- Known For
- Writing
- Born
- April 8, 1932
- Place of Birth
- Auxerre, Yonne, France
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Jean-Paul Rappeneau (born 8 April 1932) is 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…
Filmography
movieOnce Upon a Time Michel Legrand
2024 · Self
movieCatherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2023 · Self (archive footage)
movieDans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
2022 · Self
movieBelmondo by Belmondo
2016 · Self
movieFamilies
2015 · Director, Writer
movieHenri Langlois vu par...
2014 · Self, Director
Les Aventures d'Adrien: L'Affaire Catalan
movieLes Aventures d'Adrien: L'Affaire Catalan
2013 · Self
movieIl était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien »
2011 · Self (cinéaste)
movieA City Runs Through the Festival
2007 · Self
tvLeçon de Cinéma
2004 · Self
movieClaude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
2003 · Self
movieBon Voyage
2003 · Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
movieThe Horseman on the Roof
1995 · Screenplay, Director
movieCyrano de Bergerac
1990 · Screenplay, Director
movieAll Fired Up
1982 · Director, Screenplay
movieCatherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
1978 · Self
movieLovers Like Us
1975 · Director, Writer
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
movieThe Magnificent One
1973 · Writer
movieThe Married Couple of the Year Two
1971 · Director, Writer
movieA Matter of Resistance
1966 · Screenplay, Director
movieMarco the Magnificent
1965 · Writer
movieThat Man from Rio
1964 · Writer
movieLe Combat dans l'île
1962 · Writer
movieA Very Private Affair
1962 · Writer
movieSaint-Tropez Blues
1961 · Writer
movieZazie dans le Métro
1960 · Screenplay
movieProvincial Chronicle
1958 · Director, Screenplay
movieAppelez le 17
1957 · First Assistant Director
That Man from Rio
movieThat Man from Rio
— · Original Film Writer