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Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Auxerre, Yonne, France
Jean-Paul Rappeneau (8 April 1932 — 2 September 2026) was a French film director and screenwriter. He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Loui…
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau (8 April 1932 — 2 September 2026) was a French film director and screenwriter. He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le métro in 1960 and Vie privée in 1961. In 1964, he was co-screenwriter for L'Homme de Rio, which starred Jean-Paul Belmondo. The first film that he both wrote and directed was A Matter of Resistance in 1965. Although it was a great critical and popular success, he did not make another film until 1971, when he directed Les Mariés de l'an II, again starring Belmondo and Marlène Jobert. Since 1975, Rappeneau has written only for his own films, including Le Sauvage, starring Yves Montand and Tout feu, tout flamme (1981), again with Montand, who co-starred with Isabelle Adjani. In 1990, Rappeneau directed a deluxe Technicolor film version of Cyrano de Bergerac, his adaptation of the classic French play by Edmond Rostand, starring Gérard Depardieu. Rappeneau's film version is the most elaborate film version of the play ever made, and one of the most expensive French films ever produced. It is the only rendition of the play in the original French to be released widely. At the 1991 César Awards, Rappeneau won the César Award for Best Director and César Award for Best Film. The 2003 comedy Bon voyage, co-written with Patrick Modiano, again starred Depardieu, this time with Isabelle Adjani. The film was nominated 11 times at the 2004 César Awards. Source: Article "Jean-Paul Rappeneau" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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2024
Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand
Movie Self
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2023
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
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2022
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
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2016
Belmondo by Belmondo
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2015
Families
Movie Director
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2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
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2013
Les Aventures d'Adrien: L'Affaire Catalan
Movie Self
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2011
Il était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien »
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2007
A City Runs Through the Festival
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2004
Leçon de Cinéma
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2003
Bon Voyage
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2003
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
Movie Self
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1995
The Horseman on the Roof
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1990
Cyrano de Bergerac
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1982
All Fired Up
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1978
Ciné regards
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1975
Lovers Like Us
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1974
Spécial cinéma
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1973
The Magnificent One
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1971
The Married Couple of the Year Two
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1966
A Matter of Resistance
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1965
Marco the Magnificent
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1964
That Man from Rio
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1962
Le Combat dans l'île
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1962
A Very Private Affair
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1961
Saint-Tropez Blues
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1960
Zazie dans le Métro
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1958
Provincial Chronicle
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1957
Appelez le 17
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That Man from Rio
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