Europe 1 with AFP 7:23 p.m., January 18, 2023
The filmmaker Paul Vecchiali, companion of the New Wave, author of "The Tricks of the Devil" in 1965, of "At the top of the steps" in 1983 or even "Pas... de quartier" in 2021, died Wednesday at the 92 years old.
He leaves a film almost finished, shot in one day and called "Bonjour la langue", in homage to Jean-Luc Godard.
Filmmaker Paul Vecchiali died overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday at the age of 92, after a career as abundant as it was sharp, his relatives announced to AFP on Wednesday.
Companion of the New Wave, whose work could explore AIDS, pornography or violence, Paul Vecchiali died in a hospital in the south of France, said his companion, Malik Saad.
"He was someone who lived only for the cinema, since the age of five," added actor Ugo Broussot to AFP, who played in three of his films, including the last,
Pas ... neighborhood
(2021), and who remembers "his artistic audacity".
One last film almost finished
He had never stopped working and leaves a film almost finished, shot in one day and baptized
Bonjour la langue
, in homage to Jean-Luc Godard and his
Adieu au Langage
(2014), with which he corresponded, specified Ugo Broussot .
The one who readily presented himself as a "researcher" filmmaker, and was also a critic for the Cahiers du Cinéma, has made a total of fifty films, including thirty feature films.
A polytechnician by training, he very quickly turned to the cinema, delivering in 1965 a first feature film,
Les Tricks of the Devil
.
His idol was Danielle Darrieux, whose teenage photos he collected in Toulon and whom he notably made in
Top of the Steps
(1983), a film that pays tribute to his mother and evokes the trauma of war.