René Féret (26 May 1945 – 28 April 2015) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and producer.Le cinéaste René Féret est mort
His film '' Solemn Communion'', was entered into the

1977 Cannes Film Festival The 30th Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 27 May 1977. Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini served as jury president for the main competition. Italian filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top priz ...

. In '' The Man Who Wasn't There'' (''L'Homme qui n'était pas là''), his 1987 film adaption of Roderick MacLeish's novel, he played alongside

Claude Jade Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (; 8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006), was a French actress. She starred as Antoine Doinel#Christine Darbon, Christine in François Truffaut's three films ''Stolen Kisses'' (1968), ''Bed and B ...

in the leading role of Charles Elaine. Very much an independent creator, Féret made several films around an invented family living in northern France, the Gravets, but based on his own life experience. He often used members of his own family in his films.Disparition de René Féret (Death of René Féret) Unifrance website, 28 April 2015
accessed 18 December 2022. Féret also turned to marginalised individuals in trouble: a man sent to a psychiatric hospital in ''Histoire de Paul'' (1975), a hermaphrodite in ''Mystère Alexina'', the elderly in ''Rue du Retrait'' (2000) and cancer sufferers in ''Comme une étoile dans la nuit'' (2009). Later in his career, he turned his attention to historical artistic figures with the films ''Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart'' (2010) and ''Anton Tchékhov 1890'' (2015). His work was described as “subtle and possessing great sensibility”.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feret, Rene 1945 births 2015 deaths People from Nord (French department) Male actors from Hauts-de-France French male film actors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French film directors French film producers 20th-century French male actors