Lopes Curval, Philippe

(June 9, 1951, Bayeux, Calvados, France - )

   A second assistant director (1974 Stavisky . . . / Stavisky, il grande truffatore, Alain Resnais, France / Italy; 1975 L'Important c'est d'aimer / L'importante è amare / Nachtblende / UK: The Main Thing Is to Love / USA: The Most Important Thing: Love, Andrzej Zulawski, France / Italy / West Germany; 1976 Néa / Nea-Ein Madchen entdeckt die Liebe / UK: A Young Emmanuelle, Nelly Ka­plan, France / West Germany) and then first assistant director (1978 Sale Rêveur, Jean-Marie Périer; Le Su­cre, Jacques Rouffio; 1977 Violette et François, Jacques Rouffio; 1979 Ils sont grands ces Petits, Joël Santoni; I comme Icare, Henri Verneuil; 1981 Rends-moi la Clé!, Gérard Pires), he had a brief career as a filmmaker before dedicating himself to screenwriting (1991 Une Epoque formidable, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Gérard Jugnot; 1994 Casque bleu, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Gérard Jugnot; 1996 Fallait pas! . . . / Caiga quiencaiga, manana me caso, as co-screenwriter, di-alogist, Gérard Jugnot, France / Spain; 2002 Monsieur Batignole, as co-screenwriter, dialogist; Gérard Jugnot; Les Choristes / Die Kinder des Monsieur Mathieu / USA: The Chorus, as co-screenwriter, dialogist, Chris­tophe Barratier, France / Switzerland / Germany; Boudu, as screenwriter, dialogist, Gérard Jugnot) and TV screenwriting (1996 Adorable petite Bombe, Philippe Muyl; Les Amours de Rivière rouge, 2 X 90', Yves Boisset; 1997 Le Surdoué, 2 X 90', Alain Bonnot; Maintenant ou jamais, Jérôme Foulon; 1998 Maintenant pour toujours, Daniel Vigne, Joël Santoni).

 Filmography

        ◘ Rohner (documentary; short)

        ◘ Baby Come Back (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Drapeau tricolore en bleu, blanc, rouge (documentary; short)

1986 ◘ Trop tard Bathazar (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)