Guy Gilles
1938 - 1996His first feature film, L'Amour à la mer (1962), starred Juliette Greco, Romy Schneider and Jean-Pierre Léaud. Patrick Jouan featured in many of his films. He also worked for television with productions such as Dim, Dam, Dom and Pour le plaisir.
His latest films include Le Crime d'amour (1982), with Richard Berry and Jacques Penot, and Nuit docile (1987). He caught AIDS in the late 1980s, and in experiencing difficulties with production, he struggled to complete Néfertiti, la fille du soleil in 1994 which was released in 1996 on the year of death.
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La Loterie de la vie
Guy Gilles
Anouk Ferjac, Guy Gilles
The real museum of Mexico City is the city, the street. To grasp the intangible, Guy Gilles decides to tell the story of Mexico by questioning the value of images and sounds, far from tourist clichés. The nightlife of Mexico City, his meeting with young Lupe, the hotel’s lifiter.
La Loterie de la vie
Love at Sea
Guy Gilles
Daniel Moosmann, Geneviève Thénier
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...
Love at Sea
Le Journal d'un combat
Guy Gilles
Frantz Salieri, Alain Delon
The creation of a painting by Francis Savel (aka Dietrich de Velsa, director of Équation à un inconnu) in his studio in Montmartre: the white canvas, the tests in charcoal, the drawing, the arrival of color. Outside it is winter.
Diary of a Fight
Earth Light
Guy Gilles
Patrick Jouané, Edwige Feuillère
The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.
Earth Light
Dis Papa, raconte-moi là-bas
Guy Gilles
Richard Berry, Jean Marais
A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, Chenoua, Tipasa, Oran, Constantine, Candle , the Kabylie, the light, the noises, the music, the events, the last hopes.
Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas
Nuit docile
Guy Gilles
Patrick Jouané, Claire Nebout
Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.
Docile Night
