Jean Achache

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1952}}

| birth_place = France

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| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|screenwriter|film producer|writer}}

| yearsactive = 1974–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Carole Achache
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| children = Mona Achache

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Jean Achache (born 1952) is a French director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne-39055/filmographie/ |title=Allociné |access-date=2016-12-24 |archive-date=2016-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224164655/http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne-39055/filmographie/ |url-status=live }}

Biography

Jean Achache began his career as a filmmaker in the mid-1970s alongside Robert Enrico as an assistant director for Le Vieux Fusil and The Secret.[http://www.canalplus.fr/c-cinema/cid293020-jean-achache.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224165709/http://www.canalplus.fr/c-cinema/cid293020-jean-achache.html |date=2016-12-24 }} Sur canal + In the eighties, he collaborated with Bertrand Tavernier on films like Death Watch or A Sunday in the Country. Jean Achache then turned to the realization of his own works through clips,{{Cite web |url=http://www.cinemotions.com/Jean-Achache-nm61824 |title=cinémotions |access-date=2016-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502031805/http://www.cinemotions.com/Jean-Achache-nm61824 |archive-date=2014-05-02 |url-status=dead }} documentaries like Diabolo's Workshop with Terry Gilliam{{Cite web |url=http://www.commeaucinema.com/personne/jean-achache,122701 |title=commeaucinema |access-date=2016-12-24 |archive-date=2016-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224233341/http://www.commeaucinema.com/personne/jean-achache,122701 |url-status=live }} and films like the adaptation of the novel Un soir au Club by Christian Gailly in 2009.{{Cite web |url=http://www.unsoirauclub.com/ |title=site du film |access-date=2016-12-24 |archive-date=2012-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130054753/http://www.unsoirauclub.com/ |url-status=live }}

In 2006, he published his first novel, Juste une nuit at Éditions du Masque.[http://www.lemasque.com/auteur-jean-achache-000000042768] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615213156/http://www.lemasque.com/auteur-jean-achache-000000042768 |date=2013-06-15 }} site de l'éditeur {{ISBN|2-7024-3296-4}}

Personal life

Achache was married to French writer and photographer Carole Achache, with whom he had a daughter, Mona Achache, born on 18 March 1981.{{Cite web |last=Lacuve |first=Jean-Luc |date=25 November 2023 |title=Little Girl Blue de Mona Achache |url=https://www.cineclubdecaen.com/realisateur/achache/littlegirlblue.htm |website=Ciné-club de Caen |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Mona Achache |url=https://www.premiere.fr/Star/Mona-Achache |access-date=1 December 2023 |website=Première |language=fr |archive-date=4 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204153704/https://www.premiere.fr/Star/Mona-Achache |url-status=live}}

In 2023, Achache portrayed himself in a biographical docudrama about Carole Achache, Little Girl Blue, which was directed by their daughter, Mona Achache.{{Cite web |last=Goldszal |first=Clémentine |date=11 November 2023 |title=Avec "Little Girl Blue", la cinéaste Mona Achache affronte les fantômes de son histoire |trans-title=With "Little Girl Blue", filmmaker Mona Achache confronts the ghosts of her story |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2023/11/11/avec-little-girl-blue-la-cineaste-mona-achache-affronte-les-fantomes-de-son-histoire_6199549_4500055.html |website=Le Monde |language=fr}}