Paul Vecchiali (28 April 1930 – 18 January 2023) was a French filmmaker and author.
Biography
Vecchiali was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. He spent his childhood in Toulon[citation needed]. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war[citation needed].
His cinema took as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone[citation needed]. His best-known films are arguably Rosa la rose and Encore.[1] His films were notably low-budget.[1]
In 1987, he became the first director to link AIDS to homosexuality in a French film with his film Encore.[2]
Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, at the age of 92.[3]
^ abRomain Charbon, 'Vesperales', in Têtu, October 2008, issue 137, page 32
^Brigitte Rollet and James S. Williams, 'Visions of Excess: Filming/Writing the Gay Self in Collard's Savage Nights, in Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995, ed. Owen Heathcote, Alex Hughes, James S. Williams, Berg Publishers, 1998, page 195 [1]
