Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

988 • VARÉLA, JOSÉ
Loin du Vietnam / USA: Far from Vietnam (codirector;
one episode)
1969 Lions Love (also screenwriter, producer, actor,
composer)
Black Panthers / USA: Huey (documentary;
short; also commentary, producer, cinematographer)
1975 Daguerréotypes (documentary; also producer)
Réponse de Femmes (short; also commentary)
1977 L’une chante, l’autre pas / USA: One Sings, the
Other Doesn’t (also screenwriter, dialogist;
France / Belgium)
Plaisir d’Amour en Iran (short; also screenwriter)
1982 Murs Murs / USA: Murals Murals (documentary;
also screenwriter, narrator)
Documenteur / USA: Documenteur: An Emotion
Picture (also screenwriter)
Ulysse (short; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
voice, narrator)
1984 Les dites Cariatides (documentary; short; also
screenwriter, producer, narrator)
7 P., cuis., s. de B . . . (à saisir) (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1985 Sans Toit ni toi / USA: Vagabond (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, co-producer, co-editor)
1986 T’as de beaux Escaliers, tu sais (short; also
screenwriter, producer)
1988 Jane B. par Agnès V. (also screenwriter, dialogist,
co-producer, co-editor)
Kung Fu Master (also screenwriter, adapter,
co-producer, actor)
1991 Jacquot de Nantes (also screenwriter, dialogist,
co-producer)
1993 Les Demoiselles ont 25 Ans / USA: The Young
Girls Turn 25 (documentary; also screenwriter,
cinematographer, editor)
1995 Les Cent et une Nuits / USA: A Hundred and One
Nights / A Hundred and One Nights of Simon
Cinema (also screenwriter, producer)
L’Univers de Jacques Demy (documentary; also
screenwriter, actor as herself)
2000 Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse / USA: The Gleaners
and I (documentary; also screenwriter,
producer, cinematographer, actor as herself,
narrator, editor)
2002 Deux Ans après / Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse . .
. deux Ans après / USA: The Gleaners and I: Two
Years Later (documentary; also screenwriter,
producer, cinematographer, actor as herself,
voice, sound engineer, editor)
2003 Le Lion volatil (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, editor)
2004 Ydessa, les Ours et etc. (documentary; mediumlength;
also screenwriter, producer, editor)
Cinévardaphoto (documentary; includes three
shorts: “Salut les Cubains,” “Ulysse,” “Ydessa,
les Ours et etc.”)
Der Viennale ’04-Trailer (short; also screenwriter,
producer, actor)
2005 Cléo de 5 à 7: Souvenirs et Anecdotes (short
documentary; also actor as herself)
2006 Quelques Veuves de Noirmoutier (documentary;
also screenwriter)
2008 Les Plages d’Agnès (documentary, also screenwriter,
actor)
Television Filmography
1970 Nausicaa (also screenwriter)
1983 Une Minute pour une Image (170 2' TV
clips)
VARÉLA, JOSÉ (July 29, 1933, Paris, France–)
The son of a Parisian mother and a Spanish father,
he was raised by an American. He grew up in Grenoble,
where he became a movie buff. Educated at
the Polytechnic Institute of Lausanne, he intended
to become an architect engineer but instead took
acting courses at the Charles Dullin School. Spotted
by stage director Antoine Bourseiller, he worked for
four years with Peter Brook (he notably performed
Rodolfo in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, in
1957) and played Mick in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker
(directed by Roger Blin, 1961). Seen in several
fi lms (1958 Liberté surveillée, Henri Aisner, Vladimir
Vleck, France / Czechoslovakia; L’Opéra Mouffe, short,
Agnès Varda; 1960 Le Huitième Jour, Marcel Hanoun;
1962 Le Signe du Lion / UK and USA: The Sign of
Leo, Eric Rohmer, shot in 1959; 1965 Béatrice, Jean-
Roger Richter, France / Romania; 1967 Lettre à Carla
/ Brieef aan Carla, Jean-José Richter, France / Bulgaria;
1968 Les Gauloises bleues, Michel Cournot; 1977
Ben et Benedict, Paula Delsol) and TV movies (1965
Evariste Gallois, Alexandre Astruc; 1966 Les Compagnons
de Jéhu, 6 52', Michel Drach, 1981 L’Etouffe
Grand-Mère, Jean-Pierre Bastid; 1994 Une qui promet,
Marianne Lamour), he also worked as a production
assistant (1965 paris vu par . . . / UK and USA: Six in
Paris, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Jean Rouch, Jean Douchet,
Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol),
editor (1975 La Route, Jean-François Bizot, shot in