hubert Henrotte Sygma-Television. He
played in Claude Lelouch’s Vivre pour vivre / Vivere
per vivere / USA: Live for Life (France / Italy, 1967) and
worked as a cinematographer (1977 Dominique Sanda
ou Le Rêve éveillé, short, TV documentary, Louis Malle)
and camera operator (1980 SPFX: The Empire Strikes
Back, Robert Guenette, USA).
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Filmography
1975 Oh! America (documentary; also co-screenwriter)
1979 007 in Rio (documentary; short)
Television Filmography
1966 Chroniques de France (documentary; short;
episode “Paris, Jeunesse et Rock n’Roll”; codirector
with Philippe Labro)
1976 Le Journal de Getuglio (50 5')
1981 A Propos de “La Guerre du Feu” (short; documentary)
1984 Stups (documentary)
1990 Jury (documentary; short)
1991 Bibiothèque de France (three-part documentary)
1992 Qui a tué Martin Luther King? / USA: Who Killed
Martin Luther King? (documentary)
PARENT, DENIS (November 28, 1954, Cambrai,
Nord, France–)
Having graduated with a degree in modern letters,
he collaborated as a fi lm critic on the magazines
Première and Studio Magazine and the TV channels
CineClassics and Cinecinéma. He authored a
monograph on fi lmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix (1989
Jean-Jacques Beineix, Version originale, Editions Bernard
Barrault) and co-wrote screenplays of a comic strip
series (Thaneros, Dupuis). Other works (as co-screenwriter):
1994 Le Cri coupé (TV movie, Miguel Courtois);
1996 L’Echappée belle (Etienne Dhaene); 2001
Un Ange (Miguel Courtois); (as actor): 1993 Leïla, née
en France (TV movie, Miguel Courtois); 1997 Bouge
(Jérôme Cornuau).
Filmography
1995 Sweet Home (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1998 Va au Diable (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1999 L’Amou fou (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
Ca va le faire (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
L’Ivresse des Cimes (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Le Trou du Souffl eur (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Le Cinéma du Réel (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)