Jean-Charles Tacchella (23 September 1925 – 29 August 2024) was 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 remade in the U.S. as Cousins (1989) starring Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young and William Petersen.
Early career Jean-Charles Tacchella was born on 23 September 1925 in Cherbourg, Manche. He had Genoese ancestry. He studied in Marseille and, just after the liberation of France, left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director. He joined when he was nineteen, where he worked with Jean Renoir, Becker, and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, actors, films and met André Bazin, Nino Frank, Roger Leenhardt, , 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 cinema.Unifrance Site
Film director Jean-Charles Tacchella 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), and Seven Sundays (1995).
Tacchella was described as being "a smooth technician, Tacchella's camera work is fluid and precise". His movie Traveling avant (1987) is described as "a semi-autobiographical paean to his youth as a cinema fanatic and cine-club enthusiast in post-war Paris".quote from Film.com Site
Cinémathèque Tacchella was President of the Cinémathèque Française from 2000 to 2003.
Death Tacchella died in Versailles, Yvelines on 29 August 2024, at the age of 98.
Selected filmography Source: +YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer1955The Heroes Are TiredNoYesNo1957Typhoon over NagasakiNoYesNo1958The Law Is the LawNoYesNo1959Come Dance with MeNoYesNo1959 (Le vent se lève)NoYesNo1959CroquemitoufleNoYesNo1960The Itchy PalmNoYesNo1961The Honors of WarNoYesNo1962Crime Does Not PayNoYesNo1964The Thief of TibadaboNoYesNo1964The Great BlowNoYesNo1966La longue marcheNoYesNo1971Legs in the AirNoYesNo1971 (short)YesYesNo1973Une belle journée (short)YesYesNo1974YesYesNo1975Cousin CousineYesYesNo1978YesYesNo1979 (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)YesYesNo1981YesYesNo1985YesYesNo1987YesYesNo1990YesYesNo1992YesYesNo1994Seven SundaysYesYesNo1999Les Gens qui s'aimentYesYesNo
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