André Téchiné

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-03-13 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Valence, Tarn-et-Garonne, France

André Téchiné

Biography

André Téchiné (born 13 March 1943) is a French screenwriter and film director. He has a long and distinguished career that places him among the most accomplished post-New Wave French film directors. Téchiné belongs to a second generation of French film critics associated with Cahiers du cinéma who followed François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard and others from criticism into filmmaking. He is noted for his elegant and emotionally charged films that often delve into the complexities of emotions and the human condition. One of Téchiné's trademarks is the lyrical examination of human relations in a sensitive but unsentimental way, a...

Acting

1973

The Mother and the Whore

as Café Les Deux Magots' Customer (uncredited)

1966

Brigitte et Brigitte

as Un cinéphile

2023

2010

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

as Self (archive footage)

Production

2023

Soul Mates

as Writer

1975

Aloïse

as Writer

1994

Wild Reeds

as Director

1985

Rendez-vous

as Director

2009

2009

2003

Strayed

as Director

2004

Changing Times

as Director

1975

2007

The Witnesses

as Director

2001

Far Away

as Director

1976

Barocco

as Director

1986

Scene of the Crime

as Screenplay

1986

1987

The Innocents

as Director

1991

I Don't Kiss

as Director

1996

Thieves

as Director

1993

2024

My New Friends

as Director

2011

Unforgivable

as Director

2011

Unforgivable

as Scenario Writer

1979

1979

The Bronte Sisters

as Screenplay

1981

Hotel America

as Director

1998

Alice and Martin

as Director

1998

1985

Rendez-vous

as Screenplay

1985

Rendez-vous

as Dialogue

1976

Barocco

as Writer

1991

I Don't Kiss

as Writer

2024

My New Friends

as Screenplay

2004

1993

1981

Hotel America

as Writer

2023

Soul Mates

as Director

1994

1994

2003

Strayed

as Screenplay

1996

Thieves

as Writer

1969

1997

Transatlantique

as Screenplay

1994

Wild Reeds

as Writer

2016

Being 17

as Director

1969

L'Amour fou

as Assistant Director

2016

Being 17

as Writer

2017

Golden Years

as Director

2017

Golden Years

as Writer

2007

The Witnesses

as Screenplay

2001

Beach Café

as Writer

1987

The Innocents

as Adaptation

1987

The Innocents

as Screenplay

1975

French Provincial

as Screenplay

1969

Paulina Is Leaving

as Screenplay

1968

The Idols

as Assistant Director

1983

Hughie

as Scientific Consultant

2019

2001

Far Away

as Writer

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