As Director
The Art of Breaking Up
2005
5.1
Michel Deville
Directing
Birth Date
April 13, 1931
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Date of Death
February 16, 2023
Biography
Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.
Complete Filmography
As Director
Almost Peaceful
2002
5.7
As Director, As Writer
Sachs' Disease
1999
6.4
As Director, As Writer
The Gods Must Be Daring
1997
4.3
As Director
Life's Little Treasures
1994
5.1
As Director
Sweetheart
1992
6.3
As Director
Summer Night in Town
1990
5.8
As Director, As Writer
La Lectrice
1988
6.3
As Director, As Writer
The Nonentity
1986
6.1
As Director, As Writer
Death in a French Garden
1985
6.0
As Director
The Little Bunch
1983
6.5
As Director, As Writer
Deep Water
1981
6.2
As Director, As Writer
Dossier 51
1978
6.5
As Director, As Writer
The Apprentice Heel
1977
6.0
As Director
Love at the Top
1974
6.1
As Director, As Writer
The Woman in Blue
1973
5.2
As Director
Raphael or the Debauched One
1971
6.1
As Director, As Writer
The Bear and the Doll
1970
6.1
As Director
Bye Bye Barbara
1969
3.5
As Director, As Writer
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968
6.0