Delouche, Dominique

(April 9, 1931, Paris, France - )

   Having trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he became a painter. His knowledge of music (he is a pianist) and his taste for dancing provided him the material for most of the movies he directed. A film critic in the 1950s, he also was first assistant director to Federico Fellini (1955 Il Bidone / UK: The Swindlers / USA: The Swindle, Italy; 1957 Le notti di Cabiria / Les Nuits de Cabiria / UK: Cabiria / USA: Nights of Cabiria, also assistant producer, actor, Italy / France; 1960 La Dolce Vita / La Douceur de vivre / UK: The Sweet Life, Italy / France) and occasionally costume designer and set decorator (1979 Le Triomphe de l'Amour, TV, Ed­ouard Logereau) and actor (1980 Le Voyage en Douce / USA: Sentimental Journey, Michel Deville). In 1956, he published a book on the shooting of Fellini's Il Bidone (Le Journal d'un Bidoniste, Editions du Cerf). He also wrote an essay on dancing (2004 Corps glorieux, La Renaissance du Livre).

 Filmography

        ◘ Béatrice, la Servante folle (short; also screenwriter, dialogist; shot in 1957)

        ◘ Le Spectre de la Danse (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Métamorphose du Violoncelle (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Edith Stein (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Messe sur le Monde de Teilhard de Chardin (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'Adage (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Mime Marceau (documentary; short)

1965 ◘ Aquarelle (short)

        ◘ Dina chez les Rois (short)

        ◘ Avec Claude Monet (short)

        ◘ But (short; also screenwriter, cinematographer)

        ◘ Vingt-quatre Heures de la Vie d'une Femme / 24 Studen im Leben einer Frau (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / West Germany; shot in 1967)

1971 ◘ L'Homme de Désir (shot in 1969)

        ◘ La Mort du jeune Poète (short)

        ◘ Divine

        ◘ Aurore (short)

        ◘ Pas à Pas (short)

        ◘ Autour de la Sylphide (short)

        ◘ La Dame de Monte-Carlo (short)

        ◘ Leçon de Ténèbres (short)

        ◘ Pe Spectre de la Danse (documentary)

        ◘ Une Etoile pour l'Exemple (documentary; seven shorts:"Chauviré", "Guillem", "Maurin", "Khal-founi", "Guérin", "Pietragalla", "Loudières")

        ◘ Katia et Volodia (documentary; also editor)

        ◘ Denise Duval revisitée ou La Voix retrouvée (video documentary)

        ◘ Alicia Markova (video documentary)

1992 ◘ Comme les Oiseaux (documentary)

1995 ◘ Les Cahiers retrouvés de Nina Vyrouba

        ◘ Serge Peretti, le dernier Italien (documentary)

        ◘ Irène Aïtoff, la grande Mademoiselle (video documentary)

        ◘ Maïa (also producer)

        ◘ Violette et Mister B (documentary)

        ◘ Alicia Markova, la Légende (documentary)

2005 ◘ Serge Lifar Musagète (documentary; also producer)

 Television Filmography

1970 ◘ La Voix humaine

1973 ◘ Opéra pour Baudelaire

1976 ◘ Pygmalion

        ◘ Dido et Aeneas

1978 ◘ Le Roi malgré lui

1979 ◘ Le Petit Théâtre d'Antenne 2 (episode "Les Achats de Noël")

1982 ◘ L'Art sous Napoléon III

1984 ◘ Chagrins d'Amour