Career
He spent his childhood in Toulon. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war. His cinema takes as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone.
His best-known films are arguably Rosa la rose and Encore.
His films are notably low-budget. In 1987, he became the first director to link Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome to homosexuality in a French film with his film Encore.