Chantal Poupaud

Chantal Poupaud
Born
Chantal Richard
Died21 June 2022
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Film producer, director, screenwriter
Children2

Chantal Poupaud (née Richard; died 21 June 2022) was a French film producer, director and screenwriter. After starting out as a press attachée, she was behind the 1990s Arte series Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge [fr].

Biography[edit]

Poupaud grew up in Brissac-Quincé in Maine-et-Loire.[1] She worked to promote the films of Marguerite Duras for seven years, as well as films directed by Benoît Jacquot, Chantal Akerman, Lino Brocka, Aki Kaurismäki, and Wim Wenders.[2]

At the start of the 1990s, Poupaud discovered the idea for Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge while watching her two sons, Yarol [fr], aged 18 and Melvil, aged 14. She believed that being a teenager was the same for all, despite different circumstances.[3] She then invented the idea of a series of films on adolescence.[4] Her series was broadcast in 1994 and received critical acclaim.

In the late 1990s, Poupaud experienced health problems, inspiring her to create a series based on "a heroine who finds herself facing a therapist after having found herself struggling with her body". She produced a series titled Toutes le femmes sont folles and the Jacquot-directed 1997 film Seventh Heaven, both based on this idea.[5]

Chantal Poupaud died on 21 June 2022.[6]

Filmography[edit]

Producer[edit]

  • Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge (1994)
  • Seventh Heaven (1997)
  • Under the Sand (2000)
  • Crossdresser (2010)

Director[edit]

  • Maurice le mauricien (2000)
  • Crossdresser (2010)

Screenwriter[edit]

  • Riviera (2005)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Beauvallet, Laurent (24 January 2011). "Melvil Poupaud, Angevin, comédien et musicien !". Ouest-France (in French). Rennes. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Chantal Poupaud". Canal+ (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  3. ^ Querel, Nathalie (17 November 1994). "Les ados de Chantal Poupaud". La Vie (in French). Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  4. ^ Maveyraud, Cécile (26 October 1994). "Les Années surboum". Télérama (in French).
  5. ^ Frodon, Jean Michel (18 December 1997). "" Toutes les femmes sont folles ", première". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Disparition de Chantal Poupaud". Le Film français (in French). 21 June 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.

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