Michel Deville

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut JeanLuc Godard and Claude Chabrol possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style Nevertheless his films especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s were popular in his native France