Directing
Michel Deville
Born 1931-04-13 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France · Died 2023-02-16
Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.
Known for
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Deep Water
Love at the Top
Death in a French Garden
Raphael or the Debauched One
La Lectrice
The Art of Breaking Up
Sachs' Disease
Dossier 51
Son of Gascogne
The Nonentity
Sweetheart
The Bear and the Doll
Almost Peaceful
Against Oblivion
A Sweet Journey
Summer Night in Town
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Soldier Martin
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
The Secrets of the Bed
Because, Because of a Woman
The Woman in Blue
Bye Bye Barbara
Tender Sharks
Les capricieux
Lucky Jo
The Gods Must Be Daring
The Apprentice Heel
Life's Little Treasures
The Little Misses
Girl's Apartment
Adorable Liar