Michel Drach

Michel Drach begins at the time of the New Wave but belongs to no current He realizes romantic movies very political films that scandal movies on very personal melancholy After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts it is oriented towards the cinema by his cousin JeanPierre Melville where he became the assistant It begins with short films in a very personal invoice which Soliloques the poor 1951 and Auditorium 1957 and then passes feature film is not buried on Sunday 1959 study on the existential loneliness of a Black in Paris which earned him the Louis Delluc price announcement by the style of filming and production method the New Wave The delicacy and warmth of its beings approach are confirmed in the melancholy or love Amelie time 1962 After the interlude of the Good Occase 1965 and Diamond Safari 1966 it is the auteur cinema it is writer of all his films with Elise or Real Life 1970 according to Claire book Etcherelli where talent thrives MarieJosé Nat his wife in the character of a bruised love with a French Algerian performer Mohamed Chouikh at the time of the war in Algeria Its commitment to the left appears again in Violins at the Ball 1974 involved mention of his Jewish childhood during the Occupation and The PullOver Red 1979 a chronicle of an alleged miscarriage of justice In Speak to Me of Love 1975 The Simple Past 1977 and Guy de Maupassant 1982 he confirms its attractiveness to psychological intrigue In 1986 Flee Lola it addresses the issue of cancer and the relations between grandfather and toddler son in it is awesome Grandpa 1987 He is married to MarieJosé Nat with whom he had three children David Julian and Aurelian He is also the cousin of Nicole Stephane