Pascal Mérigeau

Pascal Mérigeau on 28 November 2014 during the Master Class on John Boorman in Paris.

Pascal Mérigeau (30 January 1953, Périgné in Deux-Sèvres) is a French journalist and film critic.

Biography After studying in Poitiers, he settled in Paris in 1976 and became a journalist. He worked for film magazines, then for Les Nouvelles littéraires, Le Point and Le Monde, before collaborating to Le Nouvel Observateur from September 1997.

He participated in the selection of films for the Cannes Film Festival, currently replaced by Eric Libiot.

A novelist, he also writes short stories, including Quand Angèle fut seule written in 1983.

Publications Novels Escaliers dérobés, Denoël, 1994 Max Lang n'est plus ici, Denoël, 1999 on cinema Faye Dunaway, PAC, 1978 Annie Girardot, PAC, 1978 Josef Von Sternberg, Edilig, 1983 Série B (with Stéphane Bourgoin), Edilig, 1983 Gene Tierney, Edilig, 1987 Mankiewicz, Denoël, 1993 L'aventure vraie de Canal +, with Jacques bayard, 2001 Maurice Pialat. L'Imprécateur, Grasset, 2003 Pialat, la rage au cœur, Ramsay, 2007 Cinéma : autopsie d'un meurtre, Flammarion, 2007 Depardieu, Flammarion, 2008 Jean Renoir, Flammarion, 2012

Honours 1995: Prize for best book on cinema, for Mankiewicz 2010: Raymond Chirat Prize (Lumière Film Festival) 2013: Prize for the best French book on cinema & Prix Goncourt de la biographie for Jean Renoir