Biography
Philippe Lopes-Curval was born in Bayeux in 1951 and worked as a French screenwriter and film director. After several years as an assistant director, including for Alain Resnais, he made short films and in 1986 the feature Trop tard Balthazar. Over many years he wrote screenplays for films directed by Gérard Jugnot, among them Une époque formidable…, Casque bleu and Monsieur Batignole. Together with Christophe Barratier he wrote the adaptation and dialogue for Les Choristes (2004), a remake of La Cage aux rossignols. For the stage version of the story, which opened at the Folies Bergère in Paris in 2017, he wrote the book and lyrics with Barratier. He died in Bayeux in 2023.
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