Jean-Paul Rappeneau

He entered French films as an assistant director, later directing a number of shorts. As a screenwriter he collaborated with Louis Malle and shared an Oscar nomination with Philippe de Broca’s That Man From Rio (1964). He made an auspicious debut as a director with La Vie De Château, but he was not universally admired until 1990, when he turned out a sumptuous, definitive screen adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Gérard Depardieu. In 1995 he wrote and directed Le Hussard sur le toit, and in 2003 Bon voyage.

Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca