Joel Seria Biography
Joel Séria is a French director, born in Angers in 1936. His first feature film, entitled "But do not deliver us from evil" and starring Jeanne Goupil and Catherine Wagener, was released in cinemas in 1970, despite having been initially banned. This film, however, soon acquired the status of a cult film. One of Séria's most famous works is undoubtedly "Les Galettes de Pont-Aven", a work that immortalises the life of the picturesque inhabitants of this city, played by Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bernard Fresson, Andréa Ferréol and Dominique Lavanant. This last film, due to its great resonance, has somehow hidden the rest of the director's work from the general public. In 1981, Séria produced an adaptation of the crime series "San-Antonio", entitled "San-Antonio only thinks of that", with Philippe Gasté in the lead role. Since the end of the 1980s, Séria has dedicated himself above all to television directing, creating various episodes of the well-known series Nestor Burma and Black. In 1987, the director reunited Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean Carmet in the film "Les Deux Crocodiles", a road movie set between Saumur and Quimper. In 2014, Séria was included in the film anthology "Cinématon", edited by Gérard Courant, where it appears as number 2825 of the collection. In 2018, the Cinémathèque française organized a retrospective in his honor.
