René Féret
Director
Biography
René Féret (26 May 1945 – 28 April 2015) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and producer.
His film Solemn Communion, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. In The Man Who Wasn't There (L'Homme qui n'était pas là), his 1987 film adaption of Roderick MacLeish's novel, he played alongside Claude Jade in the leading role of Charles Elaine.
Very much an independent creator, Féret made several films around an invented family living in northern France, the Gravets, but based on his own life experience. He often used members of his own family in his films.
Féret also turned to marginal individuals, in trouble: a man sent to a psychiatric hospital in Histoire de Paul (1975), a hermaphrodite in Mystère Alexina, old age in Rue du Retrait (2000) and cancer sufferers in Comme une étoile dans la nuit (2009).
Later in his career he turned his attention to historical artistic figures (Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart, 2010), Anton Tchékhov 1890 (2015). He work was described as “subtle and possessing great sensibility”.
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Filmography
East/West
as Ambassadeur de France 1999
The Prodigal Daughter
as Le mari 1981
Lumière
as Julien 1976
Like a Star Shining in the Night
as Marc and Eric's chef (uncredited) 2008
Solemn Communion
as Julien Gravet I 1977
L'Enfant du pays
as Pierre Merveille 2003
Sarah
as Duparc, producer 1983
Rue du retrait
2001
Savannah
as Fabien 1988
Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous
as Marc, the shy colleague 1975
L'homme qui n'était pas là
as Charles 1987
Couchettes express
as Le médecin 1994