Paul Vecchiali (born April 28 1930 in Ajaccio, Corsica, France) is a French author and filmmaker.

Biography

He spent his childhood in Toulon . His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war .

His cinema takes as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone . His best-known films are arguably Rosa la rose and Encore. His films are notably low-budget.

In 1987, he became the first director to link AIDS to homosexuality with his film Encore .

Filmography

• At the Top of the Stairs (1983)
• Rosa la rose, fille publique (1985)
• Encore / Once More (1988)
• The Guys in the Cafe (1989)
• Wonder Boy (1994)
• Zone Franche (1996)
• Love Reinvented (1997)
• Tears of AIDS (1999)
• A Vot' Bon Coer (2004)
• A Diagonal Portrait of Paul Vecchiali (2005)

Bibliography

• Vesperales (2008)

References

1. Romain Charbon, 'Vesperales', in Têtu, October 2008, issue 137, page 32
2. Brigitte Rollet and James S. Williams, 'Visions of Excess: Filming/Writing the Gay Self in Collard's Savage Nights, in Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995, ed. Owen Heathcote, Alex Hughes, James S. Williams, Berg Publishers, 1998, page 195 [1]

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