Chantal Poupaud (
née
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Richard; died 21 June 2022) was a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. After starting out as a press attachée, she was behind the 1990s
Arte series '.
Biography
Poupaud grew up in
Brissac-Quincé in
Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...
. She worked to promote the films of
Marguerite Duras for seven years, as well as films directed by
Benoît Jacquot
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Life and career
Born in Paris, Jacquot began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films, inclu ...
,
Chantal Akerman
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,
Lino Brocka,
Aki Kaurismäki
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, and
Wim Wenders
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.
At the start of the 1990s, Poupaud discovered the idea for ''Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge'' while watching her two sons, , aged 18 and
Melvil, aged 14. She believed that being a teenager was the same for all, despite different circumstances. She then invented the idea of a series of films on adolescence. Her series was broadcast in 1994 and received critical acclaim.
In the late 1990s, Poupaud experienced health problems, inspiring her to create a series based on "a heroine who finds herself facing a therapist after having found herself struggling with her body". She produced a series titled ''Toutes le femmes sont folles'' and the Jacquot-directed 1997 film ''
Seventh Heaven'', both based on this idea.
Chantal Poupaud died on 21 June 2022.
Filmography
Director
*''Maurice le mauricien'' (2000)
*''Crossdresser'' (2010)
Producer
*''Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge'' (1994)
*''Seventh Heaven'' (1997)
*''
Under the Sand
''Under the Sand'' (french: Sous le sable, ) is a 2000 French drama film directed and written by François Ozon. The film was nominated for three César Awards and was critically well received. It stars Charlotte Rampling and Bruno Cremer.
Cast ...
'' (2000)
*''Crossdresser'' (2010)
Screenwriter
*' (2005)
References
External links
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20th-century births
2022 deaths
French women film directors
French women film producers
French women screenwriters
People from Maine-et-Loire