Frot-Coutaz, Gérard

(September 18, 1951, Chalons-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, France - March 12, 1992, Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France)

   A former film critic at Cinéma, he entered films as an assistant director (1975 Mort d'un Guide, Jacques Er-taud; 1976 Barocco, André Téchiné; 1977 Les Apprentis Sorciers, Edgardo Cozarinsky; Le Théâtre des Matières, Jean-Claude Biette; La Machine, also actor, Paul Vec-chiali; 1978 Un Second Souffle, Gérard Blain; 1979 Corps à Corps / USA: Drugstore Romance, Paul Vecchiali; 1979 Les Belles Manières, also co-dialogist, Jean-Claude Guiguet; 1980 Simone Barbès ou la Vertu, Marie-Claude Treilhou; L'Honorable Société, Anielle Weinberger, shot in 1977; 1981 C'est la Vie!, Paul Vecchiali; 1982 Le Crime d'Amour, Guy Gilles). He co-wrote the screenplay and the dialogue of La Campagne de Cicéron (Jacques Davila, 1990, shot in 1988).

 Filmography

1974 ◘ Derniers Remparts (short; also screenwriter)

1976 ◘ Transcontinental (short; also screenwriter)

1983 ◘ L'Archipel des Amours (segment "Le Goûter de Josette"; also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Le Tiers provisionnel (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Beau Temps mais orageux en Fin de Journée / USA: Good Weather, but Stormy Late This After­noon (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Rose ou L'Ivraie en Famille (documentary)

        ◘ Après Après-Demain (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Contre l'Oubli / Ecrire contre l'Oubli / Against Oblivion / Lest We Forget (documentary; segment "Pour Wang Xizhe, Chine")

        ◘ Peinture fraîche (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ 1992Bouvet et son Texte (short; also screenwriter)