Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

176 • CARBONNAT, LOUIS DE
shooting two shorts. Other credits (as actor): 1987
King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard, Bahamas / USA); 1997 A
casa (Sharuna Bartas, France / Lithuania / Portugal);
2004 Process (C. S. Leigh, France / UK); 2007 977
(Nikolay Khomeriki, USA / Russia); Mister Lonely (Harmony
Korine, UK / France / Ireland / USA).
Filmography
1977 La Fille rêvée (short)
1980 Strangulation Blues (short)
1984 Boy meets Girl (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1986 Mauvais Sang / UK: The Night Is Young / USA:
Bad Blood (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1991 Les Amoureux du Pont-Neuf / USA: The Lovers
on the Bridge (also screenwriter, dialogist; shot
in 1988–1990)
1997 Sans Titre (short; also screenwriter)
1999 Pola X / TV longer version: Pierre ou les Ambiguïtés
/ Pierre oder Der Kampf mit der Sphinx
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist;
France / Switzerland / Germany / Japan)
2008 Tokyo (segment Merde; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist; France / Japan)
CARBONNAT, LOUIS DE (Louis Passefons de
Carbonnat / July 15, 1879, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne,
France–November 30, 1959, Paris, France)
A fi lmmaker for ten years, he also was an art director
(1930 La Bodega, Benito Perojo, Spain).
Filmography
1920 Une Filleule d’Amérique
Si Titi était le Patron
Fils du Vent (also screenwriter)
1923 Le Traquenard
1924 Le Tour de France par Deux Enfants (fi ve
episodes: “Vers la France,” “Monsieur Gertal,”
“Les Méfaits du Mistral,” “Aidons-nous les
Uns les Autres,” “Le Naufrage”)
1925 Les Murailles du Silence
1929 El Tempranillo / Justice suprême / Sa Justice /
L’Aigle de la Sierra (also screenwriter)
CARBONNAUX, NORBERT (March 28, 1918,
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France–November
6, 1997, Paris, France)
After his law studies, he was mobilized for World
War II. He spent four years in captivity in Germany.
Then he joined Patton’s army. He wrote for radio
before entering fi lms as a screenwriter and dialogist
(1947 La Colère des Dieux, as co-dialogist, Carl Lamac;
Les Atouts de Monsieur Wens / De Troeven van Mr. Wens,
as dialogist, E. G. de Meyst, Belgium; Le Diable souffl e
/ USA: Woman of Evil, as co-screenwriter, Edmond T.
Gréville; Les Requins de Gibraltar, as dialogist, Emile-
Edwin Reinert; 1948 L’Aventure commence Demain,
as dialogist, Richard Pottier; Neuf Garçons, un Coeur,
as co-dialogist, Georges Freedland; 1949 La Bataille
du Feu / Les Joyeux Conscrits, as dialogist, Maurice de
Canonge; Marlène, as dialogist, Pierre de Hérain; 1952
Le Costaud des Batignolles, as co-screenwriter, dialogist,
Guy Lacourt; Bille de Clown, as screenwriter, Jean Wall;
1953 La Tournée des grands Ducs, as co-screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, Guy Lacourt; 1978 Ils sont fous
ces Sorciers, as screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
Georges Lautner). Other credit (as actor): 1971 Léa
l’Hiver (Marc Monnet).
Filmography
1951 90 Degrés à l’Ombre (short)
1953 La Tournée des grands Ducs (André Pellenc;
Norbert Carbonnaux actually directed the
fi lm)
1954 Les Corsaires du Bois de Boulogne (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
1957 Courte-Tête / Les Ramasse-Miettes / US TV:
Photo Finish (also adapter)
1958 Le Temps des Œufs durs (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1960 Candide ou L’Optimisme au XXème Siècle / USA:
Candide (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1962 La Gamberge (also co-adapter)
1967 Toutes Folles de lui (also co-screenwriter)
1972 L’Ingénu (also screenwriter, dialogist)
CARCÉLÈS, LAURENT (January 17, 1957, Algiers,
Algeria–)
The son of a missionary, he settled in France after
the Algerian War. After completing his studies at
the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français, he
rejoined his father in Gabon, where he restored and
reedited movies and documentaries of the 1950s
and 1960s. He shot several documentaries in Africa
before returning in France and directing his fi rst
feature fi lm. Other credit (as art director): 1986
Equinoxe (Arthur Lamothe).
Filmography
1986 Murundi (documentary)
La Piste Malibe (documentary)