Francis Mankiewicz

Francis Mankiewicz (1944-1993), born in Shanghai, a distant relative of the Hollywood filmmaker Joseph Mankiewicz, studied cinema in London from 1966 to 1968 and made his first feature film in 1972, shown at Venice. Réjean Ducharme, who had seen that film, sent him a screenplay without knowing him; the two men worked together twice. His last feature film for the cinema, in 1988, selected at Cannes in the Un certain regard section, received a mention from the ecumenical jury there. He then worked for television and died at the age of forty-nine.

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• CinemaGood RiddanceLes bons débarrasFrancis Mankiewicz · 1980Cinema