Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1991 Le Mariage blanc (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1995 Rosine (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1999 Qui plume la Lune? (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2007 Darling (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
Television Filmography
2001 Histoires d’Ado (documentary; episode Jérôme,
c’est moi)
CARRON, CHEYENNE (May 22, 1976, Valence,
Drôme, France–)
Abandoned by her parents at three months, she grew
up in a foster home. At age sixteen, she dropped out
of school and developed a compulsive interest in
movies, seeing several fi lms a day. She moved to Paris
at age nineteen. After drifting from one job to another,
she was hired to appear in advertising campaigns. She
directed her fi rst movie at age twenty-fi ve.
Filmography
2001 A une Madone (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
2007 Ecorchés (also screenwriter, dialogist; shot in
2005)
CARVILLE, ALAIN (June 3, 1952, Lyon, Rhône,
France–)
A former actor (1970–1973) and fashion photographer,
he was an assistant director on commercials (he
directed twenty-six fi lms of that kind). Other credit
(as co-screenwriter, producer, actor): 1984 Comment
draguer tous les Mecs (Jean-Paul Feuillebois).
Filmography
2007 Rue des Sans-Papiers / Vivre (also screenwriter,
dialogist; shot in 2003)
Television Filmography
1996 Le Black
2000 Sur les Traces de Jésus (documentary; also
producer)
2002 Le Matin du troisième Jour (documentary; also
producer)
CASABIANCA, CAMILLE DE (Camille Fraisse /
October 31, 1957, Paris, France–)
CASARIL, GUY • 185
The daughter of fi lm director Alain Cavalier (b. 1931)
and fi lm editor Denise de Casabianca, she graduated
from Sciences Po and earned a diploma in history.
In 1979, she enrolled in the political science department
at the University of California, Berkeley. Having
returned to France in 1980, she co-wrote with her
father the screenplay of Un Etrange Voyage (also actor;
Alain Cavalier, 1981). She occasionally played in
fi lms (1964 L’Insoumis / US TV: Have I the Right to Kill?,
Alain Cavalier; 1981 Modesty, short, as herself, Bob
Rafelson, USA; 1982 Die Erbtöchter / Les Filles héréditaires,
Viviane Berthommier, Jutta Brückner, Danièle
Dubroux, Marie-Christine Questerbert, Helma Sanders-Brahms,
Ula Stöckl, West Germany / France; 1984
Les Voleurs de la Nuit / Thieves After Dark, Samuel Fuller;
1985 Contes clandestins, Dominique Crèvecoeur;
P.R.O.F.S., Patrick Schulmann; 1986 Rejtözködö, Zsolt
Kézcli-Kovács, Hungary; 1995 La Croisade d’Anne
Buridan, Judith Cahen) and TV movies (1983 La Veuve
rouge, Edouard Molinaro; 2006 Pour l’Amour de Dieu,
Ahmed Bouchaala, Zakia Tahri). She started her directing
career fi lming six shorts for the Mutuelle Agricole.
Other credit (as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist):
1986 Thérèse (Alain Cavalier).
Filmography
1986 Pékin Central (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
actor)
1989 Après la Pluie (also screenwriter, actor)
1990 Le Fruit de vos Entrailles (documentary)
1991 Octavio (short)
1995 Le Fabuleux Destin de Madame Petlet (also
screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
2000 Vive nous! (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
2003 Tatami (documentary)
CASARIL, GUY (November 1, 1933, Miramontde-Guyenne,
Lot-et-Garonne, France–May 3, 1996,
Chapel Hill, Australia)
He studied Oriental languages and then enrolled in
the IDHEC (directing and production section, 1952–
1954). From 1954 to 1956, he worked as a cameraman
on shorts and directed several shorts before
serving as an assistant director at the RTF and ORTF
(French TV from 1957 to 1973). A TV producer, he
shot several documentaries before directing his fi rst
feature fi lm in 1968. He co-wrote the screenplay of
Philippe de Broca’s Julie Pot-de-Colle (1977). By the
mid-1970s, he gave up directing to translate (sometimes
in collaboration with his wife Françoise) from