Vianey, Michel

(February 9, 1932, Paris, France - December 30, 2008, Blennes, Seine-et-Marne, France)

   He worked as a truck driver, dockworker, and bank clerk before drifting into journalism. Working for the weekly magazine L'Express, he went on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin / Maskulinum Femininum / UK and USA: Masculine Feminine (France / Sweden) in 1965 and wrote a book (1966 En attend­ant Godard, Editions Grasset) about the four or five months he spent with the Swiss director. Weary of journalism, he turned a screenwriter (1975 Lily aime-moi, Maurice Dugowson). The producer of the movie he wrote allowed him to direct his first film, a short. He was also a novelist (1960 L'Evidence du Printemps, Les Editeurs Français Réunis; Cortège, Julliard; Elegie pour Saxo, Julliard; 1968 La Tahison, Julliard; 1992 Deux, Editions Robert Laffont).

 Filmography

        ◘ Simon dans l'Autobus (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Un Type comme moi ne devrait pas mourir (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Plus ça va, moins ça va / Eroticos juegos de la burguesia (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France / Spain)

1981 ◘ Un Assassin qui passe (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

1983 ◘ Un Dimanche de Flic / Zwei Profis steigen aus / USA: A Cop's Sunday (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France / West Germany)

1985 ◘ Spécial Police (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ La Porte d'Or (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ A deux Pas du Paradis (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1995 ◘ Les Boeufs-Carottes (episodes "Fracture so­ciale", "La Manière forte")

1999 ◘ Le Matador