Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

388 • FERRARI, ALAIN
2006 Lady Chatterley (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist; 2 105' TV version:
Lady Chatterley et l’Homme des Bois, France /
Belgium)
Television Filmography
2000 Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas, Quatre Jours à Ocoee
(documentary; shot in 1998)
FERRARI, ALAIN
He entered fi lms as a second assistant director (1963
Le Procès de Jeanne d’Arc / UK and USA: Trial of Joan
of Arc, Robert Bresson, shot in 1961). A fi lm historian,
he began directing documentaries in the early 1970s.
Other credit (as actor): 1991 Salut les Coquins (Marcel
Zemour).
Filmography
1971 Où vas-tu, Koumba?: Where Are You Going Koumba
(co-director with Simon Auge; Gabon /
France)
1994 Un Jour dans la Mort de Sarajevo / A Day in the
Death of Sarajevo (documentary)
Bosna! (documentary co-director with Bernard-
Henri Lévy; France / Bosnia-Herzegovina)
1997 Milice, Film noir (documentary)
Television Filmography
1980 La Gardienne (also screenwriter)
1984 Deux Filles sur un Banc
1985 Je suis à Rio, ne m’attends pas pour dîner
1988 Les Invisibles (animation; 30 5')
1989 Le Masque (episode “L’Homme qui ne voulait
pas tuer”)
2005 Pagnol et Compagnie (documentary)
FERREIRA-BARBOSA, LAURENCE (February
27, 1958, Versailles, Yvelines, France–)
After her studies in cinema at the University of Paris
VIII, she was an assistant director on several shorts
and a few feature fi lms (1987 Buisson ardent, Laurent
Perrin; 1989 Embrasse-moi, Michèle Rosier, shot in
1987). Seen as an actress in a couple of movies (1992
Bar des Rails, also casting director, Cédric Kahn; Riens
du tout, Cédric Klapisch), she co-wrote Le Silence de
Rak (Christophe Loizillon, 1997, shot in 1995), L’Ennui
/ O tedio (Cédric Kahn, France / Portugal, 1998), and
Feux rouges (Cédric Kahn, 2004).
Filmography
1982 Paris-Ficelle (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1985 Adèle Frelon est-elle là? (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1986 Sur les Talus (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1994 Les Gens normaux n’ont rien d’exceptionnel
/ UK: There’s Nothing Special About Normal
People / USA: Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
/ Normal People Are Nothing Special (also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1997 J’ai Horreur de l’Amour / UK: I Can’t Stand Love
/ USA: I Hate Love (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
2000 La Vie moderne (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
2004 Ordo (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France
/ Portugal / Canada)
2005 No (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2007 Dix Films pour en parler (one segment; also
screenwriter)
2008 Sois je meurs, sois je leur mieux (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1994 Tous les Garçons et les Filles de leur Âge: Paix et
Amour
2003 Motus (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
FERRIER, LAURENT (January 14, 1945, Courbevoie,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
He started as a trainee assistant director (1971
L’Homme de Désir, Dominique Delouche, shot in
1969) and remained assistant director for six years
(1973 Les Zozos, Pascal Thomas; Les Grands Sentiments
font les bons Gueuletons, Michel Berny, shot in
1971; Les Yeux fermés, Joël Santoni, shot in 1971; 1974
Out One Spectre / UK and USA: Out One: Specter,
Jacques Rivette, shot in 1970; France Société Anonyme,
Alain Corneau; 1975 L’Important c’est d’aimer
/ L’importante è amare / Nachtblende / UK: The Main
Thing Is to Love / USA: The Most Important Thing: Love,
Andrzej Zulawski, France / Italy / West Germany;
Parlez-moi d’Amour, Michel Drach; La Fille du Garde-
Barrière, Jérôme Savary; 1976 Les Œufs brouillés, Joël
Santoni; Le Voyage de Noces, as fi rst assistant director,
Nadine Trintignant; Jonas qui aura 25 Ans en l’An 2000
/ USA: Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, Alain