Jean-Charles Tacchella is a French

French people

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 screenwriter

Screenwriter

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  and film director

Film director

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. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Cousin, Cousine

Cousin, cousine

Cousin, cousine is a 1975 French film which tells the story of cousins-by-marriage who have an affair when they discover that their spouses have been unfaithful. It stars Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux and Marie-France Pisier....

(1975), which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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 and which was later (1989) remade in a US version starring Ted Danson

Ted Danson

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 and titled Cousins

Cousins (film)

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Early career

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

André Bazin

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, Nino Frank

Nino Frank

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, Roger Leenhardt

Roger Leenhardt

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, Roger Thérond and Alexandre Astruc

Alexandre Astruc

Alexandre Astruc is a French film critic and film director born 13 July 1923, in Paris .Before becoming a film director he was a journalist, novelist and film critic...

. He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim

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, Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani

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, Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio de Sica

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 and created the monthly “Ciné Digest” with Henri Colpi

Henri Colpi

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. In 1948, Tacchella, along with Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

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, Astruc, Claude Mauriac

Claude Mauriac

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, René Clément and Pierre Kast

Pierre Kast

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, established Objectif 49, an avant-garde film club whose president was Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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. Objectif 49 became the birthplace of the New Wave.

Film Director

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).

He 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".

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