Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1958 Les Vignes du Seigneur (also co-adapter)
1959 Nina
L’Increvable (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
Le Confi dent de ces Dames / Psicanalista per
signora (also co-adapter, co-dialogist; France
/ Italy)
1960 Bouche cousue (also adapter, producer)
1961 Les Croulants se portent bien (also co-adapter)
1962 Virginie (also co-adapter)
C’est pas moi, c’est l’Autre (also screenwriter)
1963 Coup de Bambou (also screenwriter, adapter,
producer)
1964 Relaxe-toi Chérie / Ho una moglie pazza, pazza,
pazza (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist;
France / Italy)
BOYER, MYRIAM (May 23, 1948, Lyon, Rhône,
France–)
Born into a poor family, she began working as an
invoice clerk-typist at age sixteen before making it
onstage in the late 1960s. Spotted by Agnès Varda,
she landed an uncredited part in Jacques Demy’s Peau
d’Âne / UK: Once upon a Time / USA: Donkey Skin).
She played supporting and sometimes leading roles
in more than eighty fi lms and TV movies, including
those she directed. Her son is actor Clovis Cornillac
(b. 1968). From 1975 to 1999, she was the companion
of American fi lm director and actor John Berry
(1917–1999). Their son is stage director and actor
Arny Berry (b. 1982).
Filmography
1998 La Mère Christain (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, actor)
2004 Peurs (short; also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
BOZON, SERGE (November 8, 1972, Lyon, Rhône,
France–)
After meeting fi lm critic Serge Daney in 1990, he
wrote texts in Trafi c, Vertigo, and La Lettre du Cinéma.
He taught mathematical logic at the University of
Paris I—Panthéon Sorbonne and translated texts
of philosophy and logic. Besides his feature fi lms, he
also directed video clips and played in several movies
shot by other fi lmmakers (1995 La Croisade d’Anne
Buridan, Judith Cahen; 1997 Le Chat, son Maître et sa
Maîtresse, short, Dorothée Sebbagh; 1998 L’Ennui / O
tédio, Cédric Kahn, France / Portugal; 1999 La Révolu-
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tion sexuelle n’a pas eu lieu, Judith Cahen; Les Passagers,
Jean-Claude Guiguet; 2000 Le Dieu Mozart II, Pierre
Léon; 2001 L’Adolescent, Pierre Léon; Fantômes, Jean-
Paul Civeyrac; 2002 Le Doux Amour des Femmes, Jean-
Paul Civeyrac; 2003 Le Cou de Clarisse, short, Benjamin
Esdraffo; Les Jours où je n’existe pas, Jean-Charles
Fitoussi; Mystifi cation ou L’Histoire des Portraits, short,
Sandrine Rinaldi; 2004 Le Pont des Arts, Eugène Green;
2005 L’Etoile violette / TV: Jean-Jacques, short, Axelle
Ropert; 2006 L’Eclaireur, Djibril Glissant; Horezon,
Pascale Bodet; Le Frère de José, short, Mélanie Guérin,
Franck Henry; 2007 L’Ami de Fred Astaire, Noémie
Lvovsky; Guillaume et les Sortilèges, Pierre Léon; Trois
Hivers et un Eté, Bojena Horackova; L’Homme qui
marche, Aurélia Georges, 2008 Il fait beau dans la plus
belle Ville du Monde, Valérie Dinelli).
Filmography
1987 L’Amitié (also actor)
2002 Mods (also actor)
2007 La France (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
BOZZUFI, MARCEL (Marcel Bozzuffi / October
28, 1929, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France–February 1,
1988, Paris, France)
The son of Italian immigrants, he played with amateur
companies before attending drama courses at the
Cours Simon. He performed onstage in such plays
as Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge (Vu du Pont,
directed by Peter Brook, 1959) and Lilian Hellman’s
The Little Foxes (Les Petits Renards, directed by Pierre
Mondy, 1963) and played supporting, second lead, and
a few leading roles in almost 100 fi lms and TV movies
(from 1954 Le Fils de Caroline chérie / UK: Caroline
and the Rebels / USA: The Son of Dear Caroline, Jean
Devaivre, to 1988 Il colpo, TV movie, Sauro Scavolini,
Italy). He co-wrote the screenplay of Patrick Jamain’s
Le Mandarin (also actor, 1980). From 1963 to his
death, he was the companion and then husband to
actress Françoise Fabian (b. 1933).
Filmography
1969 L’Américain (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
actor)
Television Filmography
1982 Les Grands Ducs (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
actor)
1983 Bon Anniversaire Juliette (also screenwriter,
dialogist)