Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

992 • VÉDRÈS, NICOLE
Treilhou; “Remue-Ménage,” Jacques Davila;
shot in 1981)
En haut des Marches (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, actor, editor)
1984 Les Barnufl es (short; also screenwriter, actor)
1985 Trou de Mémoire (short; also screenwriter, actor,
editor)
1986 Rosa la Rose, Fille publique (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer, editor)
1987 Avec Sentiment (short)
1988 Encore / Encore: Once More (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer, editor)
1989 Le Café des Jules (also producer, editor)
1992 Fugue en Sol mineur (short; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1994 Wonderboy / De Sueur et de Sang / Die Zärtlichkeit
des Tigers (also co-screenwriter, editor;
France / Germany)
La Terre des Vivants (unreleased)
1996 L’@mour est à réinventer, Dix Histoires d’Amours
au Temps du Sida / L’@mour est à réinventer / US
DVD: Love Reinvented; also screenwriter)
Zone franche (also co-screenwriter, editor)
2004 A votre bon Coeur (also screenwriter, actor,
editor)
2005 Et + si @ff / En tout Bien, tout Bonheur (also
screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2006 Bareback ou La Guerre des Sens (short; also
co-screenwriter, actor, editor)
Television Filmography
1973 Témoignages (episode “Prenez garde aux Moroses”)
1984 Série noire (episode “Cœur de Hareng”; also
co-screenwriter)
1986 A Titre posthume
1989 Les Jurés de l’Ombre (7 52')
En Cas de Bonheur (250 26'; co-director
only)
Le Front dans les Nuages
1990 V comme Vengeance (episode “La Tendresse de
l’Araignée”; also co-screenwriter)
1991 L’Impure / La impura (also co-screenwriter, actor;
France / Cuba)
Lola et quelques Autres (10 13'; co-director
only)
Imogène (episode “Vous êtes folle, Imogène”)
1992 Le Lyonnais (episode “Sanguine”)
1993 Point d’Orgue
1996 Imogène (episode “Imogène Contre-Espionne”)
1998 Victor Schoelcher, l’Abolition
VÉDRÈS, NICOLE (Nicole Cahen / September
4, 1911, Paris, France–November 20, 1965, Paris,
France)
After earning degrees in law and letters, she wrote
several novels (Le Labyrinthe ou Le Jardin de Sir Arthur;
Christophe ou Le Choix des Armes; Les Cordes rouges;
L’Exécuteur; La Bête lointaine) and essays (Un Siècle
d’Elégance française; La Sculpture en France depuis Rodin,
co-author with Léon Gischia). In 1945, she published
a book (Images du Cinéma Français) made up
of movie stills. Producer Pierre Braunberger spotted
it and asked her to shoot a compilation fi lm (Paris
1900). Seen as herself in Désordre (Jacques Baratier),
she co-hosted a famous TV literary program (Lecture
pour tous), in 1953.
Filmography
1948 Paris 1900 (documentary; also screenwriter)
1950 La Vie commence Demain / USA: Life Begins Tomorrow
(documentary; also screenwriter)
1951 L’Encyclopédie fi lmée (documentary; short; segment
“Amazone”)
1953 Aux Frontières de l’Homme (documentary;
short; co-director with Jean Rostand; also
cinematographer)
VELLE, FRANÇOIS (July 22, 1961, Paris, France–)
The son of actor Louis Velle and novelist and screenwriter
Frédérique Hébrard, he entered fi lms as an
actor in productions in which his father starred
(1972 La Demoiselle d’Avignon, 13 26' TV series,
Michel Wyn; 1976 Un Mari, c’est un Mari, Serge
Friedman; 1981 Adieu ma Chérie, TV movie, Serge
Friedman).While he worked as a second assistant
director (1983 Y a-t-il un Pirate sur l’Antenne?, Jean-
Claude Roy; Salut la Puce, Richard Balducci; En Cas de
Guerre mondiale, je fi le à l’Etranger, Jacques Ardouin;
Education anglaise, Jean-Claude Roy) and fi rst assistant
director (1986 Félicien Grevêche, TV miniseries,
Michel Wyn; 1988 La Valise en Carton / A mala de
Cartão, 6 52', Michel Wyn, France / Portugal), he
directed his fi rst shorts. He collaborated as a coscreenwriter
on TV miniseries (1993 Le Château des
Oliviers, 8 85'; 1996 Les Allumettes suédoises, 3
103', Jacques Ertaud; 1997 Le Grand Batre, 9 100',
Laurent Carcélès).
Filmography
1981 1914 (super-8 short)
1986 Bitumes (short; also screenwriter)