Michel Deville

Director

Born: April 13, 1931 (91 years old)

Died: February 16, 2023

Place of birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Biography

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.

Filmography (27)

• Raphael or the Debauched One (1971, ★ 5.8)
• Death in a French Garden (1985, ★ 6)
• Love at the Top (1974, ★ 6)
• The Bear and the Doll (1970, ★ 6.1)
• The Nonentity (1986, ★ 6)
• Dossier 51 (1978, ★ 6.4)
• La Lectrice (1988, ★ 6.2)
• A Sweet Journey (1980, ★ 6.4)
• Sachs' Disease (1999, ★ 6.4)
• Deep Water (1981, ★ 6.1)
• The Diary of an Innocent Boy (1968, ★ 5.9)
• Lucky Jo (1964, ★ 6.7)
• Sweetheart (1992, ★ 6.1)
• The Apprentice Heel (1977, ★ 6)
• Razzia (1955, ★ 6.7)
• Almost Peaceful (2002, ★ 5.5)
• Tonight or Never (1961, ★ 4.8)
• Adorable Liar (1962, ★ 5.6)
• The Art of Breaking Up (2005, ★ 5)
• Life's Little Treasures (1994, ★ 4.8)
• The Woman in Blue (1973, ★ 5.2)
• Summer Night in Town (1990, ★ 5.5)
• Son of Gascogne (1995, ★ 4.3)
• The Gods Must Be Daring (1997, ★ 4)
• Because, Because of a Woman (1963, ★ 4.8)
• A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (1958, ★ 5.2)
• The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen (1966, ★ 4.7)