Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

178 • CARION, CHRISTIAN
/ Italy, 1972). An occasional director, she also was an
actress (1973 La Grande Bouffe / La grande abbuffatta /
UK: Blow-Out / USA: The Grande Bouffe, Marco Ferreri,
France / Italy), screenwriter (1992 Séparément vôtre,
TV, Michel Boisrond), and location manager (1996 The
English Patient, Anthony Minghella, USA).
Filmography
1983 Un Homme à ma Taille / Ein Mann meiner
Grösse (also co-screenwriter, dialogist; France
/ West Germany)
Television Filmography
2001 Not Afraid, Not Afraid (also screenwriter, dialogist)
CARION, CHRISTIAN (January 4, 1963, Cambrai,
Nord, France–)
Born into a peasant family, he graduated from the
Strasbourg National School for Water and Environment
Engineering in 1986. He remained an engineer
at the Ministry of Agriculture until 2001, the very year
he directed his fi rst feature fi lm (he already had fi lmed
shorts). Other credit (as actor): 2006 Ne le dis à Personne
/ UK and USA: Tell No One (Guillaume Canet).
Filmography
1994 Doucement les Violons! (short; also screenwriter)
1997 Le Château d’Eau (short; also screenwriter)
1999 Monsieur le Député (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2001 Une Hirondelle a fait le Printemps / UK and
USA: The Girl From Paris (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2005 Joyeux Noël! / USA: Merry Christmas (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist)
CARIVEN, CLAUDE (May 4, 1917, Paris, France–)
A former assistant director (1942 Fièvres, Jean Delannoy;
1948 Toute la Famille était là, Jean de Marguenat),
he directed only one feature fi lm.
Filmography
1952 L’Amour n’est pas un Péché (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
CARL, RENÉE (Renée Grolleau / June 10, 1875,
Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, France–July 31, 1954,
Paris, France)
She played at the Théâtre des Arts before being
under contract with Pathé. From 1907 (La Puce,
short, Louis Feuillade) to 1937 (Pépé le Moko, Julien
Duvivier), she co-starred in almost 200 fi lms and
notably portrayed Bébé’s mother in Louis Feuillade’s
Bébé series.
Filmography
1922 Un cri dans l’Abîme
CARLES, PIERRE (April 2, 1962, Talence, Gironde,
France–)
Having graduated from the Gradignan IUT Carrières
Sociales in 1988, he directed documentaries infl uenced
by Michael Moore for TV and cinema. Other
credit (as actor): 2004 Aaltra (Benoît Delépine, Gustave
de Kervern).
Filmography
1995 Juppé, forcément . . . (short; documentary)
1998 Pas vu, pas pris (documentary; also screenwriter)
2001 La Sociologie est un Sport de Combat (documentary)
2002 Enfi n pris? (documentary)
2003 Ingeborg et les Souris dansent (documentary;
short)
Attention Danger Travail! (documentary; codirector
with Christophe Coello and Stéphane
Goxe)
2006 Ni vieux, ni Traîtres (documentary; co-director
with Charles Minangoy)
Volem rien foutre al pais (documentary; codirector
with Christophe Coello and Stéphane
Goxe; shot in 2004)
2007 Choron dernière (documentary; co-director
with Eric Martin)
CARLIEZ, CLAUDE (January 10, 1925, Nancy,
Meurthe-et-Moselle, France–)
Having trained at the Institut National des Sports de
Paris and at the Ecole Magistrale d’Escrime, he became
a high school physical education teacher (1946–
1948). From 1948 to 1951, he was fencing master
at the court of the Great Duchy of Luxembourg.
He took part in the France championship of fencing
masters in 1956 and was selected for the world
championship in 1958. He entered fi lms in 1952 as a