Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1936 Le Mari rêvé / Zivot je pes (France / Czechoslovakia)
CAPRILE, ANNE
A former stage and fi lm actress (1960 Le Huitième
Jour, Marcel Hanoun; 1961 La Proie pour l’Ombre / USA:
Shadows of Adultery, Alexandre Astruc; 1964 Jean-Marc
ou La Vie conjugale / La vita coniugale / USA: Anatomy of
a Marriage / Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-
Marc, André Cayatte, France / Italy; Françoise ou La
Vie conjugale / Per il bene e per il male / USA: Anatomy
of a Marriage / Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with
Françoise, André Cayatte, France / Italy), she recently
has dedicated herself to animation cinema.
Filmography
1990 Le Jeu du Renard (animation; also screenwriter,
dialogist; shot in 1988)
1993 L’Opéra Mendigot Blues N.2 (animated short;
also screenwriter, dialogist)
1995 Mireille (animated short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, delegate producer)
1998 Le Voyage de la Souris (animation; also screenwriter,
producer)
CAPUTO, MICHEL (1947, Paris, France–)
Born into a working-class family, he received vocational
training certifi cates as a metalworker and
draftsman and earned his living as a metalworker with
Panhard and Citroën. After shooting a few 16-mm
shorts in the 1960s, he was an assistant production
designer (1974 Le Seuil du Vide, Jean-François Davy,
shot in 1971), production assistant (1975 Exhibition,
Jean-François Davy), and fi rst assistant director (1975
Prostitution, Jean-François Davy). He became one of the
busiest French porn directors under the pseudonyms
of Michel Baudricourt and Michel Jean (from 1976
to 1987). Parallel to his adult moviemaking career, he
fi lmed several comedies. Other credit (as co-screenwriter):
1987 Police des Mœurs (Jean Rougeron).
Filmography
1979 Qu’il est joli Garçon l’Assassin de Papa (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; shot in 1976)
1981 Si ma Gueule vous plaît . . .
1983 Les Planqués du Régiment (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
1986 L’Exécutrice (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer)
CARAX, LEOS • 175
CARANFIL, NAE (September 7, 1960, Bucharest,
Romania–)
Romanian born, he attended the Fémis workshop
for young directors in 1991. Other credit (as actor):
1987 In fi ecare zi mi-e dor tine (Gheorghe Vitanidis,
Romania).
Filmography
1983 Qu’il fait beau à Venise (short)
1984 Trente Ans d’Insomnie (short)
1988 Backstage (documentary)
1994 E pericoloso sporgersi / Les Dimanches de Permission
(also screenwriter, composer; Romania
/ France; shot in 1992)
1996 Asphalt Tango / Asfalt Tango (also screenwriter,
composer; France / Romania)
1999 Dolce farniente / UK: Sweet Idleness (also
screenwriter; France / Italy / Belgium / Romania;
shot in 1997)
2002 Filantropica / Philanthropique (also screenwriter,
actor; France / Romania)
2007 Restul e tacere (also screenwriter, dialogist;
Romania)
CARAVACA, ÉRIC (November 21, 1966, Rennes,
Ille-et-Vilaine, France–)
The son of a civil engineer, he graduated with a
diploma in literature. After frequenting the Rennes
Conservatory, he moved to Paris, where he joined
the Ecole de la Rue Blanche and the next year the
CNSAD. He spent a year at the New York Actors’
Studio. Having returned to France, he made his stage
debut in 1992. He already had played in shorts (1989
Brasero, Bruno Chiche; 1992 L’Echappée belle, Antoine
Vaton; 1993 Les Allemands du Pont-Neuf, Pierre Foldes).
From 1996 (Un Samedi sur la Terre, Diane Bertrand) to
2008 (Eden Is West / Eden à l’Ouest / Paradeisos sti disi,
Costa-Gavras, France / Greece / Italy), he played second
lead and leading roles in about twenty movies.
Filmography
2005 Le Passager (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
CARAX, LEOS (Alex Christophe Dupont / November
22, 1960, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
The son of an American journalist mother, he studied
cinema at the University of Paris III and wrote a few
articles for Les Cahiers du Cinéma and entered fi lms