Anecdotes

Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Marie-Christine Barrault in Cousin cousine (1975).

Joined L'écran Français when he was nineteen, where he worked with Jean Renoir, Becker, and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, actors, films and met André Bazin, Nino Frank, Roger Leenhardt, Roger Thérond, and Alexandre Astruc. He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim, Anna Magnani and Vittorio de Sica.

Was President of the Cinémathèque Française from 2000-2003.

In 1948, Tacchella, along with Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Astruc, Claude Mauriac, René Clément, and Pierre Kast, established Objectif 49, an avant-garde film club whose president was Jean Cocteau. Objectif 49 became the birthplace of the New Wave cinema.

Created the monthly "Ciné Digest" with Henri Colpi.

Jean-Charles Tacchella was a French screenwriter and film director.

His movie Traveling avant (1987) is described as "a semi-autobiographical paean to his youth as a cinema fanatic and cine-club enthusiast in post-war Paris". The movie was awarded with the 'Golden Tulip for Best Director' at the Istanbul Film Festival.

In 1973/1974 he shot his first feature film, 'Voyage en Grande Tartarie' , a rather dark work starring Jean-Luc Bideau and Quebec actress Micheline Lanctôt .

Jean-Charles Tacchella studied in Marseilles and, just after the liberation of France, left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director.

In the early 1960s , Tacchella interrupted his career as a screenwriter and prepared film projects that he wanted to direct himself. Several of these projects failed and it was not until 1969 that he shot his first film as a director, Les Derniers Hivers, a 23-minute film with thirty actors.

He also collaborated on the then nascent television, by imagining the first show in which the public participated. Then he gave up journalism.

He had Genoese ancestry.

He was a member of the board of directors of the Cinémathèque française from 1981, then became its president in 2001 and honorary president in 2003.

He also became a playwright (three of his plays were performed at the Théâtre Mouffetard ), but "Les Derniers Hivers" established Tacchella as a director.

Tacchella was hired in 1949 as a gagman by the producer Pierre Braunberger. He began to work anonymously on screenplays, notably 'Demain il sera trop tard' by Léonide Moguy with Vittorio De Sica .

Jean-Charles Tacchella directed eleven features, many of which have had successful international careers and been awarded prestigious prizes.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Cousin Cousine (1975), which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and which was later remade in the U.S. as Cousins (1989) starring Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young and William Petersen.

From 1955 to 1962, he wrote about twenty screenplays, including 'La loi, c'est la loi' by Christian-Jaque, 'Voulez-vous danser avec moi?' by Michel Boisrond , 'Le Voleur du Tibidabo' by Maurice Ronet , 'La Longue Marche' by Alexandre Astruc , among others. With Gérard Oury, he wrote several screenplays, including that of 'Le crime ne payé pas' and the first version of 'La Grande Vadrouille' (with Louis de Funès and Bourvil).

Tacchella was described as being "a smooth technician, Tacchella's camera work is fluid and precise".

He was passionate about new experiences: as a television serial writer (in 1965-66), he wrote forty hours of television, including the popular 'Vive la vie' .