René Féret
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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Movies (30)
Anton Tchekhov 1890
2015 · Director, Screenplay
Le Prochain film
2013 · Director, Writer
Madame Solario
2012 · Director, Producer
Mozart's Sister
2010 · Director, Writer
Like a Star Shining in the Night
2008 · Marc and Eric's chef (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
Il a suffi que maman s'en aille…
2007 · Director
L'Enfant du pays
2003 · Pierre Merveille, Director, Writer
Rue du retrait
2001 · Director, Writer
East/West
1999 · Ambassadeur de France
Destiny
1997 · Producer
Les frères Gravet
1996 · Director
Discussion sur le préservatif entre un père et son fils
1994
Couchettes express
1994 · Le médecin
The Place of Another
1993 · Director, Writer
Summer Strolls
1992 · Director, Dialogue, Screenplay, Producer
Baptême
1989 · Writer, Director
Savannah
1988 · Fabien
L'Homme qui n'était pas là
1987 · Charles, Director, Screenplay
The Mystery of Alexina
1985 · Director, Screenplay
Side Roads
1983 · Producer
Idylle
1983 · Producer
Sarah
1983 · Duparc, producer
Last Summer
1981 · Producer
The Prodigal Daughter
1981 · Le mari
Fernand
1980 · Director, Delegated Producer, Scenario Writer
Solemn Communion
1977 · Julien Gravet I, Director, Writer, Producer
I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…
1976 · Delegated Producer
Lumière
1976 · Julien
The Story of Paul
1975 · Director, Screenplay
Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous
1975 · Marc, the shy colleague
