JeanCharles Tacchella born 23 September 1925 is a French screenwriter and film director He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Cousin Cousine 1975 which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and which was later 1989 remade in a US version starring Ted Danson and titled Cousins JeanCharles Tacchella studied in Marseilles and just after the Liberation left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director He joined Lécran Français when he was nineteen where he worked with Renoir Becker and Grémillon While with the magazine he wrote about filmmakers actors films and met André Bazin Nino Frank Roger Leenhardt Roger Thérond and Alexandre Astruc He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim Anna Magnani Vittorio de Sica and created the monthly Ciné Digest with Henri Colpi In 1948 Tacchella along with Bazin Jacques DoniolValcroze Astruc Claude Mauriac René Clément and Pierre Kast established Objectif 49 an avantgarde film club whose president was Jean Cocteau Objectif 49 became the birthplace of the New Wave JeanCharles Tacchella has since directed eleven features many of which have had successful international careers and been awarded prestigious prizes They include Voyage to Grand Tartarie 1974 Cousin cousine 1975 nominated for the Oscars Césars Silver Shell for Best Director at the 1976 San Sebastian International Film Festival Le Pays bleu 1977 Its a Long Time Ive Loved You 1979 Jury Prize at the Montreal Film Festival Croque la vie 1981 Staircase C 1985 Prix de lAcadémie française Grand Prix at the Uppsala Film Festival Travelling avant 1987 Best Male Newcomer for Thierry Frémont Golden Tulip for Best Director at the Istanbul Film Festival Gallant Ladies Best Director Digne Film Festival 1990 The Man of My Life 1992 Seven Sundays 1995 Tacchella is described as being a smooth technician Tacchellas camera work is fluid and precise And his movie Traveling avant 1987 roughly equivalent to the American film term Tracking Shot is described as a semiautobiographical paean to his youth as a cinema fanatic and cineclub enthusiast in postwar Paris Tacchella was President of the Cinémathèque Française from 20002003 Source Article JeanCharles Tacchella from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30
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