Nelly Kaplan

Nelly Kaplan (11 April 1931 – 12 November 2020) was an Argentine-born French writer and film director who focused on the arts, film, and filmmakers. She studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires. Gance gave her the opportunity to work on the film La tour de Nesle. She filmed and produced a 1966 documentary, The Picasso Look, about the works of Picasso being delivered and displayed in Paris.

Biography Nelly Kaplan was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a Jewish family. A "neo-surrealist," she was "the only female film maker linked with surrealism." Kaplan left for France at the age of 21. She served as a professor and lecturer at Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques.Her works are often female-centered and approach eroticism from a woman's point of view.

Her films have been shown at many international festivals. As a member of the SACD, she took part in the board of directors as a member of the Cinema Commission on several occasions. Kaplan regularly collaborated on the show "Des Papous dans la Tête," on France Culture. She contributed to the cinema section of the magazine Le Magazine Littéraire for 25 years. Kaplan was Commander of the Arts and Letters, Officer in the National Merite Order, Cavalier of the Legion of Honor, and Academician of the Alphonse Allais Academy.

Nelly Kaplan died from COVID-19 at a nursing home in Geneva on 12 November 2020 aged 89, just 3 month later that her husband Claude Makoski.

Career In 1965, under the pen-name of Belen, she published a collection of short stories through the J.J. Pauvert Publishing House. Le Réservoir des sens, was a great critical and popular success. Two years later, in 1967, during the retrospective organized at the Grand Palais for Pablo Picasso's 85th birthday, she directed a mid-length feature in color, Le Regard Picasso, which won a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. 1971: Papa les p'tits bateaux 1976: Néa 1979: Charles et Lucie 1985: Patte de velours (TV) 1991: Plaisir d'amour

Co-writer of the film Il faut vivre dangereusement, by Claude Makovski, 1974.

Co-writer of Jean Chapot's téléfilms: Livingstone, 1980 Un fait d'hiver, 1981 La Tentation d'Antoine, 1981 Ce fut un bel été, 1982 Meurtre sans pourboire, 1983 Le Regard dans le miroir, 1984 Le Crépuscule des loups, 1986 Les Mouettes, 1989 Honorin et la Loreleï, 1991 Polly West est de retour, 1993 Honorin et l'enfant prodigue, 1994. La Petite fille en costume marin, 1997.

Collaborated over 22 years to the Magazine Littéraire with a column on film adaptations from books.