Claude Miller

Known for DirectingBorn 1942-02-20Died 2012-04-04Paris, France

Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and La meilleure façon de marcher (The Best Way to Walk, 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) and The 400 Blows (1959). Miller received César nominations for Best Director and César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the same production personnel. The following year he made Dites-lui que je l'aime, for which he received a second César nomination for Best Director. He won a César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation in 1981 for Garde à vue, and the Louis Delluc Prize in 1985 for L'Effrontée, for which he received another César nomination for Best Director. In 1983 he directed Mortelle randonnée. When Truffaut died in 1984 during the preparation of another feature about a confused, adolescent serial thief entangled with an older lover, La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief), Miller took over the project, completing the film in 1988. The latter film was a considerable international success, and solidified Miller's status as one of France's major film-makers. On French television, Miller directed dozens of commercials and the six-part miniseries Traits de Mémoire (1976). After a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist (1992) and Le Sourire (1994). He had to wait until 1998 for his next major success: La Classe de Neige, the chilling story of a lonely boy on a school skiing holiday, which won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Later films Miller directed include Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001) which Peter Bradshaw wrote that Miller "endowed it with the fascination of an exotic, spiky, poisonous flower", La Petite Lili (2003), and A Secret (2007). At the time of his death he was working on an adaptation of François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux. The film was selected to close the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Spécial cinéma

Lino Ventura, la part intime

Day for Night

La Question ordinaire

The Young Girls of Rochefort

The Inquisitor

Au Hasard Balthazar

The Accompanist

Bed and Board

The Wild Child

Juliet in Paris

Two English Girls

The Story of Adèle H.

La Chinoise

Champs-Elysées

Weekend

A Secret

Les Enfants de Lumière

Tell Her That I Love Her

An Impudent Girl

Mississippi Mermaid

Lumière & Company

The Best Way to Walk

Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy

Betty Fisher and Other Stories

Under Suspicion

The Little Thief

Soldier Martin

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive

Deadly Circuit

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

Of Woman and Magic

Thérèse

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

The Devil by the Tail

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Class Trip

Little Lili

The Sunday of Life

La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre

Heat of Desire

Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head

Le Sourire

Fantasia Among the Squares

Vent de panique

Like a Turtle on Its Back

A Perfect Friend

The Probability Factor