Jacques Rouffio
Jacques Rouffio ( born August 14, 1928 in Marseille as Jacques Camille Jean Rouffio ) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He has written over 15 screenplays and led by well-known film and television films, the director, including the French film The walker of Sans Souci with Romy Schneider.
Life and work
Jacques Rouffio, born in 1928 in Marseille, Provence- Alpes -Cote d' Azur in the South of France in 1953 was the first assistant director Jean Delannoy under veteran in the film La Route Napoléon. Later he worked as an assistant to French director likes of Henri Decoin, Henri Verneuil and Georges Franju. From 1953 to 1963 he learned so over ten years starting from the bottom to the Director - craft before it in 1967 with The horizon realized his first feature film for the cinema. A drama with actors Jacques Perrin and Macha Méril in the lead roles.
His commercial successes began in the mid 1970s with dramatic films such as Bestial Quartet with stars like Gerard Depardieu and Jane Birkin (1975 ), Violet and François ( 1977), with Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Dutronc, Serge Reggiani, or the thriller sugar, sugar! (1978), in which Jean Carmet, Gérard Depardieu and Michel Piccoli played the lead roles.
1976 Rouffio was nominated for his film Quartet Bestial both for the César for Best Movie as well as for the César for Best Screenplay along with Georges Conchon. In 1979, the duo Georges Conchon and Jacques Rouffio was again nominated for a César Award for Best Screenplay in the category. This was for the movie sugar, sugar!.
1982 turned Rouffio another drama with the walker of Sans Souci, this time in the lead roles while Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli. The critics wrote to The walker of Sans Souci *
" As a major flashback narrated melodramatic love story with implications acting badly constructed and the evoked Nazi period starts rather than nostalgic -inspired time backdrop. Outstanding alone the acting Romy Schneider in her last role. "
In 1986, he directed the comedy thriller My brother in law killed my sister, again with Michel Piccoli in the lead role. To see at his side as co-stars were Serrault and Juliette Binoche. The movie was released in the same year as a competition entry at the International Film Festival in Berlin. That same year, the romantic drama was the love of Florence Vannier with Nicole Garcia and Sami Frey. In 1989, he turned with L' Orchestre rouge then his last movie.
The music for his eight movies contributed the French composer Serge Gainsbourg, five times Philippe Sarde, Georges Delerue and the Italian composer Carlo Savina L' Orchestre rouge.
In the 1990s and 2000s Rouffio could not build on the great successes of the 1970s and 1980s, and therefore laid entirely on the staging of television films.
Reception
German translation of the interview with Jacques Rouffio film music ". Born on 14 August 1928 in Marseille First film: - The Horizon " ... " Jacques Rouffio, which are for the most outstanding scores in the film" - "There is nothing exemplary, but works great with their great music. the spectrum is wide, because of the requested number of different effects in a movie. You never know in advance at the beginning of the project, what to expect. No forecasts ".