Trivia

President of the jury at the entrance examination of La Fémis (France's national film school) in 1986.

French editor and director, trained at the French cinema school IDHEC. Later taught editing techniques at the National Higher Institute of the Performing Arts in Brussels.

Ten reels of an unreleased silent film by Andre Antoine, L,Hirondelle et La Mesange, which had been stored by the French Cinematheque, were edited into a projectable version by Colpi for showing in 1983.

Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence, which is well known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel.

He edited André Antoine's forgotten film L'Hirondelle et la Mésange (The Swallow and the Titmouse) to a 79-minute feature that premiered in 1984. Antoine initially shot six hours of footage.

In addition to directing, editing, acting, sound recording, and a variety of functions in the post-War years, he was featured in a French television series, L'Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (The History of French Cinema By Those Who Made It) in 1974, and he continued to work into the 1990s.

During 1950 to 1960, he edited films for such notable French New Wave directors as Agnès Varda and Georges Franju.

Colpi is also noted as a film editor with about 20 credits, including Alain Resnais' films Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961).

His movie "Une aussi longue absence" was written by Marguerite Duras, featured Alida Valli in a major role, and included music by Georges Delerue. It won the Louis Delluc Prize in 1960.

Colpi graduated from the IDHEC ( = "Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies) in 1947.