Michel Deville
Directing

Michel Deville

Born 13 April 1931 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France · Died 16 February 2023

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

Death in a French Garden
Love at the Top
Dossier 51
Deep Water
La Lectrice
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Sachs' Disease
The Nonentity
Raphael or the Debauched One
The Art of Breaking Up
Summer Night in Town
Lucky Jo
The Art of Breaking Up
Almost Peaceful
Sachs' Disease
The Gods Must Be Daring
Life's Little Treasures
Sweetheart
Lest We Forget
Summer Night in Town
La Lectrice
The Nonentity
Death in a French Garden
Les Capricieux
The Little Bunch
Deep Water
A Sweet Journey
Dossier 51
The Apprentice Heel
Love at the Top
The Woman in Blue
Raphael or the Debauched One
The Bear and the Doll
Bye Bye Barbara
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Tender Sharks
Soldier Martin
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Lucky Jo
The Little Misses
Because, Because of a Woman
Girl's Apartment
Adorable Liar
Tonight or Never
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
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