Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

272 • CRISTIANI, JEAN-NOËL
movies (1983 La Guerre des Demoiselles, Jacques
Nichet; 2001 Certitude, short, Michka Gorki; Un
Monde derrière elle, short, Claude Guyonnet; 2002
Sur la Route d’Aglaé, short, Dominique Guérin-Lods;
2003 Lune, short, Hubert Gillet; Rouge Maman, short,
Frédéric Strauss; 2004 Si cinq Rois valaient cette Dame,
short, Pierre-Alain Lods; La Ballade du Gaucher, short,
Loïc Malo; 2005 Oublier Cheyenne / USA: Looking for
Cheyenne, Valérie Minetto; Telma Demain, short, Anna
Da Palma; L’Amour est aveugle, short, Alice Mitterrand;
Les Ailes coupées, short, Claude Guyonnet; 2006 Qui
sommes-nous?, short, Béatrice Pollet; 2008 Au Cœur de
l’Acteur, documentary, also producer, Antoine Benoît)
and TV documentaries (2002 Tout l’Or de la Montagne
noire, Catherine Pozzo di Borgo; L’Attrape-Temps,
Céline Thiou; 2003 Moscou entre Ciel et Terre, Valérie
Minetto). In 1990, she created the Festival of First
Films. Then she was general delegate of Perspectives
du Cinéma (Cannes Film Festival, 1991).
Filmography
1976 Une Approche (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1978 La Dame à la Licorne (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1980 Une Voix (short; also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1985 Contes clandestins (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist; shot in 1983)
1989 Vol nuptial (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
editor)
L’Important, c’est la Pomme! (short; also screenwriter)
1995 Naissances et Morts sous Infl uence (documentary;
originally shot for TV)
Je le sais par mes Mots (documentary; short)
Les Gammes du Lundi (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1998 Ma Sœur, mon Frère, ma Différence . . . (documentary)
2000 Les Cendres du Paradis (medium-length; also
screenwriter, dialogist, editor; shot in 1998)
CRISTIANI, JEAN-NOËL (1947, France–)
He directed documentaries on medicine (Le Silence
des Organes) and on jazz musicians.
Filmography
1976 Le Silence des Organes (documentary; also
screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1993 Edouard Glissant (documentary)
1996 Count Basie, l’Homme-Orchestre (documentary;
co-director with Elisabeth Kapnist)
John Coltrane (documentary)
1997 Max Roach (documentary)
CRUNCHANT, VALÉRIE
A stage actress and director since 1992, she played in
fi lms (2002 Le Livre, short, Magali Negroni; A la Hache,
short, Yves Caumon; 2004 Capitaine Achab, Philippe
Ramos; 2007 Guillaume et les Sortilèges, Pierre Léon)
and TV movies (1996 17 Ans et des Poussières, Joël
Santoni; 1997 La Vie en Face, Laurent Dussaux). She
co-directed a feature fi lm with Jean-Paul Civeyrac.
Filmography
2003 Toutes les belles Promesses (co-director with
Jean-Paul Civeyrac; also actor)
CUAU, EMMANUELLE (October 9, 1964, Roubaix,
Nord, France–)
The daughter of lawyer, journalist, and fi lm critic
Bernard Cuau (1935–1995), she entered the IDHEC
in 1983 and graduated in 1986 (directing and photography
department). She occasionally played in fi lms
(1990 Les Aventures de Catherine C., Pierre Beuchot;
1992 Siblings, ce qu’on ne peut traduire, short, Bénédicte
Brunet) and co-wrote a few movies (1996 Pourquoi
partir?, short, Bastien Duval, Bernadette Lafont;
1998 Secret Défense / UK and USA: Secret Defense,
Jacques Rivette; La Photo, short, Marie-Hélène Mille;
2001 L’Homme des Foules, John Lvoff, France / Portugal
/ Poland). Her sister is actress Marianne Denicourt
(b. 1966).
Filmography
1984 La Ronde (short)
1985 Reno (short)
1993 Offre d’Emploi (short; also co-screenwriter)
1995 Circuit Carole (also co-screenwriter)
2007 Très bien, merci (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1999 Pepe Carvalho—Padre, patron / Histoire de Famille
(France / Italy / Spain)
De Mère inconnue
CUBAUD, JEAN (June 1, 1941, Marrakesch, Morocco–)