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René Mathelin is a Director of Photography French

René Mathelin

René Mathelin
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René Mathelin est un directeur de la photographie français.

Biography

René Mathelin débute comme deuxième assistant opérateur sur Tête blonde de Maurice Cam (1950) et exerce également comme premier assistant opérateur ou cadreur dans les années 1950. Durant cette même période, il est chef opérateur de quelques courts métrages documentaires, dont Rentrée des classes de Jacques Rozier (1956).

Son premier long métrage comme directeur de la photographie est Adieu Philippine du même Jacques Rozier (1962). Ultérieurement, il collabore à plusieurs reprises avec Yves Robert, notamment sur Alexandre le bienheureux (1968) et Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire (1972).

Parmi ses films français (ou en coproduction) des années 1970, on peut citer également Max et les Ferrailleurs de Claude Sautet (1971), Le Magnifique de Philippe de Broca (1973) et La Gueule de l'autre de Pierre Tchernia (1979), son dernier long métrage.

À la télévision française, il contribue à partir de 1962 à des séries, émissions et téléfilms, dont Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (un épisode, 1962), Le Tribunal de l'impossible (quatre épisodes, 1968-1972) et le téléfilm La Maison des autres de Jean-Pierre Marchand (1977).

Ses trois dernières contributions au petit écran, diffusées en 1982, sont deux téléfilms et la mini-série Mozart de Marcel Bluwal.

Best films

Very Happy Alexander (1968)
(Director of Photography)
We Will All Meet in Paradise (1977)
(Director of Photography)
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
(Director of Photography)
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974)
(Director of Photography)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
(Director of Photography)
The Other One's Mug (1979)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Yves Robert
Yves Robert
(5 films)
Jean Carmet
Jean Carmet
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of René Mathelin (15 films)

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Cameraman

The Other One's Mug
Directed by Pierre Tchernia
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Curd Jürgens, Bernadette Lafont, Andréa Parisy, Paulette Dubost
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9878652.9878652.9878652.9878652.987865
The film starts in 1978 Paris. In the middle of the presidential election, Martial Perrin, president of the "parti centriste des Conservateurs Indépendants Progressistes" (CIP), learns that Richard Krauss, an old mercenary convicted for taking violent action against the Djibouti government when the latter was still a French colony, has escaped from prison. In his trial, he had publicly promised to kill every man who had stood in the way of his Coup d'état. Martial Perrin is one of those men.
Sugar
Sugar (1978)
, 1h44
Directed by Jacques Rouffio
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Jean Carmet, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Nelly Borgeaud, Georges Descrières, Roger Hanin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1580353.1580353.1580353.1580353.158035
The film recounts a fraud case, on the basis of the speculative bubble on the price of sugar in 1974. A small saver, Adrien Courtois lose all the inheritance of his wife. The Viscount Raoul Renaud Homécourt of Vibraye is a fantastic and unscrupulous broker. Between the two men, so different, will be born a friendship and complicity. Around this couple gravitate some savory characters...
We Will All Meet in Paradise, 1h50
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme, Jenny Arasse
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.3954353.3954353.3954353.3954353.395435
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover.
Pardon Mon Affaire, 1h50
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme, Anny Duperey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.496693.496693.496693.496693.49669
Voici Étienne juché sur la corniche d'un immeuble cossu du haut des Champs-Élysées, nu sous son peignoir trop juste. Il narre son aventure.
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, 1h16
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc, Jean Bouise, Paul Le Person
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2990853.2990853.2990853.2990853.299085
Three months after the end of Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, Francois Perrin, the Tall Blond Man, (who has been living happily with his lover Christine in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is once again press-ganged into service.
The Magnificent One, 1h35
Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Spy films
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Hans Meyer, Monique Tarbès, Mario David
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.546073.546073.546073.546073.54607
François Merlin (Belmondo) is a Jean Bruce type writer of pulp espionage novels (he has written 42 so far) and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renowned superspy "Bob Sinclar" (The name of the character is never seen written in the movie, while some people write his name "Saint-Clar" the way it is pronounced in French sounds like Sinclar.)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, 1h26
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Paul Le Person, Mireille Darc, Jean Carmet
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5946853.5946853.5946853.5946853.594685
Bernard Milan, the second-in-command of France's Counter-Espionage department, is out to discredit his chief Louis Toulouse so that he can supplant him. When a French heroin smuggler who has been arrested in New York claims that the drug smuggling was a secret mission on the orders of French Counter-Espionage (actually on Milan's orders), the resulting bad press reflects on Toulouse, who cannot prove that Milan was responsible. In retaliation, Toulouse hatches a plot to deal with his ambitious subordinate: in a room which he knows is filled with hidden microphones, he sends his assistant Perrache to Orly airport at 9:30AM the next morning, making Milan (who has been listening) believe that Perrache has gone to meet a master spy who will expose Milan's treachery. However, Toulouse secretly instructs Perrache to choose someone at random from the crowd of travelers arriving at that time.
Max and the Junkmen, 1h50
Directed by Claude Sautet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Georges Wilson, Bernard Fresson, François Périer, Boby Lapointe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.643243.643243.643243.643243.64324
Born into a wealthy family of French vintners, Max (Michel Piccoli) is a loner who devoted himself entirely to his obsession: the arrest of criminals. A former judge he is a police inspector and he sees a new band of burglars escape. This failure is still fresh in his mind when he meets Abel who has become a scrap thief and plunders construction sites with a small band of hoodlums around Nanterre. Max plans to encourage them to commit something big and catch them on the spot. Posing as a client, he meets Lily (Romy Schneider), a young German-born prostitute who is the companion of Abel. He pretends to be the director of a small bank branch which receives significant amounts of money at regular intervals. He ensures the support of his police commissioner. Max fails however to reveal his role as instigator. Gradually, some feeling arises between Max and Lily. But Max keeps a reserved attitude and merely influences the scrap through her. Finally, guessing the band ready for action, he communicates an ideal date to commit robbery. On the scheduled day, the police await them and they are arrested. Later in the police station, Rosinsky (the top cop in the bank's district) reveals to Max that he wants all collaborators brought to justice, including Lily. Distraught, Max tries to save her and ends up threatening Rosinsky. In an argument, Max pulls out his gun and kills him.
Touch and Go, 1h50
Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Michael York, Amidou, Didi Perego, Jean Bouise
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.8852252.8852252.8852252.8852252.885225
En 1942, en Afrique du Nord, une jeune femme (Marlène Jobert) aide un officier anglais (Michael York) à échapper aux Allemands, avec l'aide d'un escroc (Michel Piccoli) et d'un Tunisien (Amidou). Ils vivront mille aventures dans le désert.
Very Happy Alexander, 1h40
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Cooking films, Films about the labor movement, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert, Pierre Richard, Tsilla Chelton, Paul Le Person
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.631813.631813.631813.631813.63181
Alexandre, homme bon vivant et nonchalant, est cultivateur dans une ferme française de la Beauce. Cependant sa vie quotidienne est dirigée par « la Grande », son ambitieuse mais néanmoins tyrannique épouse, qui le pousse à bout de force en lui imposant chaque jour une liste de travaux démesurée. Devenu brutalement veuf, il éprouve un grand soulagement et se sent libéré de son labeur : il décide de s'accorder un repos qu'il juge mérité, afin de prendre le temps de savourer la vie. Son comportement sème rapidement le trouble dans le petit village par l'exemple qu'il donne, et une partie des habitants décide de le forcer à reprendre le travail. Mais ils échouent, et Alexandre commence à faire des émules…
Don't Play with Martians, 1h40
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Jean Rochefort, Macha Méril, Sacha Briquet, Haydée Politoff, Jean Ozenne, Frédéric de Pasquale
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9611952.9611952.9611952.9611952.961195
Deux journalistes qui couvrent la naissance de quintuplés en Bretagne se retrouvent face à une affaire d'état : l'infirmière de l'hôpital s'est servie de leur télex pour s'amuser et a envoyé à Paris une nouvelle annoncant le débarquement des Martiens!
The Ghostly Rental, 1h30
Directed by Robert Enrico
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Marie Laforêt, Michael Lonsdale, Reine Courtois, François Vibert, Darling Légitimus, Guy Piérauld
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.411973.411973.411973.411973.41197
Au cours d'une promenade dans la campagne, un jeune étudiant, Fanning, découvre une maison abandonnée dont le capitaine Diamond, un petit vieillard, est propriétaire. L'étudiant qui réussit à se lier avec le vieillard, apprend que cette maison est hantée par le fantôme de la fille du vieillard dont il a jadis provoqué la mort. Le fantôme de la jeune fille lui loue la maison et tous les trimestres, il doit aller recevoir, des mains du spectre, le montant du loyer. Un jour l'étudiant accepte d'aller dans la maison toucher la redevance à la place du vieillard, qui est tombé malade...
Adieu Philippine, 1h46
Directed by Jacques Rozier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Seafaring films, Transport films, Algerian War films, Histoire de France
Actors Vittorio Caprioli, Marco Perrin, Arlette Gilbert, Maurice Garrel, Pierre Frag, Jeanne Pérez
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.4898053.4898053.4898053.4898053.489805
Michel is a bored young man in Paris about to be sent to Algeria in the army. He works as a technician at a TV station. One day he meets two teenage girls, Juliette and Liliane, and begins dating them both separately. Eventually the girls find out and Michel goes on vacation to Corsica to escape them. The two girls follow him there and the three search for a film director who owes Michel money. Juliette and Liliane watch Michel sail away on a boat headed for Algeria.
Back to School, 24minutes
Directed by Jacques Rozier
Origin France
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5894853.5894853.5894853.5894853.589485
C’est le jour de la rentrée des classes à Correns, un petit village du Var. René n’a pas fait ses devoirs de vacances ; il jette son cartable à la rivière et part faire l’école buissonnière.
Midnight... Quai de Bercy, 1h35
Directed by Christian Stengel
Origin France
Genres Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Striptease
Actors Erich von Stroheim, Georges Randax, Madeleine Robinson, Francis Blanche, Mary Marquet, Germaine Reuver
Roles Second Assistant Camera
Rating62% 3.1356453.1356453.1356453.1356453.135645
Mado, la peu farouche concierge d'un immeuble montmartrois, est poignardée. L'inspecteur Brénot enquête. Il est secondé par une fort jolie femme, Irène Cazeneuve, veuve de l'un de ses collègues et nouvellement installée dans l'immeuble. Elle se révèle une excellente adjointe, interrogeant avec plus ou moins de discrétion selon les besoins, divers suspects : un masseur équivoque, un prédicateur et son fils, un jeune professeur de latin... Mais l'assassin figure-t-il vraiment parmi cette liste ? Mado avait en effet attisé la haine et la jalousie de tous ou presque dans le voisinage.