Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

426 • GARRAN, GABRIEL
Garçons et des Filles, Etienne Périer, France / Belgium)
to 2008 (Bancs publics (Versailles Rive droite)),
she played supporting, second lead, and leading
roles in about seventy fi lms.
Filmography
1986 Quinze Août (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1990 Un Week-End sur Deux / UK and USA: Every
Other Weekend (also original idea, co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1994 Le Fils préféré (also original idea, co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1998 Place Vendôme (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2002 L’Adversaire / El adversario (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Switzerland
/ Spain)
2006 Selon Charlie (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
GARRAN, GABRIEL
A stage director, he managed the Théâtre de la Commune
d’Aubervilliers. He had his fi rst professional contact
with cinema as an assistant director (1961 Janine,
short, Maurice Pialat; 1962 Adieu Philippine / Desideri
nel sole, Jacques Rivette, France / Italy) and occasionally
played small parts in fi lms (1977 Les Loulous, Patrick
Cabouat; 1986 Paulette, la pauvre petite Milliardaire,
Claude Confortès; 1992 A Demain, Didier Martiny).
Filmography
1983 Brûler les Planches (documentary)
GARREL, PHILIPPE (April 6, 1948, Boulogne-
Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
The son of actor and stage director Maurice Garrel (b.
1923) and the father of actor Louis Garrel (b. 1983),
he dropped out of high school at age sixteen and
shot his fi rst movie the same year. Then he worked
for the ORTF (French TV) Seize Millions de Jeunes
program. He was an assistant to director Claude Berri
(1967 Le Vieil Homme et l’Enfant / UK: Claude / The Old
Man and the Boy / USA: The Two of Us) and to Jean-
Pierre Lajournade (1968 Werther, TV movie). His fi rst
feature-length fi lm was originally shot for TV. Since
1968, he opted for a poetic and experimental cinema
and was true to himself until today. Other credits (as
actor): 1965 Jean-Luc persécuté (short, Claude Gore-
tta); 1968 Le Meurtre du Père (short, Jaime Semprun);
1979 Je meurs de Soif, j’étouffe, je ne puis crier . . . (short,
Gérard Courant); La Bande des Quatre (short, Gérard
Courant); 1982 Cinématon (short, as himself, Gérard
Courant); 1986 Dernier Cri / Soleil de Plomb (Bernard
Dubois); 1992 Golem, l’Esprit de l’Exil / Golem, lo spirito
dell’esilio / Golem, the Ghost of exile / Golem, the Spirit
of Exile, Amos Gitai, France / Italy / Germany / UK /
Netherlands); 1998 Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary,
episode “Philippe Garrel—Portrait d’un Artiste,”
Françoise Etchegaray); 2004 Le Fantôme d’Henri Langlois
/ USA: The Phantom of the Cinematheque (documentary,
Jacques Richard).
Filmography
1964 Les Enfants désaccordés (short; also screenwriter,
producer, editor)
1965 Droit de Visite (short; also screenwriter, producer,
editor)
1968 Anémone (originally shot for TV; also screenwriter,
dialogist; shot in 1966)
Le Révélateur (also screenwriter, producer, editor;
unreleased)
Actua 1 (short)
1972 Marie pour Mémoire (also screenwriter, producer,
editor; shot in 1967)
Le Lit de la Vierge (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
producer, actor, editor; shot in 1969)
La Cicatrice intérieure (also screenwriter, producer,
actor, editor; shot in 1970)
Athanor (short; also screenwriter, producer,
editor)
1974 Les Hautes Solitudes (also screenwriter, producer,
cinematographer, editor)
1975 La Concentration (also screenwriter, producer,
cinematographer, production designer, editor;
shot in 1968)
Un Ange passe (also screenwriter, producer,
cinematographer, sound engineer, editor)
1976 Le Berceau de Cristal (also screenwriter, producer,
cinematographer, actor, editor)
1978 Voyage au Jardin des Morts (short; also screenwriter,
producer, cinematographer, sound engineer,
editor)
1979 Le Bleu des Origines (medium-length; also
screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, actor,
editor)
1983 L’Enfant secret (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, actor, editor)
1984 Liberté, la Nuit (also screenwriter, dialogist,
editor)