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Jacques R. Villa

Jacques R. Villa

Director, Writer, 2nd Unit / Asst Director

Died February 10, 2002

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Jacques R. Villa's first film Wild Roots of Love (1960), a dark tale involving four little girls, may have been ahead of its time. Whatever the case my be, the censors disliked the idea of three "innocent" lasses trying to drown a fourth one. As a result, the movie was purely and simply banned just after being released in 1959. When it was finally authorized five years after it was too late, it flopped at the box office. Nowadays it remains largely unseen and unjustly forgotten, despite featuring Catherine Deneuve in her first major role at age 16. Villa was born in 1927 in Soulac-sur-Mer to an army officer father. The place where he studied was a Jesuit college, reputed the severest in France. At 15, not putting up with the strict discipline of the place, he ran away to Paris, where he was hired as a jazz musician. But this was only an enchanted interlude as, after a time, he was brought back home by his family. At last an adult, he could finally fend for himself and started working for French television, first in Morocco, then in Paris where he became the assistant of François Chalais, whose programs about cinema were very popular. It is during this period that Jacques Villa wrote a Christmas tale that would later be the basis of Wild Roots of Love (1960).

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Director

10

Type

Year

Les sauvagines Mini-Series1973

D'hier et d'aujourd'hui TV Series1967

Ce monde étrange et merveilleux Poster

Ce monde étrange et merveilleux TV Series1966

Un jour comme les autres TV Series1966

1... 2... 3... Rideau! Poster

1... 2... 3... Rideau! TV Series1965

Frédéric le gardian Poster

Frédéric le gardian TV Series1965

Mon royaume pour un lapin TV Movie1965

Alerte à Orly Mini-Series1964

Her Bikini Never Got Wet Poster

Her Bikini Never Got Wet Feature Film1962

Wild Roots of Love Poster

Wild Roots of Love Feature Film1960

Writer

2

Type

Year

Les sauvagines Mini-Series1973

Wild Roots of Love Poster

Wild Roots of Love Feature Film1960

2nd Unit / Asst Director

2

Type

Year

La p... sentimentale Poster

La p... sentimentale Feature Film1958

Cabaret du soir TV Series1957

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