Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

852 • RAPPENEAU, JEAN-PAUL
selvaggio / UK: Call Me Savage / USA: Lovers Like Us,
Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France / Italy; 1982 Tout Feu, tout
Flamme / UK and USA: All Fired Up, Jean-Paul Rappeneau;
1984 Le Jumeau, Yves Robert; 1985 Une Femme
ou Deux / USA: One Woman or Two, Daniel Vigne) and
two TV movies directed by Joyce Buñuel (1984 Aéroport:
Issue de Secours; 1985 Terrain glissant). She gave
up her script girl career in 1981.
Filmography
1988 Fréquence Meurtre
Television Filmography
1989 Mieux vaut courir (also co-screenwriter)
1992 L’Amour assassin
Turbulences
1994 Julie Lescaut (episodes “Rapt,” “La Mort en
rose”)
1995 Julie Lescaut (episodes “La Fiancée assassinée,”
“Double Rousse”)
1996 Le Secret d’Iris
Notre Homme
1997 La Famille Sapajou
L’Amour dans le Désordre
1998 Telle Mère, telle Fille
La Famille Sapajou—Le Retour
1999 Sapajou contre Sapajou
2000 Chacun chez soi
Un Homme en Colère (episode “Un Amour
sans Limite”)
2001 L’Impasse du Cachalot
Un Citronnier pour deux
2003 Changer tout
Les Femmes ont toujours raison
2004 L’Insaisissable
2005 Une Vie
Ma Meilleure Amie
2005 Les Inséparables (episodes “Drôle de Zèbres,”
“Tout nouveau, tout beau”)
2006 Les Inséparables (episode “Nouveaux
2007
Départs”)
Paul et ses Femmes
2008 La Maison Tellier
RAPPENEAU, JEAN-PAUL (April 8, 1932, Auxerre,
Yonne, France–)
A movie buff since his childhood, he led a cine-club
and fi lmed 16-mm shorts. In 1950, he settled in Paris,
where he studied law before switching to cinema
and becoming an assistant director (1955 Les Fruits
de l’Eté / Ihre Liebesnacht / USA: Fruits of Summer,
Raymond Bernard, France / West Germany; 1957
Les Suspects, Jean Dréville; Six Mois plus tard, short,
also production manager, René Lucot; Les Alchimistes,
short, also production manager, Edouard Molinaro;
Appelez le 17, short, also production manager, Edouard
Molinaro; 1958 Chemins de Lumière, short, also
production manager, René Lucot) and then screenwriter
and dialogist (1959 Signé Arsène Lupin / Il
ritorno di Arsenio Lupin / US TV: Signed Arsene Lupin, as
screenwriter, co-dialogist, Yves Robert, France / Italy;
1960 La Française et l’Amour / La Francese e l’amore /
USA: Love and the Frenchwoman, as co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, segment “Le Mariage,” René Clair, France
/ Italy; Zazie dans le Métro / Zazie nel metró / UK: Zazie
in the Subway / Zazie in the Underground / USA: Zazie
dans le Metro, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
Louis Malle, France / Italy; Entre le Ciel et la
Terre, short, Carlos Vilardebó; 1961 Saint-Tropez Blues,
Marcel Moussy, France / Italy; 1962 Vie privée / Vita privata
/ UK and USA: A Very Private Affair, as co-screenwriter,
dialogist, Louis Malle, France / Italy; Le Combat
dans l’Île / USA: Fire and Ice, as dialogist, Alain Cavalier;
1964 L’Homme de Rio / L’uomo di Rio / UK: That Man in
Rio, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Philippe de Broca,
France / Italy; 1965 La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco
Polo / Lo scacchiere di Dio / Le meravigliose avventure
di Marco Polo / Marko Polo / UK and USA: Marco the
Magnifi cent, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Denys de
La Patellière, Noel Howard, France / Italy / Yugoslavia
/ Afghanistan, shot in 1963; 1973 Le Magnifi que /
Come si distrugge la reputazione del più grande agente
segreto del mondo / UK: How to Destroy the Reputation
of the Greatest Secret Agent / USA: The Magnifi cent
One, Philippe de Broca, France / Italy; 1978 Tendre
Poulet / UK: Dear Detective / USA: Dear Inspector, as
uncredited co-screenwriter, Philippe de Broca; 1979
Le Cavaleur / USA: Practice Makes Perfect / The Skirt
Chaser, as uncredited co-screenwriter, Philippe de Broca;
1980 On a volé la Cuisse de Jupiter / UK and USA:
Jupiter’s Thigh, as uncredited screenwriter, Philippe de
Broca). He also worked in TV (1965 Les Survivants, 13
13', as dialogist, Dominique Genee) and appeared
in a documentary (2003 Claude Sautet ou La Magie de
l’Invisible / Claude Sautet oder Die unsichtbare Magie, as
himself, N. T. Binh, France / Germany).
Filmography
1958 Chronique provinciale (short; also co-screenwriter)