Flèche, Manuel

(July 16, 1958, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France - )

   The grandson of a projectionist and a self-taught man, he began shooting shorts while working as a first assistant director (1985 Le Meilleur de la Vie / UK festival: A Better Life, also actor, Renaud Victor; 1986 Double Messieurs, also actor, Jean-François Stévenin; 1987Jeux d'Artifices, VirginieThévenet; 1989 Embrasse-moi, Michèle Rosier; Zanzibar, Christine Pascal, France / Switzerland; 1992 Le Petit Prince a dit, Christine Pas­cal, France / Switzerland; 1993 La Naissance de l'Amour / UK and USA: The Birth of Love, Philippe Garrel; 1996 Mossane, Safi Faye, Senegal / West Germany). Other credits (as actor): 1991 Rossignol de mes Amours (short, Christian Merret-Palmair); 2001 Strange Inno­cence / USA: Wild Innocence (Philippe Garrel, France / Netherlands).

 Filmography

        ◘ Au Bout de la Loi, ou Les Ouvreuses meurent aussi (short; also screenwriter, dialogist, editor)

        ◘ Il y a Femme et Femme (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1986 ◘ Courtes Chasses (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1988 ◘ Une Femme pour l'Hiver (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1991 ◘ La Malheureuse (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1993 ◘ Nuit d'Essence (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Parano (co-director with Anita Assal, John Hudson, Yann Piquer, and Alain Robak; segment "Nuit d'Essence")

        ◘ Marie-Louise ou La Permission (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ La Femme noyée (short; also screenwriter)

2000 ◘ Korsakov (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)