Jean-Charles Tacchella

Scenariusz, Reżyseria, Aktor

23 września 1925 — 29 sierpnia 2024 (98 years)
Jean-Charles Tacchella (born 23 September 1925) is a French screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Cousin Cousine (1975), which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and which was later (1989) remade in a US version starring Ted Danson and titled Cousins.

Jean-Charles Tacchella studied in Marseilles and, just after the Liberation, left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director. He joined L'écran Français when he was nineteen where he worked with Renoir, Becker and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, actors, films and met André Bazin, Nino Frank, Roger Leenhardt, Roger Thérond and Alexandre Astruc. He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim, Anna Magnani, Vittorio de Sica and created the monthly “Ciné Digest” with Henri Colpi. In 1948, Tacchella, along with Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Astruc, Claude Mauriac, René Clément and Pierre Kast, established Objectif 49, an avant-garde film club whose president was Jean Cocteau. Objectif 49 became the birthplace of the New Wave.

Jean-Charles Tacchella has since directed eleven features, many of which have had successful international careers and been awarded prestigious prizes. They include Voyage to Grand Tartarie (1974), Cousin cousine (1975, nominated for the Oscars Césars, Silver Shell for Best Director at the 1976 San Sebastian International Film Festival), Le Pays bleu (1977), It's a Long Time I've Loved You (1979, Jury Prize at the Montreal Film Festival), Croque la vie (1981), Staircase C (1985, Prix de l'Académie française, Grand Prix at the Uppsala Film Festival), Travelling avant (1987, Best Male Newcomer for Thierry Frémont – Golden Tulip for Best Director at the Istanbul Film Festival), Gallant Ladies (Best Director, Digne Film Festival 1990), The Man of My Life (1992), Seven Sundays (1995).

Tacchella is described as being "a smooth technician, Tacchella's camera work is fluid and precise". And his movie Traveling avant (1987), roughly equivalent to the American film term "Tracking Shot", is described as "a semi-autobiographical paean to his youth as a cinema fanatic and cine-club enthusiast in post-war Paris".

Tacchella was President of the Cinémathèque Française from 2000–2003.

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Known For

  • Wielka włóczęga
    Wielka włóczęga1966
  • Kuzyni
    Kuzyni1989
  • Kuzyn, kuzynka
    Kuzyn, kuzynka1975
  • Czy chciałby pan ze mną zatańczyć?
    Czy chciałby pan ze mną zatańczyć?1959
  • Klatka C
    Klatka C1985
  • Prawo jest prawem
    Prawo jest prawem1958
  • Żywoty pań swawolnych
    Żywoty pań swawolnych1990
  • Bohaterowie są zmęczeni
    Bohaterowie są zmęczeni1955
  • Les gens qui s'aiment
    Les gens qui s'aiment1999
  • Travelling avant
    Travelling avant1987
  • Smak życia
    Smak życia1981
  • Mężczyzna mojego życia
    Mężczyzna mojego życia1992
  • Le pays bleu
    Le pays bleu1977
  • Chez Maupassant
    Chez Maupassant3 seasons
  • Kocham cię od tak dawna
    Kocham cię od tak dawna1979
  • Zbrodnia nie popłaca
    Zbrodnia nie popłaca1962
  • Tajfun nad Nagasaki
    Tajfun nad Nagasaki1956
  • Wielki skok
    Wielki skok1964
  • The Honors of War
    The Honors of War1962
  • Les jambes en l'air
    Les jambes en l'air1971

Filmografia

1970
Happy He Who Like Ulysses · as Motorist / Man At The Arenas Of Arles (uncredited)
1960
The Itchy Palm · as Second Priest (uncredited)

2009
2007
Chez Maupassant · as Scenario, Adaptation And Dialogue
1989
Cousins · as Original Story
1967
1964
Le gros coup · as Adaptation
1962
Crime Does Not Pay · as Scenario Writer
1959
Time Bomb · as Story
1958
The Law Is the Law · as Story
1953
Children of Love · as Collaboration
1950
Tomorrow Is Too Late · as Additional Writing