Jean Achache

French film director

Carole Achache

(m. 2016, died)

ChildrenMona Achache

Jean Achache (born 1952) is a French director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer.^[1]

Biography

Jean Achache began his career as a filmmaker in the mid-1970s alongside Robert Enrico as an assistant director for Le Vieux Fusil and The Secret.^[2] In the eighties, he collaborated with Bertrand Tavernier on films like Death Watch or A Sunday in the Country. Jean Achache then turned to the realization of his own works through clips,^[3] documentaries like Diabolo's Workshop with Terry Gilliam^[4] and films like the adaptation of the novel Un soir au Club by Christian Gailly in 2009.^[5]

In 2006, he published his first novel, Juste une nuit at Éditions du Masque.^[6] ISBN 2-7024-3296-4

Personal life

Achache was married to French writer and photographer Carole Achache, with whom he had a daughter, Mona Achache, born on 18 March 1981.^[7]^[8]

In 2023, Achache portrayed himself in a biographical docudrama about Carole Achache, Little Girl Blue, which was directed by their daughter, Mona Achache.^[7]^[9]

Filmography

Assistant director

1974: The Secret
1975: Le Vieux Fusil

Director

Cinema

1994: Les deux Amants (short film)
1994: 3000 scénarios contre un virus [fr] (short film)
2004: Marcel !
2006: La guerre du Nil aura-t-elle lieu ? (documentary)
2009: Diabolo'S Workshop (documentary)
2009: Un soir au club

Clips

1989: Le petit Train, Les Rita Mitsouko
1990: Regarde les riches, Patricia Kaas
1990: Au Tourniquet des grands cafés, Jean Guidoni
1990: Des fleurs pour Salinger, Indochine
1991: Punishment Park, Indochine
1997: Love in Motion, Peter Kingsbery

Producer

1987: Waiting for the moon

Screenwriter

2009: Un soir au club

References

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^ "cinémotions". Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
^ "commeaucinema". Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
^ "site du film". Archived from the original on 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
^ [2] Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine site de l'éditeur
^ ^a ^b Lacuve, Jean-Luc (25 November 2023). "Little Girl Blue de Mona Achache". Ciné-club de Caen (in French).
^ "Mona Achache". Première (in French). Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
^ Goldszal, Clémentine (11 November 2023). "Avec "Little Girl Blue", la cinéaste Mona Achache affronte les fantômes de son histoire" [With "Little Girl Blue", filmmaker Mona Achache confronts the ghosts of her story]. Le Monde (in French).