Michel Drach
Directing

Michel Drach

Born 18 October 1930 · Paris, France · Died 15 February 1990

Michel Drach begins at the time of the New Wave, but belongs to no current. He realizes romantic movies, very political films that scandal movies on very personal melancholy. After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, it is oriented towards the cinema by his cousin Jean-Pierre Melville, where he became the assistant. It begins with short films in a very personal invoice, which Soliloques the poor (1951) and Auditorium (1957) and then passes feature film is not buried on Sunday (1959) study on the existential loneliness of a "Black" in Paris, which earned him the Louis Delluc price announcement by the style of filming and production method, the New Wave. The delicacy and warmth of its beings approach are confirmed in the melancholy or love Amelie time (1962). After the interlude of the Good Occase (1965) and Diamond Safari (1966), it is the auteur cinema (it is writer of all his films) with Elise, or Real Life (1970, according to Claire book Etcherelli), where talent thrives Marie-José Nat, his wife, in the character of a bruised love with a French Algerian (performer Mohamed Chouikh) at the time of the war in Algeria.

Known for

The Red Sweater
Violins at the Ball
Elise, or Real Life
One Does Not Bury Sunday
Gramps Is a Great Guy!
Guy de Maupassant
Replay
Amelie or The Time to Love
Diamond Safari
Parlez-moi d'amour
The Real Bargain
Les Compagnons de Jéhu
Gramps Is a Great Guy!
Sauve-toi, Lola
Guy de Maupassant
The Red Sweater
Replay
Parlez-moi d'amour
Violins at the Ball
Elise, or Real Life
Diamond Safari
The Real Bargain
Amelie or The Time to Love
One Does Not Bury Sunday
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