René Féret
Born: 1945-05-26 in La Bassée, Nord, France
Died: 2015-04-28
Known For: Directing
Biography
René Féret (26 May 1945 – 28 April 2015) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. His film Solemn Communion, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. In The Man Who Wasn't There (L'Homme qui n'était pas là), his 1987 film adaption of Roderick MacLeish's novel, he played alongside Claude Jade in the leading role of Charles Elaine. Very much an independent creator, Féret made several films around an invented family living in northern France, the Gravets, but based on his own life experience. He often used members of his own family in his films. Féret also turned to marginal individuals, in trouble: a man sent to a psychiatric hospital in Histoire de Paul (1975), a hermaphrodite in Mystère Alexina, old age in Rue du Retrait (2000) and cancer sufferers in Comme une étoile dans la nuit (2009). Later in his career he turned his attention to historical artistic figures (Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart, 2010), Anton Tchékhov 1890 (2015). He work was described as “subtle and possessing great sensibility”. Source: Article "René Féret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2015
- Anton Tchekhov 1890 ... (Director)
2013
- Le Prochain film ... (Director)
2012
- Madame Solario ... (Director)
2010
- Mozart's Sister ... (Director)
2008
- Like a Star Shining in the Night as Marc and Eric's chef (uncredited)
2007
- Il a suffi que maman s'en aille… ... (Director)
2003
- L'Enfant du pays as Pierre Merveille
2001
1999
- East/West as Ambassadeur de France
1997
- Destiny ... (Producer)
1996
- Les frères Gravet ... (Director)
1994
1993
- The Place of Another ... (Director)
1992
- Summer Strolls ... (Director)
1989
- Baptême ... (Writer)
1988
- Savannah as Fabien
1987
- L'homme qui n'était pas là as Charles
- 40° à l'ombre as Self
1985
- The Mystery of Alexina ... (Director)
1983
- Sarah as Duparc, producer
- Side Roads ... (Producer)
1981
- The Prodigal Daughter as Le mari
- Last Summer ... (Producer)
1980
- Fernand ... (Director)
1977
- Solemn Communion as Julien Gravet I
1976
- Lumière as Julien
- I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother… ... (Delegated Producer)
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous as Marc, the shy colleague
- The Story of Paul ... (Director)