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… (more)