André TéchinéFilmography

Born:: March 13, 1943 in Valence d'Agen, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of France's most important Post-New Wave directors, André Téchiné has distinguished himself with elegant films that often delve into the complexities of human emotion and relationships. Known particularly for his ability to draw strong performances out of his female performers, Téchiné has...Read More

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La Fille du RER

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Émilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Ronit Elkabetz, Mathieu Demy, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Synopsis: It marked a grotesque and unseemly incident that took the European press by storm: in 2004, a young French woman came forward and claimed to have been attacked by black and Arabic thugs who mistook her for a Jew. But after her story broke, no witnesses came forward to support her, and security Read More

3/18/09
The Witnesses

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu, Johan Libereau

Synopsis: The early days of the AIDS crisis in France provides the backdrop for this powerful, life-affirming drama from writer and director André Téchiné. It's 1984, and Mehdi (Sami Bouajila) is a police detective who, unbeknownst to his wife Sarah (Emmanuelle Béart), is a bisexual who has occasional Read More

2/1/08
40 x 15

Synopsis: Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world-renowned festival. Pierre-Henri Deleau Read More

2008
Changing Times

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, Lubna Azabal

Synopsis: A worldly construction supervisor travels to Tangier to ensure that a complicated job is completed by the projected date, only to find the torch he carries for a long-lost love rekindled with melancholy passion in director Andre Techine's pensive romantic drama. It's been thirty-years since Read More

2004
Strayed

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Clémence Meyer, Jean Fornerod

Synopsis: A woman struggles to trust a man who has become her protector and benefactor in this French drama set during World War II. In 1940, as German troops invade France, Odile (Emmanuelle Béart), a woman who has recently lost her husband, is desperate to get her two children, Philippe (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Read More

8/20/03
Loin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stephane Rideau, Lubna Azabal, Mohamed Hamaidi, Yasmina Reza, Jack Taylor

Synopsis: Veteran filmmaker Andre Techine takes DV camera in hand and directs this gritty romantic drama about a Moroccan truck driver and the girl he loves. Serge hauls goods -- both legal and illegal -- from North Africa to Spain. Spent mostly on the road, on ferries, or in customs offices, his life is Read More

2001
Beach Café

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Nolot, Ouassini Embarek, Leila Belarbi, Dalia Amrani, Meriem Serbah

Synopsis: Adapted from a work by Paul Bowles and co-written by Andre Techine, this film -- directed by Benoit Graffin) -- is about the complicated relationship between a young up-and-comer and a silver-haired lothario. Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from Read More

2001
Alice et Martin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Maguelon

Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, auteur Andre Techine offers an intense, intimate look inside the complex relationship between two emotionally dysfunctional people. Neither Alice (Juliette Binoche) nor Martin (Alexis Loret) seem emotionally healthy enough to sustain a relationship, but somehow they Read More

11/4/98
Transatlantique

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Laurence Côte, Joaquim Olarreaga, Hector Spinelli, Jose Olivera, Evelyne Didi

Synopsis: In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, she becomes involved with several other Read More

9/3/97
Les Voleurs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel, Julien Riviere, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: André Téchiné's complex and ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers bringing home his father's body. The story of the deceased, Ivan (Didier Bezace), and his involvement with car thieves unfolds in flashbacks as Read More

1996
Wild Reeds

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Gael Morel, Stephane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny, Michèle Moretti

Synopsis: This is a nostalgic French coming-of-age drama from director Andre Techine set in a Provence deeply divided over the war for independence being waged against French colonialism in Algeria. In 1962, Francois (Gael Morel) and Maite (Elodie Bouchez) are best friends and students at a boarding school Read More

1994
My Favorite Season

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: French critic and filmmaker André Téchiné directs the intense family drama Ma Saison Préférée (My Favorite Season), which he co-wrote with screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer. Family matriarch Berthe (Marthe Villalonga) is advancing in years and developing health problems, so she goes to live with her Read More

1993
J'embrasse pas

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Manuel Blanc, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart

Synopsis: Young, naive and innocent, Pierre (Manuel Blanc) has dreams of becoming an actor. He is a good-looking and personable boy, and he has just moved to the city to see if he can't accomplish his dreams. He gets a job as an orderly at a hospital and is further supported by an older woman (Helene Vincent Read More

1991
Mauvaise Fille

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Florence Pernel, Daniel Gélin, Yvan Attal, Christian Vadim

1990
Rendez-Vous

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Lambert Wilson, Wadeck Stanczak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Juliette Binoche teams with Lambert Wilson in this erotic drama. Binoche plays Nina, the young lady friend of timid Paulot (Wadeck Stanczak). Though she intends to be true to Paulot, Nina falls hard for his roommate, Quentin (Wilson), a thoroughly self-centered actor who performs in live sex Read More

5/15/87
Le Lieu du Crime

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Danielle Darrieux, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: Scene of the Crime (Le Lieu du Crime) begins with a quote from Great Expectations. Thirteen-year-old Nicolas Giraudi, picking flowers in a cemetery, is surprised by escaped criminal Wadeck Stanczak, who orders the boy to bring him some money. Displaying no signs of fear, Giraudi does what he is Read More

1/23/87
Les Innocents

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Simon de la Brosse, Jean-Claude Brialy, Abdel Kechiche, Stephane Onfroy

Synopsis: The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama from director Andre Techine. Jeanne (Sandrine Bonnaire), born and raised in Northern France, is visiting the Mediterranean for the first time, prompted by two events: the wedding of her sister, and the Read More

1987
L'Atelier

Crew: Director

1984
La Matiouette

Crew: Director

Actors: Jacques Nolot, Patrick Fierry

1982
Hotel des Amériques

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Josiane Balasko, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: The beautiful Helene (Catherine Deneuve) works in a hospital as an anesthesiologist and so when she accidentally hits Gilles (Patrick Dewaere) while driving her car, she can jump out and know exactly what to do to make sure he is not seriously hurt. The two start off a relationship based on this Read More

1981
Les Soeurs Bronte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: The Bronte sisters are profiled in this biography. The film dramatizes the repressed Victorian lives of the three famed authors who all died young. Their writing, so full of life, was a total contrast to the reality of their existence, focused mostly upon arguing with their father and taking care Read More

1979
Barocco

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Former film critic André Téchiné directed and co-wrote this offbeat crime drama. Samson (Gérard Depardieu) is a down-on-his-luck boxer who manages to win a fortune thanks to a fixed fight. However, while Samson and his girlfriend Laure (Isabelle Adjani) are trying to get away with the money, he is Read More

1976
Aloise

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale, Monique Lejeune, Roger Blin, Marc Eyraud

Synopsis: The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Read More

1974
Souvenirs d'en France

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Auclair, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Mann, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France's economic peaks and valleys from the 1930s through the 1970s. Jeanne Moreau stars as Berthe Pedret, a Read More

1974
Paulina S'En Va

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Laura Betti, Michèle Moretti, Yves Beneyton

Synopsis: Paulina (Bulle Ogier) drifts aimlessly after she leaves her ailing brother. Struggling to find a place for herself in society, she first enters an insane asylum and later winds up in a whorehouse. She leaves the bordello and hooks up with some young revolutionaries as she continues to search for a Read More

1969