Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Le Mur de l’Atlantique / Un elmetto pieno di . . .
fi fa (also co-adapter; France / Italy)
1971 Dernier Refuge
1976 Otalia de Bahia / Os pastores da Noite / USA:
Bahia (also screenwriter, dialogist; France /
Brazil)
Television Filmography
1973 La Porteuse de Pain (7 60')
Molière pour rire et pour pleurer (6 52')
1974 Les Faucheurs de Marguerites (7 55')
1978 Voltaire / Ce Diable d’Homme (6 52')
1979 Le Roi qui vient du Sud (6 52'; co-director
with Heinz Schirk)
1980 Winnetou le Mescalero (7 52'; France / Switzerland)
Les Amours du Bien-Aimé
1981 Le Roman du Samedi: L’Agent secret
1982 Le Féminin pluriel
CANDAS, VIVIANE
Having graduated with a bachelor’s degree in plastic
arts, she studied dramatic art with Daniel Mesguich,
Blanche Salant, and Alain Ollivier. She authored novels
(1989 Vénus en Scorpion, Editions Robert Laffont;
2004 Le Voile brûlé, Editions Flammarion) and directed
several plays (1998 Le Temps d’un Passage, Virgil Lombardo;
1999 Nu, Emmanuel Loi; Exils, Anna Seghers
and poems of Marina Tsvétaéva). Other credit (as
actress): 1985 Un Homme comblé (TV, Paula Delsol).
Filmography
2003 Les Baigneuses / USA: The Bathers (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2006 Suzanne (also screenwriter, dialogist)
CANDILIS, TAKIS P. (October 27, 1954, Athens,
Greece–)
The son of a Greek architect father and a French
mother, he wrote his fi rst short at age seventeen.
While studying architecture, he worked as an assistant
production designer on several fi lms (1974 Sweet
Movie, Dusan Makavejev; 1975 Un Sac de Billes, Jacques
Doillon; Les Galettes de Pont-Aven, Joël Séria). He also
landed jobs as assistant cinematographer and editor.
After abandoning his architecture studies, he began
directing documentaries and institutional fi lms. In
1988, he co-founded with Rachel Kahn his own production
company (Tara Productions). He is currently
a TV producer.
CANIGLIA, MARIO • 169
Filmography
1978 Le Retour du Privé (short; also screenwriter)
1982 Transit (unreleased)
CANET, GUILLAUME (April 10, 1973, Boulogne-
Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
Trained at the Cours Florent, he made his stage debut
at age fi fteen in Henry de Montherlant’s La Ville dont
le Prince est un Enfant. From 1994 (La Colline aux Mille
Enfants, TV, Jean-Louis Lorenzi) to 2008 (Last Night,
Massy Tadjedin, USA / France), he played second lead
and leading roles in about forty fi lms and TV movies.
Filmography
1996 Sans Regrets (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1998 Je taim (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2000 Scénarios sur la Drogue (short; segment Avalanche,
co-director with Jean-Christophe Pagnac)
J’peux pas dormir (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, actor)
2002 Mon Idole / US festival: My Idol (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist, actor)
2006 Ne le dis à personne / UK and USA: Tell No One
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
actor)
CANIGLIA, MARIO (February 6, 1966, Dunkerque,
Nord, France–)
In 1991, he settled in Paris, where he was trained as
an actor and a singer at the Cours Florent, Art Scénic,
le Coach. Parallel to his directing career, he also
worked as an assistant director and casting director
(2000 La Faute à Voltaire / USA: Political Refugee; 2001
Toutes les Nuits, Eugène Green). He played onstage
and on fi lms (2002 Carla, medium-length, Rima Samman;
2004 Le Pont des Arts, Eugène Green).
Filmography
1993 Le Dimanche de la Mamma (documentary;
short; also screenwriter)
1994 La Toilette (Super-8 short)
1995 Lady Birds / La Vieille Dame aux²Pigeons (Super-
8 short)
2003 Toujours tout droit (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, actor; shot in 2001)
2008 La Ritournelle