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Michel Deville born April 13, 1931, is a French film director.

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut , Jean-Luc Godard and Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.

One of Deville's comedies, La Lectrice ("The Reader") was probably his biggest success with international audiences. La Lectrice is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually finds herself unwittingly attracting a clientele of fetishists who enjoyed being read to.

At one time his films were difficult to find in North America but presently(2007) seven of his films are available in DVD in the US.

[edit] Partial filmography

Un monde presque paisible (Almost Peaceful), 2002
La Maladie de Sachs, 1999
Le Fils de Gascogne (Son of Gascogne), 1995
La Lectrice, 1988
Péril en la demeure (Death in a French Garden (UK title) and Peril (US title), 1985
Le Voyage en douce (Sentimental Journey), 1980
Le dossier 51, 1978
Le Mouton enragé, 1974
La Femme en bleu (The Woman in Blue), 1973
Raphaël ou le débauché, 1971
L'Ours et la poupée (The Bear and the Doll), 1969 (with Brigitte Bardot)
Benjamin (1968)

[edit] External links

Michel Deville at the Internet Movie Database