Claude Miller

Directing·Feb 20, 1942·Paris, France

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Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and La meilleure façon de marcher (The Best Way to Walk, 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) and The 400 Blows (1959). Miller received César nominations for Best Director and César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the same production personnel. The following year he made Dites-lui que je l'aime, for which he received a second César nomination for Best Director. He won a César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation in 1981 for Garde à vue, and the Louis Delluc Prize in 1985 for L'Effrontée, for which he received another César nomination for Best Director. In 1983 he directed Mortelle randonnée. When Truffaut died in 1984 during the preparation of another feature about a confused, adolescent serial thief entangled with an older lover, La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief), Miller took over the project, completing the film in 1988. The latter film was a considerable international success, and solidified Miller's status as one of France's major film-makers. On French television, Miller directed dozens of commercials and the six-part miniseries Traits de Mémoire (1976). After a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist (1992) and Le Sourire (1994). He had to wait until 1998 for his next major success: La Classe de Neige, the chilling story of a lonely boy on a school skiing holiday, which won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Later films Miller directed include Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001) which Peter Bradshaw wrote that Miller "endowed it with the fascination of an exotic, spiky, poisonous flower", La Petite Lili (2003), and A Secret (2007). At the time of his death he was working on an adaptation of François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux. The film was selected to close the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
Lino Ventura, la part intime2018 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Success Story2016 · Himself	Himself
Thérèse2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
See How They Dance2011 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Marching Band2009 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
A Secret2007 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Perfect Friend2006 · le professeur André Barth	le professeur André Barth
La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre2005 · Claude Miller	Claude Miller
Little Lili2003 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Betty Fisher and Other Stories2001 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Of Woman and Magic2000 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Class Trip1998 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Lumière & Company1995 · Director	Director
Les Enfants de Lumière1995 · Director	Director
Le Sourire1994 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Accompanist1992 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head1991 · Producer	Producer
The Little Thief1988 · Producer, Director, Screenplay	Producer, Director, Screenplay
An Impudent Girl1985 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Deadly Circuit1983 · Director	Director
The Inquisitor1981 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Heat of Desire1981 · Un monsieur du wagon lit, Le voyageur dans les couchettes (uncredited), Writer	Un monsieur du wagon lit, Le voyageur dans les couchettes (uncredited), Writer
Like a Turtle on Its Back1978 · Pierre, Writer	Pierre, Writer
This Sweet Sickness1977 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Probability Factor1976 · Member of the board of directors	Member of the board of directors
The Best Way to Walk1976 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Day for Night1973 · Hotel Client (uncredited)	Hotel Client (uncredited)
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy1971 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Wild Child1970 · Monsieur Lemeri	Monsieur Lemeri
La Question ordinaire1969 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her1967 · Bouvard	Bouvard
Juliet in Paris1967 · Director	Director