Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

ander / USA: Alexander, Yves Robert; Erotissimo, Gérard
Pirès, France / Italy; Vos Gueules les Mouettes!, Robert
Dhéry; 1975 Chronique des Années de Braise / Ahdat
sanawovach el-djamr / UK and USA: Chronicle of the
Burning Years / Chronicle of the Years of Fire, Mohammed
Lakdhar-Hamina, Algeria; 1976 Comme un Boomerang
/ Il fi glio del gangster / USA: Boomerang, José Giovanni,
France / Italy; 1977 Le Gang / La gang del Parigino / US
video: The Gang, Jacques Deray, France / Italy; L’Homme
pressé / L’ultimo giorno d’amore / UK: The Hurried Man /
USA: Man in a Hurry, Edouard Molinaro, France / Italy;
Le Mille-Pattes fait des Claquettes, Jean Girault; 1979 Les
Egouts du Paradis, José Giovanni; 1980 Tous Vedettes,
Michel Lang; 1982 Josépha, Christopher Frank; 1986
Paulette, la pauvre petite Milliardaire, Claude Confortès;
Twist Again à Moscou, Jean-Marie Poiré; Charlotte for
Ever, Serge Gainsbourg) and second unit director
(1971 Les Pétroleuses / Le pistolere / Las pistoleras /
Petroleum Girls / USA: The Legend of Frenchie King, Guy
Casaril, Christian-Jaque, France / Italy / Spain / UK;
1979 Le Gendarme et les Extra-Terrestres / UK video:
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space, Jean
Girault). Other credits (as production manager): 1970
La Voiture électronique (documentary, short, Jacques
Doillon); (as technical adviser): 1975 Bons Baisers de
Hong-Kong (Yvan Chiffre); 1981 Une Affaire d’Hommes
/ USA: Dead Certain (Nicolas Ribowski); 1987 Les Keufs
(Josiane Balasko).
Filmography
1983 Tout le Monde peut se tromper (also coadapter)
1984 Charlots Connection
Television Filmography
1967– Les Chevaliers du Ciel (39 26'; co-director
1969 with François Villiers)
1971 Le Miroir 2000 / Les Sesterain (13 26'; codirector
with François Villiers)
1973 Les Aventures du Capitaine Lückner / Cap sur
l’Aventure / Trois Mâts pour l’Aventure / Graf
Luckner (13 26'; co-director with Yannick
Andréi, Jean-Pierre Decourt, François Villiers;
France / West Germany)
COUVELAIRE, LOUIS-PASCAL (November 1,
1954, Paris, France–)
He shot more than 400 commercials (his fi rst fi lm
was a trailer for a Jacques Higelin show in 1984) before
directing a couple of feature fi lms.
COUZINET, EMILE • 267
Filmography
2002 Sueurs (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2003 Michel Vaillant
COUVELARD, MICHEL (1963, Boulogne-sur-Mer,
Pas-de-Calais, France–)
He settled in Paris with his parents at age seven.
After attending drama courses, in 1981 he went to
Montpellier, where he worked for the Centre National
Dramatique. He returned to the French capital
in 1984 and studied audiovisual and communications.
Before directing his fi rst movie, a short, he fi lmed a
documentary and was an assistant director and production
assistant on several motion pictures (1990 La
Captive du Désert, Raymond Depardon; 1991 Bar des
Rails, Cédric Kahn).
Filmography
1994 Une Femme dans l’Ennui (short; also screenwriter)
1999 Inséparables (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
COUZINET, EMILE (November 12, 1896, Bourgsur-Gironde,
Gironde, France–October 24, 1964,
Bordeaux, Gironde, France)
He made his fortune as a casino manager in Royan.
In 1920, he founded a fi lm release company, Burgus
Films, and opened his fi rst movie theater, the Gallia,
in Agen. He designed the plans of the Rex, a baroque
pictures temple in Bordeaux that was classifi ed as a
historical monument. In 1938, he became a producer,
created his own studios (La Côte d’Argent [The
Silver Coast]) in Royan, and directed his fi rst feature
fi lm. He shot some of the silliest comedies ever
fi lmed and is regarded by some critics as a kind of
(wealthy!) French cousin of Ed Wood. He produced
two movies (1956 L’Inspecteur connaît la Musique, Jean
Josipovici; 1965 Le Coup de Grâce, Jean Cayrol, Claude
Durand).
Filmography
1939 Le Club des Fadas (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer)
L’Intrigante ou La Belle Bordelaise (also producer)
1942 Andorra ou les Hommes d’Airain (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer)
1943 Le Brigand gentilhomme (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist, producer)