Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

242 • COLOMBANI, LAETITIA
After studying literature and political science at Sciences
Po, she worked for the Arte TV channel’s fi ction
department and New York MoMA’s fi lm department.
Then she wrote about fi lms for the daily newspaper
Le Monde and regularly collaborated on the Monde
2 and weekly newsmagazine Le Point. She authored
several books: 2004 Elia Kazan, une Amérique du Chaos
(Editions Philippe Rey); 2006 Proust-Visconti, Histoire
d’une Affi nité (Editions Philippe Rey); 2008 Woody Allen
(Cahiers du Cinéma).
Filmography
2006 L’Etrangère (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
COLOMBANI, LAETITIA (April 6, 1975, Bordeaux,
Gironde, France–)
Having graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure
Louis Lumière in 1998 (her dissertation was on La
Folie au Cinéma) and from the Paris Conservatory’s
dramatic art class, she attended Oscar Sisto’s musical
comedy school. She made her fi lm debut as an actress
in fi lms (1997 Je passe au vingt Heures, short, Areski
Ferhat; 1998 Cousine Bette, uncredited, Des McAnuff,
UK / USA; 2002 Paradisco, short, Stéphane Ly-Cuong;
2003 La Faucheuse, short, Vincenzo Marano, Patrick
Timsit; Gomez et Tavarès, Gilles Paquet-Brenner; Vie
et Mort d’un Instant d’Ennui, short, Patrick Bossard;
Je vous salue, short, Geoffrey Boulangé; Basic Actrice,
short, Benoît Pétré; Babyphone, short, Benoît Pétré;
Femme fractale, short, Eric Oumer; Le plus beau Jour de
sa Vie, short, Jean-Marc Vincent; La Déclaration, short,
Jean-François Fontanel; Comment il va, short, Samuel
Tasinaje; 2004 Pas bouger!, short, Xavier Daugreilh;
Accros, short, Marie Caldéra; 2005 Belle, enfi n possible,
short, Régis Poinsard; Libre Echange, short, Olivier de
Plas; Foon, Benoît Pétré, Deborah Saïag, Mika Tard, Isabelle
Vitari; 2006 Adela Marta, short, Jérôme Maldhé;
EXs, short, Benoît Pétré) and on TV (2004 Qui mange
quand?, Jean-Paul Lilienfeld; Trois Femmes Flics, Philippe
Triboit; 2005 Retiens-moi!, Jean-Pierre Igoux). Other
credits (as second assistant camera): 1995 Le Retour
d’Arsène Lupin / Les Nouveaux Exploits d’Arsène Lupin
(episode “La Robe de Diamants,” Nicolas Ribowski);
1996 Beaumarchais, l’Insolent / USA: Beaumarchais the
Scoundrel (Edouard Molinaro).
Filmography
1998 Le Dernier Bip (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1999 Mémoire de Puce (short, also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2002 A la Folie . . . pas du tout (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2003 Casting urgent (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
Quelques Mots d’Amour (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Une Fleur pour Marie (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2008 Mes Stars et moi (also screenwriter, dialogist)
COLOMBAT, JACQUES (1940, Paris, France–)
In 1958, he met fi lmmaker Paul Grimault, who introduced
his animated fi lms at the Arts Appliqués school
in Paris, where he was a student. He immediately gave
up his studies to work with Grimault. His two fi rst
shorts were produced by his master. He also was an
occasional actor (1964 Le Petit Claus et le grand Claus,
TV, Pierre Prévert; 1980 Le Roi et l’Oiseau, animation,
voice only, Paul Grimault ) and appeared as himself in
a documentary (2003 Paul Grimault, Image par Image,
documentary, as himself, Fabienne Issartel).
Filmography
1961 Marcel, ta Mère t’appelle (animated short; also
screenwriter)
1963 Western (short)
1964 Les Filous (short; also screenwriter, adapter)
1965 La Tartelette (animated short; also screenwriter,
adapter)
1969 Calaveras (animated short; also screenwriter)
1971 La Montagne qui accouche (animated short)
1972 Un Train peut en cacher un Autre (short; also
screenwriter)
1974 Un Train peut en cacher un autre (short)
1991 Robinson et Compagnie (animation; also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, associate producer)
Television Filmography
1994 Les Contes du Chat perché (animation; TV series)
COLOMBIER, PIERRE / PIÈRE (March 18, 1896,
Compiègne, Oise, France–January 25, 1958, Montrouge,
Hauts-de-Seine, France)
A former drawer and caricaturist, he directed his fi rst
movies for Gaumont. Other credits (as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter): 1945 Le Roi des Resquilleurs (Jean
Devaivre); (as production designer): 1954 Le Printemps,
l’Automne et l’Amour (Gilles Grangier).