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André Téchiné
Writer 83 years old

André Téchiné

Valence, Tarn-et-Garonne, France

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... Read full bio →

Filmography

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17 titles
Quand on a 17 ans

Quand on a 17 ans

André Téchiné 2016 1h 56m

When his mother takes in a bully whose own mother is ill, the son of a soldier must learn to live with the boy who terrorized him.

L'homme qu'on aimait trop

L'homme qu'on aimait trop

André Téchiné 2014 2h 2m

In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.

La fille du RER

La fille du RER

André Téchiné 2009 1h 45m

Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe.

Les témoins

Les témoins

André Téchiné 2007 1h 52m 5.7

Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.

Les temps qui changent

Les temps qui changent

André Téchiné 2004 1h 30m

In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.

Les égarés

Les égarés

André Téchiné 2003 1h 35m

Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager.

Alice et Martin

Alice et Martin

André Téchiné 1998 2h 4m

A young man starts an affair with a woman - his brother's friend. Their relations are being tested because of obscure secrets hidden in the past.

Les voleurs

Les voleurs

André Téchiné 1996 1h 57m

In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his young son.

Les roseaux sauvages

Les roseaux sauvages

André Téchiné 1994 1h 55m 8.0

As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.

Ma saison préférée

Ma saison préférée

André Téchiné 1993 2h 7m

Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.

J'embrasse pas

J'embrasse pas

André Téchiné 1991 1h 55m

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.

Les innocents

Les innocents

André Téchiné 1987 1h 36m

A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.

Le lieu du crime

Le lieu du crime

André Téchiné 1986 1h 30m 3.0

In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance, the murderer and the boy's mother form an alliance.

Rendez-vous

Rendez-vous

André Téchiné 1985 1h 22m 6.0

Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.

Hôtel des Amériques

Hôtel des Amériques

André Téchiné 1981 1h 35m

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up.

Les soeurs Brontë

Les soeurs Brontë

André Téchiné 1979 2h 6.0

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Barocco

Barocco

André Téchiné 1976 1h 50m 5.0

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

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