Guy Gilles

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Guy Gilles born Guy Chiche (25 August 1938 - 3 February 1996) was a French film director. His first feature film, L'Amour à la mer (1962), starred Juliette Greco, Romy Schneider and Jean-Pierre Léaud. Patrick Jouan featured in many of his films. He also worked for television with productions such as Dim, Dam, Dom and Pour le plaisir. His latest films include Le Crime d'amour (1982), with Richard Berry and Jacques Penot, and Nuit docile (1987). He caught AIDS in the late 1980s, and in experiencing difficulties with production, he struggled to complete Néfertiti, la fille du soleil in 1994 which was released in 1996 on the year of death.

Most Popular Guy Gilles Trailers

Total trailers found: 49

The Seven Deadly Sins Trailer (1962)

07 March 1962

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war.

Repeated Absences Trailer (1972)

01 November 1972

François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.

Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt.

Docile Night Trailer (1987)

25 November 1987

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations.

Wall Engravings Trailer (1968)

07 February 1968

Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart.

The Army Game Trailer (1960)

25 November 1960

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few �

La Loterie de la vie Trailer (1977)

30 July 1977

The real museum of Mexico City is the city, the street. To grasp the intangible, Guy Gilles decides to tell the story of Mexico by questioning the value of images and sounds, far from tourist clichés.

La Vie filmée Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946 and 1953.

What a Flash! Trailer (1972)

03 October 1972

The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live.

Un dimanche à Aurillac Trailer (1967)

04 April 1967

A day in Aurillac on a rainy Sunday.

The Garden That Tilts Trailer (1975)

14 May 1975

Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her.

Où sont-elles donc ? Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

Le Défilé Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

Marchers in an Indepence Day celebration in Mexico are transformed into tiny soldiers, tiny articulated automatons, turning a serious event into childlike playfulness.

Le Crime d'amour Trailer (1982)

24 November 1982

To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.

Festivals 66 Cinéma 67 Trailer (1967)

30 May 1967

L’Indiscret Trailer (1974)

16 September 1974

Study of the passengers of a steamship during a Mediterranean cruise. (uniFrance)

Village Sweetness Trailer (1964)

01 May 1964

Documentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher.

Poèmes électriques Trailer (1979)

09 September 1979

A film by Guy Gilles

Diary of a Fight Trailer (1964)

04 April 1964

The creation of a painting by Francis Savel (aka Dietrich de Velsa, director of Équation à un inconnu) in his studio in Montmartre: the white canvas, the tests in charcoal, the drawing, the arrival of color.

Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas Trailer (1993)

10 September 1993

A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, Chenoua, Tipasa, Oran, Constantine, Candle , the Kabylie, the light, the noises, the music, the events, the last hopes.

Proust, l'art et la douleur Trailer (1971)

17 June 1971

From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary language with fiction, embodied in the figure of a visitor in search of the places and faces that Proust loved, from the Illiers-Combray of his childhood to the longed-for Venice that he never got to know.

The Theatre of the Matters Trailer (1977)

07 December 1977

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.

Nefertiti [Alternate version] Trailer (1995)

01 February 1995

the movie's intended runtime was 100 minutes but there was bad business with the Italian producer. Cinecitta kidnapped some film rolls until the French paid their share of this Latvia/France/Italy co-production but the French producer went bankrupt in the meantime.

Alexeï Guerman, cinéaste bien interdit Trailer (1990)

01 October 1990

Le Partant Trailer (1969)

04 April 1969

In the Saint-Lazare metro and station, a young man dreams of getting away from the dullness and everyday life.

À la mémoire du rock Trailer (1963)

01 January 1963

The rock-wild youth of the 1960s during the apparitions of their idols.

Earth Light Trailer (1970)

18 November 1970

The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.

The Bevel of Kisses Trailer (1959)

04 April 1959

Algiers, summer, a Sunday. A young loving couple goes to Tipaza: strolls on the beach, detour to the dancing, scooter rides.

Ciné bijou Trailer (1965)

10 November 1965

Vie retrouvée Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

A young man finds in an old abandoned farmhouse in Vans in Ardèche some fifty letters and a notebook forgotten there.

The Little Café Trailer (1963)

02 January 1963

A day in a little café of Paris.

Pop Age Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (long hair and accoutrements) and modernity, youth, change, freedom.

Chanson de gestes Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective.

Les Cafés de Paris Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète Trailer (1975)

07 July 1975

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

Love at Sea Trailer (1965)

01 May 1965

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part.

Acéphale Trailer (1968)

07 October 1968

An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.

13 Days in France Trailer (1968)

27 September 1968

This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events made international celebrities of skater Peggy Fleming and skier Jean-Claude Killy for their gold-medal performances.

L'Envers des choses Trailer (1983)

18 May 1983

A verlan discussion in a cafe between two young people about a motorbike and girls.

Paris, A Winter's Day Trailer (1962)

01 January 1962

Guy Gilles' 1962 short on the wintertime in Paris.

Le Jardin des Tuileries Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

Côté cour, côté champs Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

Lust Trailer (1962)

07 March 1962

This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.

Jeanne raconte Jeanne Trailer (1970)

25 August 1970

It was while going to film Jeanne Moreau in the summer of 1970 in her house at Garde Freinet that Guy Gilles fell in love with her.

Montreur d'images Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Un garçon de France Trailer (1985)

06 June 1985

The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.

Melancholia Trailer (1961)

01 January 1961

The title sums up the mood of this elegant short film in which a woman recalls her life, locked up for 30 years in the courtyard of a building where a young man with whom she was hopelessly in love had lived.

Nelson Pereira dos Santos - Portrait sentimental d'un cinéaste brésilien Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

Documentary

Soleil éteint Trailer (1958)

01 January 1958