Jean Paul Civeyrac Director
Filmography Selected
Born in 1964, Jean Paul Civeyrac graduated in philosophy from the University of Lyon before studying film at La Femis in Paris. La vie selon Luc (1991), the short feature he made there, was selected in competition at Cannes. In 1996, he shot his debut feature, Neither Eve nor Adam followed by Les Solitaires, Fantomes and Man’s Gentle Love. All The Fine Promises won the Jean Vigo Prize in 2003. His other credits include Through the forest, Young Girls in Black, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2010, and My Friend Victoria in 2014.
Alongside his work as a filmmaker, Civeyrac has taught at La Femis, Paris VIII University and Cours Florent drama school. In 2014, De l’incidence Editeur published Ecrit entre les jours, a collection of texts devoted to cinema and music, and in 2017 P.O.L. published an essay on filmmaking, Rose pourquoi.
2017 A Paris Education
2014 My Friend Victoria
2012 Fairy Queen
2010 Young Girls in Black
2006 Ma Belle Rebelle et mon Prince Charmant
2005 Through the Forest
2003 All the Fine Promises
2002 Man’s Gentle Love
2001 Fantômes
2000 Les Solitaires
1997 Eve Nor Adam
1991 La Vie Selon Luc
“A wonderfully anachronistic homage to a timeless, New Wave-style world filled with cinephiles, lovers, and great films. It's a universe as self-centered as it is endlessly fascinating.”
Leonardo Goi, The Film Stage
“Jean-Paul Civeyrac offers a splendid piece of fiction, full of scope, charm and mastery, with some excellent performances from young actors.”
Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa
“There's a conviction to the storytelling that can't be denied, and no matter what your tastes are it's hard not to be moved by Etienne's struggle to find his voice amid so much doubt and disillusion.
Brings to mind how some of the best French movies — especially those of the New Wave — are marked by both an intense love of film and the fiery passions of youth."
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
“Oh, to be young, intense, romantic and profoundly cinephilic – Jean Paul Civeyrac’s drama captures it all, in a story of a filmmaker’s years of apprenticeship.”
Jonathan Romney, London Film Festival
“Shot in ravishing black-and-white by Pierre-Hubert Martin, A Paris Education feels very much like La Maman et la Putain by Eustache transported into contemporary times.”
Meredith Taylor, Filmuforia