Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

824 • PISIER, MARIE-FRANCE
1966 Un Misanthrope (short; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
Je ne sais pas (short; also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1968 S.W.B. (short; also screenwriter, stunts)
1969 Erotissimo (also co-adapter; France / Italy)
La Fête des Mères (short; also screenwriter)
L’Art de la Turlute (short; also screenwriter)
1971 Fantasia chez les Ploucs / Il Rompiballe . . . rompe
ancora (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist;
France / Italy)
1973 Elle court, elle court la Banlieue / La pendolare
(also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)
1975 L’Agression / Appuntamento con l’assassino / UK
and USA: Act of Aggression (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1976 Attention les Yeux! / UK and USA: Let’s Make a
Dirty Movie (also co-screenwriter)
L’Ordinateur des Pompes funèbres / Caccia al
montone / USA: The Probability Factor (also coscreenwriter;
France / Italy)
1980 L’Entourloupe
1981 Rends-moi la Clé! (also co-dialogist, actor)
1998 Taxi (with the collaboration of Gérard Krawczyk,
who shot a few scenes during the hospitalization
of Gérard Pirès)
2002 Riders (also co-screenwriter; France / UK /
Canada)
2004 Double Zéro
2005 Les Chevaliers du Ciel (also co-screenwriter)
PISIER, MARIE-FRANCE (May 10, 1944, Dalat,
Vietnam–)
The daughter of an administrator of Overseas
France, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in law
in Nice and a diploma in political science. An amateur
stage actress, she made her fi lm debut in 1961 (Qui
ose nous accuser?, Serge Komor) and performed in
more than eighty feature fi lms and TV movies. She
authored several novels (1984 Le Bal du Gouverneur,
Grasset; 1986 Je n’ai aimé que vous, Grasset; 1992 La
Belle Imposture, Editions Grasset-Fasquelle; 1997 Le
Deuil du Printemps, Grasset).
Filmography
1990 Le Bal du Gouverneur (also original novel,
screenwriter, dialogist)
2002 Comme un Avion (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
PITOF (Jean-Christophe Comar / July 4, 1957,
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
He started his career as an assistant director and
editor on commercials and industrial fi lms before
becoming an internationally renowned digital visual
effects director (1991 Delicatessen, Marc Caro, Jean-
Pierre Jeunet; 1995 La Cité des Enfants perdus / La
ciudad de los niños perdidos / Die Stadt der verlorenen
Kinder / USA: The City of Lost Children, Marc Caro, Jean-
Pierre Jeunet, France / Spain / West Germany; 1999
Astérix et Obélix contre César / Asterix & Obelix gegen
Caesar / Asterix e Obelix contro Cesare / UK: Asterix
and Obelix Take on Caesar, Claude Zidi, France / West
Germany / Italy; Jeanne d’Arc / The Messenger: The Story
of Joan of Arc / UK: Joan of Arc, Luc Besson), special
effects supervisor (1995 A l’Arraché / Mondokino: À
l’Arraché, short, Christophe Smith), and visual effects
supervisor (1993 Les Visiteurs / UK and USA: The Visitors,
Jean-Marie Poiré; La Soif de l’Or, Gérard Oury;
1994 Grosse Fatigue / UK and USA: Dead Tired, Michel
Blanc; Casque bleu, Gérard Jugnot; 1996 Fantôme avec
Chauffeur, Gérard Oury; Fallait pas! . . . / Caiga quien
caiga, mañana me caso / Caigui qui caigui, em caso, Gérard
Jugnot, France / Spain; 1997 Didier, Alain Chabat;
Alien: Resurrection / Alien 4, also second unit director,
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, USA). Other credits (as composer):
1994 KO Kid (short, Marc Caro); (as editor):
1998 Noël en Famille (short, Fabienne Berthaud, Aruna
Villiers); Le Mal est fait / UK: Evil Intentions (short, Thibaut
de Corday); (as screenwriter): 2003 Le Pistolet
(short, Thibaut de Corday); (actor as himself): 1995
Les Enfants de la Cité perdue (documentary, short,
Marc Caro); 2001 Les Archives de Jean-Pierre Jeunet
/ USA: The Archives of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (documentary,
short ); French Touch Cinema (TV documentary,
short, Véronique Trouillet); 2003 One Step Beyond:
The Making of Alien (documentary, Charles Lauzirika);
L’Aventure Spielberg (documentary, Laurent Cotillon,
Stéphane Krausz).
Filmography
2001 Vidocq (also co-screenwriter)
2004 Catwoman (USA)
2008 Fire & Ice: The Dragon Chronicles (USA / Romania)
PITOUN, JEAN-YVES (November 27, 1952, Pau,
Hautes-Pyrénées, France–)