André Téchiné

André Téchiné (b. 1943, Valence d'Agen), a director who has made almost twenty films, studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He wrote for Cahiers du cinéma from the early 1960s and taught at the IDHEC in Paris from 1973. He already showed talent for psychological narration in his debut Paulina Is Leaving (1969), focused on heroes in conflicting and crisis situations. Téchiné also has a sense for the suggestive evocation of period atmosphere, whether his depiction is set in the past, as in the film The Brontë Sisters (1979), or in the family chronicle from the years 1930–60, reflecting the marked social upheavals of this era, French Provincial (1975), or in the present, e.g. in the film Hotel America (1981) and Don't Kiss (1991) a raw tale of a young man from the provinces who faces tough experiences after his arrival in Paris. This film was screened in competition at the KV IFF in 1992.

MFF Karlovy Vary