Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

4 • AGOSTINI, PHILIPPE
Bernard Paul; 1979 French Postcards / USA: Wer geht
denn noch zur Uni, Willard Huyck, USA / France /
West Germany, 1985 Bras de Fer, Gérard Vergez
. . .), he was also a stage director (1989 Liebeleï).
He co-wrote two TV episodes (1997 “L’Amour
piégé,” from Avocat d’Offi ce TV series, Bernard Stora;
1998 “Les Filles de Vincennes,” from La Justice de Marion
TV series, Thierry Binisti) and played a supporting
role in a TV mini-series (1995 La Rivière Espérance,
9 90', Josée Dayan).
Filmography
1983 La Scarlatine (also screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1991 Rue du Bac (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1996 Pédale douce (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1999 Belle Maman / USA: Beautiful Mother (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2000 Le Libertin (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
2001 Absolument fabuleux (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
2004 Pédale dure (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1996 Avocat d’Offi ce (episode “Les Enfants
d’abord”)
2007 Monsieur Max
AGOSTINI, PHILIPPE (August 11, 1910, Paris,
France–October 21, 2001, Paris, France)
After completing his studies at the Ecole de Photographie
(Photography School), he soon became assistant
cameraman to masters of light Georges Périnal
and Armand Thirard. A cinematographer from 1934
(Itto, Jean-Benoît Lévy, Marie Epstein) to 1957 (Les
Trois font la Paire, Clément Duhour, Sacha Guitry),
he collaborated with some of the best directors of
his time: Marc Allégret (1936 Sous les Yeux d’Occident
/ Razumov), Julien Duvivier (1937 Un Carnet de Bal /
UK: Christine / USA: Life Dances On / Dance of Life /
Dance Program), Marcel L’Herbier (1938 La Tragédie
impériale), Marcel Carné (1938 Le Jour se lève / USA:
Daybreak, 1946 Les Portes de la Nuit / USA: Gates of
the Night), Claude Autant-Lara (1942 Le Mariage de
Chiffon, Lettres d’Amour / USA: Love Letters, 1943 Douce
/ USA: Love Story, 1946 Sylvie et le Fantôme / UK: Sylvia
and the Ghost / USA: Sylvie and the Phantom), Louis
Daquin (1944 Premier de Cordée), Robert Bresson
(1945 Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne / USA: Ladies in
the Park / The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne), Roger
Leenhardt (1948 Les Dernières Vacances / USA: The
Last Vacation), Jean Grémillon (1949 Pattes blanches /
UK & USA: White Paws), Marcel Pagnol (1951 Topaze),
Max Ophüls (1951 Le Plaisir / UK and USA: House of
Pleasure / Pleasure), Jules Dassin (1955 Du Rifi fi chez les
Hommes / UK and USA: Rifi fi ; France / Italy), and Sacha
Guitry (1955 Si Paris nous était conté). He co-wrote a
Brigitte Bardot’s vehicle (1956 La Mariée est trop belle
/ UK: The Bride Is Too Beautiful / USA: Her Bridal Night
/ The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful, Pierre Gaspard-Huit).
His wife was French actress Odette Joyeux.
Filmography
1953 La Nuit de Pâques (medium-length)
Ordinations (short)
1956 Le Corbusier (short; documentary)
1958 Le Naïf aux Quarante Enfants (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1959 Tu es Pierre (documentary)
1960 Le Dialogue des Carmélites / I dialoghi delle
Carmelitane / UK: The Carmelites (co-director
with Raymond-Léopold Bruckberger; also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1962 Rencontres / Poker col Diavolo (also adapter;
France / Italy)
1963 La Soupe aux Poulets (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
Le Pain du Ciel (short)
Le Vrai Visage de Thérèse de Lisieux (documentary;
short)
1971 La Petite Fille à la Recherche du Printemps
Television Filmography
1966 L’Âge heureux (8 26')
1967 La Bonne Peinture (also screenwriter)
1969 Le Trésor des Hollandais (13 26')
1973 Témoignages (episode “Eve et l’Inventeur”;
France / Switzerland / Canada)
1975 L’Âge en Fleur (16 26'; also co-screenwriter)
AGUIAR, AYRES D’ (May 27, 1896, Ponta del
Gada, Hazores, Portugal–December 19, 2000, Ponta
del Gada, Hazores, Portugal)
Of Portuguese origin, he edited in 1923 a French
movie shot in Portugal (Les Yeux de l’Âme / Os Olhos
da Alma / A Alma do Mar, Roger Lion; France / Portu-