Jean-Charles Tacchella

Overview

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.

Source: Article "Jean-Charles Tacchella" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting
2013	René Clément au cœur de la nouvelle vague	Actor	Self	N/A N/A
1970	Happy He Who Like Ulysses	Actor	Un automobiliste / Un homme aux arènes d'Arles (uncredited)	59 Average
1960	The Itchy Palm	Actor	Second priest (uncredited)	58 Average
Directing
2000	People Who Love Each Other	Directing	Director	58 Average
1995	Seven Sundays	Directing	Director	59 Average
1992	L'homme de ma vie	Directing	Director	58 Average
1990	Gallant Ladies	Directing	Director	58 Average
1987	Travelling avant	Directing	Director	58 Average
1985	Staircase C	Directing	Director	58 Average
1981	Croque la vie	Directing	Director	58 Average
1979	Silver Anniversary	Directing	Director	58 Average
1977	Blue Country	Directing	Director	59 Average
1975	Cousin, Cousine	Directing	Director	59 Average
1974	Voyage to Grand Tartarie	Directing	Director	N/A N/A
Writing
2000	People Who Love Each Other	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1995	Seven Sundays	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1992	L'homme de ma vie	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1990	Gallant Ladies	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1989	Cousins	Writing	Original Story	58 Average
1987	Travelling avant	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1985	Staircase C	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1981	Croque la vie	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1979	Silver Anniversary	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1977	Blue Country	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1975	Cousin, Cousine	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1971	Les jambes en l'air	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1966	Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!	Writing	Writer	73 Good
1966	Long March	Writing	Writer	N/A N/A
1964	The Big Hit	Writing	Adaptation	59 Average
1962	Crime Does Not Pay	Writing	Scenario Writer	58 Average
1962	The Honors of War	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1960	The Itchy Palm	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1959	Come Dance with Me!	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1959	Time Bomb	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1959	Time Bomb	Writing	Story	58 Average
1958	The Law Is the Law	Writing	Story	60 Fair
1957	Typhoon Over Nagasaki	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1955	Heroes and Sinners	Writing	Writer	59 Average

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Jean-Charles Tacchella

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