Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

864 • REVON, BERNARD
1983 La Vie est un Roman / USA: Life Is a Bed of
Roses
1984 L’Amour à Mort
1986 Mélo (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1989 I Want to Go Home
1991 Contre l’oubli / Ecrire contre l’Oubli / Against Oblivion
/ Lest We Forget (documentary; segment
“Pour Esteban Gonzalez, Cuba”)
1992 Gershwin (video documentary)
1993 Smoking
No Smoking
1997 On connaît la Chanson / UK and USA: Same Old
Song (France / UK / Switzerland)
2003 Pas sur la bouche / UK and USA: Not on the Lips
(also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France /
Switzerland)
2006 Cœurs / Cuori / US festival: Private Fears in Public
Places (France / Italy)
2008 Les Herbes folles
REVON, BERNARD (1931–July 14, 1997, Paris,
France)
He was briefl y an actor (1954 Quand le Soleil dort,
short, Ruy Guerra; 1956 Bébés à Gogo, Paul Mesnier)
before writing for movies (1960 Les Magiciennes
/ USA: Double Deception, as co-screenwriter, coadapter,
Serge Friedman; 1961 Les Démons de Minuit
/ UK: Demons at Midnight / USA: Midnight Follies, as
screenwriter, Marc Allégret, Charles Gérard; 1964
L’Amour à la Chaîne / USA: Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures,
also co-screenwriter, dialogist, Claude de Givray;
Elle est à tuer, short, as dialogist, Dossia Mage; 1968
Baisers volés / USA: Stolen Kisses, as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; 1970 Domicile conjugal / Non
drammatizziamo . . . è solo questione di corna! / UK:
Bed and Board / USA and Canada: Bed & Board, as
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, François
Truffaut; France / Italy; 1971 La Coqueluche, as screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, Christian-Paul Arrighi; 1972
La Guérilla, as co-screenwriter, Rafael Gil, Spain /
France; 1973 Projection privée / UK: Private Screening /
USA: Private Projection, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, François Leterrier; 1977 Un Amour de
Sable, as co-adapter, co-dialogist, Christian Lara; 1985
Folie Suisse, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,Christine
Lipinska, Canada / Switzerland; 1993 Le Cahier volé /
Il diario rubato, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Christine
Lipinska, France / Italy) and TV (1970 Mauregard,
6 60', Claude de Givray; 1978 Kakemono Hôtel,
as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist, Franck Ap-
prederis; 1979 Histoires insolites, episode “La Stratégie
du Serpent,” as adapter, Yves Boisset; 1980 Fantômas,
4 86', as screenwriter, adapter, France / West Germany;
1987 L’Île, 7 45', François Leterrier, France
/ Finland; 1996 Les Allumettes suédoises, 3 103', as
co-screenwriter; Jacques Ertaud). He also produced a
TV documentary (1967 Valmy, three parts: “La Chute
de la Royauté,” “Chronique de l’Eté 1792,” “Bataille et
Naissance de la République,” Jean A. Chérasse, Abel
Gance) and appeared as himself in Cinéastes de notre
Temps (TV documentary, episode “Et pourtant ils
tournent,” Claude-Jean Philippe, 1966).
Filmography
1980 Les Turlupins / USA: The Rascals (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist)
REY, NICOLAS (1968, France–)
Co-founder of L’Abominable, a cinematographic
workshop of experimental fi lmmakers, he directed
his fi rst video documentary in 1995. He is also a
photographer. Other credits: (as cinematographer,
sound engineer): 2003 Une Visite chez Stan Brakhage
(documentary, short, Pip Chodorov); (as voice only):
2006 Ex (short, Franck Fiorino).
Filmography
1995 Postier de Nuit (video documentary)
1996 Terminus for You (short)
1999 Opera mundi
2001 Les Soviets plus l’Electricité (documentary; also
screenwriter, cinematographer, sound engineer,
editor)
2005 Schuss! (documentary)
RIBES, JEAN-MICHEL (July 15, 1946, Paris,
France–)
Having graduated with bachelor’s degrees in letters
and Spanish, he co-founded with painter Gérard
Garouste and actor Philippe Khorsand the theatrical
group Pallium in 1965. In 1970, he wrote and directed
his fi rst play, Les Fraises musclées. The same year, he
made his fi lm debut as an actor (Laisse aller, c’est une
Valse, Georges Lautner). He played small parts in
about twenty movies and co-wrote Vous intéressezvous
à la Chose? / Haben Sie interesse an der Sache?
(Jacques Baratier, France / West Germany) and the
segment “L’Île aux Sirènes” from Collections privées
(Just Jaeckin). He also adapted Alan Ayckbourn’s play