Claude Miller

Scénariste, Acteur, Directeur, Producteur

20 février 1942 — 4 avril 2012 (70 ans)
Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter.

Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard.

His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and La meilleure façon de marcher (The Best Way to Walk, 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) and The 400 Blows (1959). Miller received César nominations for Best Director and César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation for this film.

His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the same production personnel. The following year he made Dites-lui que je l'aime, for which he received a second César nomination for Best Director. He won a César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation in 1981 for Garde à vue, and the Louis Delluc Prize in 1985 for L'Effrontée, for which he received another César nomination for Best Director. In 1983 he directed Mortelle randonnée. When Truffaut died in 1984 during the preparation of another feature about a confused, adolescent serial thief entangled with an older lover, La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief), Miller took over the project, completing the film in 1988. The latter film was a considerable international success, and solidified Miller's status as one of France's major film-makers. On French television, Miller directed dozens of commercials and the six-part miniseries Traits de Mémoire (1976).

After a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist (1992) and Le Sourire (1994). He had to wait until 1998 for his next major success: La Classe de Neige, the chilling story of a lonely boy on a school skiing holiday, which won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Later films Miller directed include Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001) which Peter Bradshaw wrote that Miller "endowed it with the fascination of an exotic, spiky, poisonous flower", La Petite Lili (2003), and A Secret (2007). At the time of his death he was working on an adaptation of François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux. The film was selected to close the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

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Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Thérèse Desqueyroux
    Thérèse Desqueyroux2012

Connue pour

  • La Nuit américaine
    La Nuit américaine1973
  • Au hasard Balthazar
    Au hasard Balthazar1966
  • L'Enfant sauvage
    L'Enfant sauvage1970
  • La Chinoise
    La Chinoise1967
  • Week End
    Week End1967
  • Suspicion
    Suspicion2000
  • Garde à vue
    Garde à vue1981
  • L'Histoire d'Adèle H.
    L'Histoire d'Adèle H.1975
  • Thérèse Desqueyroux
    Thérèse Desqueyroux2012
  • Domicile conjugal
    Domicile conjugal1970
  • Un secret
    Un secret2007
  • Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
    Les Demoiselles de Rochefort1967
  • Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent
    Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent1971
  • Mortelle randonnée
    Mortelle randonnée1983
  • 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle
    2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle1967
  • La Classe de neige
    La Classe de neige1998
  • La Petite Voleuse
    La Petite Voleuse1988
  • L'Effrontée
    L'Effrontée1985
  • La Petite Lili
    La Petite Lili2003
  • La Meilleure Façon de marcher
    La Meilleure Façon de marcher1976

Filmographie

2012
ThérèseSur Plex
2011
See How They Dance · as Screenplay
2009
2007
2003
2001
Alias Betty · as Screenplay
2000
Under Suspicion · as Original Film Writer
2000
Of Woman and Magic · as Screenplay
1998
Class Trip · as Screenplay
1994
1992
1988
The Little Thief · as Screenplay
1985
1981
1981
1978
1977
Tell Her That I Love Her · as Screenplay
1976
1971

Claude Miller Movies and TV Shows - Plex