Pierre Edelman

Pierre Edelman born in 1944 is a French film producer and former actor In the 1970s Pierre Edelman worked in a workshop in the Sentier district of Paris specializing in denim He became a collaborator of Colette and Jacques Nivelle specialists in stonewashed jeans In the mid1980s he worked as an assistant to photographer JeanMarie Périer in Los Angeles on the production of advertising films He then became a journalist and later a producer at Ciby 2000 the company founded in 1990 by Francis Bouygues and later at StudioCanal in the 2000s It was through him that David Lynch frustrated with the American production system that restricted his creative freedom was able to make films in Francefirst with Ciby 2000 and later with StudioCanal thanks to Edelman introducing him to Alain Sarde Edelman produced Lynchs work throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s from Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me 1992 and Lost Highway 1997 to Mulholland Drive 2001 The latter film came to fruition and became a cornerstone of the directors filmography thanks to Edelmans intervention At StudioCanal at the time he proposed to Lynch that he turn his failed ABC pilot into a feature film Mulholland Drive would soon be ranked among the best films of the early 21st century With Ciby 2000 and later StudioCanal Edelman also produced films by Pedro Almodóvar including High Heels 1991 The Flower of My Secret 1995 and All About My Mother 1999 as well as Underground by Emir Kusturica which won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 At an informal party on a Cannes beach after the Palme dOr ceremony Pierre Edelman defended Carole Bouquet when a fight broke out Kusturica said of him I owe a lot to men like Pierre Edelman who put everything on the line so I could make Underground especially since after the Arizona Dream scandal I was blacklisted by the insurance companies He dated Béatrice de Cambronne in the 1960s was in a relationship with Bernadette Lafont in the early 1970s Helena Kallianiotes at the end of the same decade and later Victoria Abril with whom he had two children in the 1990s In the spring of 2023 he disappeared from public view In March of that year his disappearance was reported to the police in Pariss 8th arrondissement by longtime friend journalist and essayist Guillaume Durand During an investigation the newspaper Le Monde tracked him down in May 2025 at a Paris nursing home where he now resides after suffering a stroke Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Edelman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia