Paul Vecchiali (28 April 1930 – 18 January 2023) was a French filmmaker and author.

Vecchiali at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Biography

edit

Vecchiali was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. He spent his childhood in Toulon[citation needed]. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war[citation needed].

His cinema took as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone[citation needed]. His best-known films are arguably Rosa la rose and Encore.[1] His films were notably low-budget.[1]

In 1987, he became the first director to link AIDS to homosexuality in a French film with his film Encore.[2]

Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, at the age of 92.[3]

Filmography

edit

Bibliography

edit
  • Vesperales (2008)

References

edit
  1. ^ a b Romain Charbon, 'Vesperales', in Têtu, October 2008, issue 137, page 32
  2. ^ Brigitte Rollet and James S. Williams, 'Visions of Excess: Filming/Writing the Gay Self in Collard's Savage Nights, in Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995, ed. Owen Heathcote, Alex Hughes, James S. Williams, Berg Publishers, 1998, page 195 [1]
  3. ^ "Le cinéaste Paul Vecchiali est mort". Les Inrockuptibles. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2023.

Video recording of a lecture by film critic Anton Mazurov at the Institut Francais 12 2023: "Paul Vecchiali - the heir to the era of Jean Renoir" (rus)==External links==