Étienne Chatiliez
Étienne Chatiliez (born 17 June 1952) is a French film director.
Also recorded as Etienne Chatiliez
Étienne Chatiliez
- Name
- Étienne Chatiliez
- Born
- 17 June 1952
- Birthplace
- Roubaix, France Étienne Chatiliez (born 17 June 1952) is a French film director.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- screenwriter · director
- Honours
- Officer of Arts and Letters · Knight of the National Order of Merit
- Languages
- French
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Étienne Chatiliez. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q289512 · wikipedia · Étienne Chatiliez
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Étienne Chatiliez • Born — 17 June 1952 • Birthplace — Roubaix, France Étienne Chatiliez (born 17 June 1952) is a French film director.
Life and career
Life and career
He was born in Roubaix, France, the son of Pierre Chatiliez, an insurance worker, and Denise Rateau, and grew up in Marcq-en-Barœul near Lille with his elder brother and sister. He studied at the Lycée Yves-Kernanec in Marcq-en-Barœul. Chatiliez began his career as an editor at Europe 1 and then for an advertising agency CLM&BBDO where he spent seven years as a writer editor. He edited many television adverts, winning several awards, before moving into cinema.. With an assistant in publicity Florence Quentin his move to the big screen was a huge success, and La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille launched many catchphrases, in "an acerbic, grating, insolent comedy", presenting two utterly contrasted families the bourgeois Le Quesnoy, and the proletarian Groseille. In this and subsequent films, he scratches away the surface of decorum and family myths, with an abrasive humou where the audience are both disturbed and amused, and which make the viewer uncomfortable yet touch them deeply. In 2002 he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Filmography
Filmography
• 1988 - Life is a Long Quiet River (won Cesars for Best First Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation) • 1990 - Tatie Danielle • 1995 - Happiness is in the Field • 2000 - Drugs! (short segment entitled La Famille médicament) • 2001 - Tanguy • 2004 - La confiance règne • 2008 - Agathe Cléry • 2012 - L'oncle Charles • 2019 - Tanguy Is Back
Awards
• Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation • Best Director • Cesar for Best Advertising Film
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Étienne Chatiliez, revision 1352344893 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 26 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
38,713 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Ethel RosenbergPerson
- Ethel ShannonPerson
- Ethlyne ClairPerson
- Étienne ArnalPerson
- Étienne ComarPerson
- Étienne DecrouxPerson
- Etienne KallosPerson
- Étienne PérierPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Étienne Chatiliez?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.