Yves Boisset Biography
Yves Boisset (1939 - ) Trained at IDHEC, Yves Boisset was, between 1959 and 1966, assistant director to famous directors such as Yves Ciampi (Who are you, Mr. Sorge?), Sergio Leone (The Colossus of Rhodes), Jean-Pierre Melville, Claude Sautet or René Clément (Is Paris Burning?). The director specializes in works inspired by real events. Highlighted by L'Attentat (1972), which tells the story of the Ben Barka affair, it was awarded in Moscow for its staging. With RAS (1973), the director takes an interest in the Algerian war. A committed filmmaker, Yves Boisset develops his cinematographic projects in particularly strong socio-political contexts. With Dupont Lajoie, played by Jean Carmet in 1974, he thus condemns racism in a shocking work whose title will even become an expression of everyday language. In 1977, the director hired Patrick Dewaere for Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff, a political thriller in which a judge investigates, despite the pressure he is subjected to, a case involving high-ranking figures. The same year, Yves Boisset welcomes Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Noiret, Agostina Belli and Peter Ustinov aboard his Mauve Taxi, a drama that tells his story in Ireland. After La Clé sur la porte (1978) again with Patrick Dewaere, then the policemen, La Femme cop (1980) starring Miou-Miou and Espion, lève-toi (1982), the director made a portrait of television games with his film The Price of Danger in 1983. No longer on television since the 1980s (Le Suspect, L'Affaire Seznec, L'Affaire Dreyfus, Le Pantalon, Jean Moulin, L'Affaire Salengro), Yves Boisset will then sign on to the cinema in 1984 the thriller Heatwave with Lee Marvin, he denounced fascism with Radio Corbeau in 1989, and he criticized the medical community in La Tribu, his last film on the big screen.
