Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1016 • WARIN, FRANCIS
/ France / West Germany / Iran; 1978 L’Etat sauvage
/ UK and USA: The Savage State, Francis Girod; 1979
L’Esprit de Famille, Jean-Pierre Blanc) and fi rst assistant
director (1978 Mon Premier Amour / UK and USA: My
First Love, Elie Chouraqui; 1979 L’Ecole est fi nie, Olivier
Nolin; 1980 La Banquière, also second unit director,
Francis Girod; 1981 Viens chez moi, j’habite chez une
Copine, Patrice Leconte, Die Falschung / Le Faussaire /
UK: Circle of Deceit / USA: False Witness, also second
unit director, Volker Schlöndorff, West Germany /
France; 1982 Le Grand Pardon, Alexandre Arcady; Le
Grand Frère, Francis Girod; 1983 Heller Wahn / L’Amie
/ UK: Friends and Husbands / USA: Sheer Madness,
also location manager for scenes shot in France and
in Egypt; West Germany / France; 1984 Le Bon Plaisir,
Francis Girod; Souvenirs, Souvenirs, also second unit
director, Ariel Zeïtoun). He co-produced a feature
fi lm (1983 La Palombière, Jean-Pierre Denis) and produced
a short (1992 L’Echange, also co-screenwriter,
Vincent Perez). He played a small part in Brian De
Palma’s Femme Fatale (2002, USA).
Filmography
1986 La Femme de ma Vie / Die Frau meines Lebens
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France /
West Germany)
1989 Je suis le Seigneur du Château (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1992 Indochine / USA: Indochina (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1995 Une Femme française / Eine französische Frau
(also screenwriter, co-dialogist; France / Germany
/ UK)
Lumière et Compagnie / Lumiere y compania
/ Lumiere and Company (co-director only;
France / Spain / Denmark / Sweden)
1999 Est, Ouest / La vida prometida (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist; France / Spain / Bulgaria /
Russia / Ukraine)
Maman les p’tits Bateaux (short)
2005 Man to Man (also co-screenwriter; France /
UK / South Africa)
2007 Pars vite et reviens tard (also co-screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1988 Sueurs froides (episodes “Louis-Charles, mon
Amour,” “La Résurrection de l’Honorable”)
2000 D’Ouest en Est, Carnets de Route (documentary)
2003 Cœurs d’Athlètes (documentary; co-director
with Patrick Montel)
WARIN, FRANCIS (1930, Paris, France–)
He was only sixteen years old when he discovered
the nightlife and jazz clubs (Le Tabou, Le Lorientais,
Le Club Saint-Germain-des-Prés) of Saint-Germaindes-Prés.
While he was still studying at the IDHEC,
he learned drawing at the Académie Jullian. From
1951 to 1953, he traveled around the world and was
notably under the spell of the West Indies. Having
returned to France, he worked as an assistant director
to Henri-Georges Clouzot (1954 Les Diaboliques
/ UK: The Fiends / USA: Diabolique / US TV: The Devils).
After his military service in the French army’s Cinematographic
Service, he shared his time between
cinema and painting. From the 1960s to the early
1980s, he shot many TV reports.
Filmography
1960 Aïcha (short; co-director with Nourredine
Mechri; Tunisia)
1969 La Bergère en Colère (short)
1973 La Vie facile (also screenwriter; shot in 1971)
Television Filmography
1965 Le Photographe de Picasso, Brassaï (documentary)
1986 Leoh Ming Peï (documentary)
WATERHOUSE, RÉMI (January 29, 1956, Paris,
France–)
Born of a French mother and a British father, he is
the grandson of actor and writer Jacques-Bernard
Brunius (1906–1967). He was director Alberto Cavalcanti’s
secretary before switching to acting (1976
Jamais plus toujours / UK: Never Again Always / USA:
Nevermore, Forever, Yannick Bellon; 1978 L’Amour violé
/ USA: Rape of Love, Yannick Bellon). From 1984 to
2001, he co-wrote several movies (1984 La Triche, as
co-adapter, co-dialogist, Yannick Bellon; 1985 La Compromission,
Latif Lahlou; 1987 L’Homme qui n’était pas
là / USA: The Man Who Wasn’t There, René Féret, shot
in 1985; 1989 Les Enfants du Désordre / UK: Children
of Chaos, also co-adapter, co-dialogist, Yannick Bellon;
1992 L’Affût, Yannick Bellon; 1996 Ridicule, also original
novel, Patrice Leconte; 2001 Absolument fabuleux, also
co-adapter, co-dialogist, Gabriel Aghion).
Filmography
1986 La Conquête des Etages (documentary; short)
1999 Je règle mon Pas sur le Pas de mon Père (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist)