Pascal Mérigeau


Pascal Mérigeau 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

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

Honours