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Cédric Klapisch was born on 4 September 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a director and actor, known for The Spanish Apartment (2002), Rise (2022) and Family Resemblances (1996). He has been married to Lola Doillon since 2002. They have one child.Deux Moi 2019, Back to Burgundy *** 2017, Chinese Puzzle *** 2013, Ma part du gâteau *** 2011, Paris *** 2008, L' Auberge Espagnole 2002- Rémi Bezançon was born on 25 March 1971 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008), The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019) and Zarafa (2012).Le mystère Henri Pick 2009 ◊ starring Fabrice Luchini, Ma Vie en l' air 2005
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François Ozon was born on 15 November 1967 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for In the House (2012), 8 Women (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003).Peter von Kant 2022, Double 2017, My new girl friend ** 2014, Jeune & Jolie 2013, Dans la Maison **** 2012, "Swimming Pool" *** 2003", 8 Femmes" ** 2002- Producer
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Robert Guédiguian was born on 3 December 1953 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is a producer and writer, known for Marius and Jeannette (1997), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011) and La ville est tranquille (2000). He has been married to Ariane Ascaride since 1975.Gloria Mundi 2019, La Villa *** 2017, Histoire d'un fou 2015 - a critic, Au fil d' Ariane *** 2012, Les neiges du Kilimandjaro *** 2011, Le Voyage en Arménie 2006- Writer
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Eric Barbier was born on 29 June 1960 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is a writer and director, known for Promise at Dawn (2017), Small Country: An African Childhood (2020) and Le brasier (1991).La Promesse de l' Aube **** 2018 (The life of Romain Gary)- Director
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a self-taught director who was very quickly interested by cinema, with a predilection for a fantastic cinema where form is as important as the subject. Thus he started directing TV commercials and video clips (such as Julien Clerc in 1984). At the same time he met designer/drawer Marc Caro with whom he made two short animation movies: L'évasion (1978) and Le manège (1979), the latter winning a César for the best short movie. After these two successful movies Jeunet and Caro spent more than one year together by making every detail (scenario, costumes, production design) of their third short movie: The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981). This movie combined sci-fi and heroic-fantasy in a visually delirious story of the rising paranoia among soldiers trapped underground. With that movie they garnered several festival prizes in France. (This movie also marked their first collaboration with Gilles Adrien who later wrote the story of their two feature movies with them). After that Jeunet directed two other short movies without the help of Caro: Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko (1983), then Foutaises (1989) with Dominique Pinon who became another regular collaborator of Jeunet. All Jeunet's short movies won a lot of awards in France but also overseas and he won a second César with Foutaises (1989).
In 1991, Jeunet and Caro took their first steps in a feature movie: Delicatessen (1991). It was such a success that it won 4 Césars including the awards for the best new director(s) and the best scenario. For this movie Jeunet and Caro divided responsibilities with the former guiding the actors and the latter coordinating the artistic elements. And Jeunet showed again his liking to have Dominique Pinon, of course, but also Rufus, Jean-Claude Dreyfus and Ticky Holgado who appeared again in Jeunet's next movies, or Maurice Lamy who already had a little role in Foutaises (1989). The success of Delicatessen (1991) even surprised Jeunet and Caro themselves but they took advantage of that in order to finally make their almost 10 year-old project! This project took more than 4 more years to be carried out but the movie turned out enormous: The City of Lost Children (1995) was a black tale and was so innovative at this period that they needed to create new software for the special effects (mostly made by Pitof). Jeunet and Caro kept the same responsibilities as in Delicatessen (1991) and the movie also combined different international skills: US actor Ron Perlman, Chilean-born actor Daniel Emilfork, Iranian cinematographer Darius Khondji (who was already in the crew of Delicatessen (1991)), Americo-Italian composer Angelo Badalamenti and French fashion-designer Jean-Paul Gaultier for the costumes. While the film was supposed to be suitable for children, some considered it "dark", to which Jeunet and Caro replied that it was no more "dark" than Pinocchio (1940) or Bambi (1942).
But these critics didn't stop the movie from being successful and when the movie gained them further attention, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood called them. Thus in 1997, Jeunet left France to make a temporary career in the USA for the fourth installment of the 'Alien' series: Alien: Resurrection (1997). Marc Caro followed him just as a design supervisor but Jeunet brought with him a little army' of his usual collaborators (mostly French): actors Dominique Pinon and Ron Perlman, but also Pitof, Darius Khondji or editor Hervé Schneid, and for the first time Alain Carsoux who was responsible of the special effects of Jeunet's next film. In 2000, after two collaborations with Caro and one in the US, Jeunet came back to France in order to make a more personal movie, even if Guillaume Laurant wrote the story with him. Thus he used a lot of different details he wrote everywhere during his life (and also recycled things he'd already done, e.g. in Foutaises (1989)) and shot his story mostly in the Parisian suburb of Montmartre where he lives. Then the result was Amélie (2001) starring Audrey Tautou and Mathieu Kassovitz. With this movie Jeunet made the biggest worldwide success of French cinema history. A real magical potion, which won innumerable awards in the whole world including 4 Césars (therefore Jeunet won his fifth and sixth Césars!).
Jeunet eventually decided to adapt Sébastien Japrisot's book A Very Long Engagement (2004) for which he called Audrey Tautou and Dominique Pinon again, but also many other famous French actors and Jodie Foster. It had one of the most important budgets in French film history and eventually had a good international success and many nominations and awards.Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles **** 2004, Amélie **** 2001- Writer
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Christophe Barratier was born on 17 June 1963 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a writer and producer, known for The Chorus (2004), Faubourg 36 (2008) and Team Spirit (2016).L' Outsider (A story about world's big bank Societé Générale) 2016, Paris 36 2008, Les Choristes **** 2004- Producer
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Hugo Gélin was born on 4 May 1980 in Paris, France. He is a producer and director, known for Lupin (2021), Love at Second Sight (2019) and Two Is a Family (2016).Mon Inconnue 2019 (•_•), Comme des frères 2012- Actor
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Xavier Legrand was born on 28 March 1979 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France. He is an actor and director, known for Custody (2017), Just Before Losing Everything (2013) and The Successor (2023).Jusqu' à la garde 2022- Actor
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Daniel Auteuil was born on 24 January 1950 in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]. He is an actor and director, known for Caché (2005), Jean de Florette (1986) and The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011). He has been married to Aude Ambroggi since 22 July 2006. They have one child. He was previously married to Emmanuelle Béart and Anne Jousset.Amoureux de ma femme *** 2018- Writer
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Christophe Honoré was born on 10 April 1970 in Carhaix-Plouguer, Finistère, France. He is a writer and director, known for Sorry Angel (2018), Love Songs (2007) and The Beautiful Person (2008).Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite) *** 2019, Les Biens-Aimés 2011- Writer
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Xavier Giannoli was born on 7 March 1970 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a writer and director, known for Marguerite (2015), Lost Illusions (2021) and L'interview (1998).Marguerite 2015- Director
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Benoît Jacquot was born on 5 February 1947 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Farewell, My Queen (2012), The School of Flesh (1998) and À Tout de Suite (2004).Journal d'une femme de chambre 2015, Á tout de suite 2004, Villa Amalia, Adieu ma reine ***, Tosca (Opera) 2001, Les Ailes de la colombe 1983- Writer
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Born in Paris, France, in 1952. Jacques Audiard's family has always been involved in movie business. His father, Michel, was a popular screenwriter and director and his uncle a producer. But in his teens he refused that world and wanted to be a teacher. He studied literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne but didn't finish his degree. By that time, his then girlfriend suggested he work as a trainee editor during his university holidays. He worked as an assistant editor on several movies like "Le locataire" (1976) directed by Roman Polanski.
He also joined a theater where he did all kinds of work. He specially enjoyed adapting works for stage. In the eighties he wrote the screenplays of some successful movies like "Mortelle Randonnee" (1983), "Reveillon Chez Bob" (1984), "Saxo" (1987), "Frequence meurtre" (1988) and "Grosse fatigue" (1994). Most of those films were thrillers directed by prestigious filmmakers like Claude Miller and Michel Blanc. He also directed some well received short movies.
Thanks to the success of those movies he was able, in 1994, to raise up the money to make his first movie "Regarde les hommes tomber" a somber road movie starred by two of the most important French actors: Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean Louis Trintignant. That movie won 3 Cesars of the French academy for best editing, best new director (Jacques Audiard) and best new actor (for Kassovitz).
Kassovitz also became the star of his second movie "Un heros tres discret" released in the Festival de Cannes in 1996 where it won the award for best screenplay. "Un heros tres discret" undermined the myth of the French resistance to the Nazis by telling the story of a young impostor who rises high in French society after World war by concocting a past for himself as a hero. It also won awards in the festivals of Stockholm and Valladolid and made his name internationally.
In 2001 he made his third movie "Sur mes levres". The love story between two outsiders (a deaf office worker and a hoodlum) who decide to con a group of gangsters also became a success. It also won three Cesars (best actress, sound and screenplay).
His last movie, "De battre mon Coeur sest arrête" (a remake of "Fingers" a James Toback's movie) was released in the Berlin festival of 2005.
With those movies, Audiard has become the new master of the "polar" (French thriller) and inheritor of others great French directors like Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) and Henri Georges-Clouzot (1907-1977).- Director
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Guillaume Nicloux was born on 3 August 1966 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France. He is a director and writer, known for Thalasso (2019), Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014) and The Nun (2013).Valley of Love 2015- Actor
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Mathieu Amalric was born on 25 October 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and director, known for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Munich (2005).Les fantomes d' Ismael 2017,La Chambre Bleue 2014- Actor
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Samuel Benchetrit was born on 26 June 1973 in Champigny-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Dog (2017), I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007) and Nouvelle de la tour L (2001). He has been married to Vanessa Paradis since 30 June 2018. He was previously married to Marie Trintignant.Asphalte *** 2015- Writer
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Born on November 8, 1964 in Tunisia, Pierre Salvadori studied literature and cinema at the Censier site of the New Sorbonne University of Paris. He also followed a training in drama. He wrote his first screenplay in 1989 which, four years later, became the basis of Wild Target (1993), his first feature. About ten films followed, which confirmed qualities already present in "Cible émouvante" : sympathy for antiheroes, lightness often mixed with gravity (a lesson learned from his master Ernst Lubitsch), finely chiseled dialogs, the use of great actors who serve the text wonderfully (François Cluzet, Marie Trintigant, Guillaume Depardieu, José Garcia, Daniel Auteuil, Nathalie Baye, Catherine Deneuve)... His films, which vary from ultralight comedy (Priceless (2006)) to the darkest of films noirs (Les marchands de sable (2000)) all explore themes which are close to his heart : friendship and betrayal, truth and lies, seduction and devotion, adjustment or not to society... His last work to-date (In the Courtyard (2014) synthesizes to perfection the various trends that cross his work. Deftly mixing comedy (Antoine's offbeat behavior) with drama (Mathilde and Antoine's distress), lightness (the subtle dialogs) with gravity (how to fit into a decaying society), social commentary (France's economic situation) with zaniness (the eccentric neighbors), interpreted by two great actors (Catherine Deneuve in the difficult role of a woman who loses her balance and Gustave Kenvern as the depressed caretaker who tries to help her), Salvadori's masterpiece succeeds in every department and augurs well for the second part of his career.In the courtyard (Dans la cour) *** 2014 Sphax, TN- Producer
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Alexandre Arcady was born on 17 March 1947 in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]. He is a producer and writer, known for 24 Days (2014), What the Day Owes the Night (2012) and Dernier été à Tanger (1987).- Writer
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Abdellatif Kechiche was born on 7 December 1960 in Tunis, Tunisia. He is a writer and director, known for Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), Games of Love and Chance (2003) and Poetical Refugee (2000).- Writer
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Claude Miller was born on 20 February 1942 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for The Grilling (1981), L'effrontée (1985) and The Little Thief (1988). He was married to Annie Miller. He died on 4 April 2012 in Paris, France.- Director
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The films of Claire Denis frequently explore the fragile connections between people and the ways in which the most seemingly inconsequential relationship can have life-changing effects. At the heart of Denis' cinema is a fascination with the delights and difficulties of belonging and otherness, the gravity and gift of foreignness. Often revolving around reactions to the intrusion of the other, be it a stranger or foreigner, Denis' films insist on the vital necessity of the unusual to coexist within the "normal" world. In films such as I Can't Sleep (1994) and Nénette and Boni (1996), Denis captures the mercurial and instant shifts in tone, from the pleasurably sensual to the menacing or the simply unaccountable, caused by the intrusion of the strange into the fabric of the everyday. In Denis' films one often feels that all is well even as worlds collide and collapse or, conversely, that a grave challenge underlies the seemingly calm moments. While Denis' childhood in French colonial Africa is reflected most directly in the African setting shared by her debut feature Chocolat (1988) and best-known film, Beau Travail (1999), this encounter with the intimacies and injustices of colonialism resounds throughout much of her work. Also shaping Denis' unique vision are the apprenticeships she served, just out of film school, under a variety of renowned directors, including Jacques Rivette, Wim Wenders, Dusan Makavejev and Jim Jarmusch - an eclectic company that is itself suggestive of the unique juxtaposition of careful craft and seeming casualness within Denis' work. Denis has often spoken of her shock as a young woman at discovering the novels of Faulkner that have exerted such a major influence over postwar French cinema. For Denis, Faulkner "was a plunge into the senses, into terror and the pain of his characters." These words describe Denis' films as well. But whatever terror and pain her characters may sometimes experience is outmeasured by the depths of Denis' deep affection for them and by her curiosity in their experiences of pleasure as well as fear. Even in the unsettling Trouble Every Day (2001), the not-infrequent catastrophes in Denis' films provoke a sense of wonder at, and even delight in, the sheer weight of existence.Un beau soleil intérieur 2017, White Material **** (with Is. Huppert) 2009- Actress
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Agnès Jaoui was born on 19 October 1964 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and writer, known for The Taste of Others (2000), Look at Me (2004) and Family Resemblances (1996). She was previously married to Jean-Pierre Bacri.Let it rain (Parlez moi de la pluie) 2008- Actress
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Nicole Garcia was born on 22 April 1946 in Oran, France [now Algeria]. She is an actress and writer, known for From the Land of the Moon (2016), My American Uncle (1980) and Alias Betty (2001).Going Away (Un Beau Dimanche) 2012 (περισσότερα)- Actress
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Josiane Balasko was born on 15 April 1950 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for French Twist (1995), The Tenant (1976) and The Hedgehog (2009). She has been married to George Aguilar since 12 June 2003. She was previously married to Philippe Berry.Gazon Maudit 1995, Cliente ** 2008- Actor
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Frédéric Beigbeder was born on 21 September 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for The Ideal (2016), The Day All Women Loved Me (2006) and Love Lasts Three Years (2011). He has been married to Lara Micheli since 12 April 2014. They have two children. He was previously married to Amélie Labrande, Diane de MacMahon and Delphine Valette.L' amour dure trois ans *** 2011- Actress
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Maïwenn (sometimes credited as Maïwenn Besco or her birth name Maïwenn Le Besco, born 17 April 1976) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.
Maïwenn Le Besco was born in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, a suburban area east of Paris. Maïwenn is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French, and Algerian descent. Her Algerian ancestry comes from her maternal grandfather. Maïwenn's mother, Catherine Belkhodja, introduced her to the entertainment industry at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Maïwenn in her one-woman shows Le Pois Chiche (The Chickpea) and I'm an Actress.
Maïwenn starred in several films as a child, then teen, actress--notably as the child version of the lead role played by Isabelle Adjani in the hit film One Deadly Summer (1983).
Following her marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in 1993, Maïwenn interrupted her career for several years. During this period, she only appeared in a supporting part in Besson's Léon: The Professional (1994), in which she was credited as Ouin-Ouin. She also directed the film's making-of. Perhaps Maïwenn's most internationally-seen film role was her appearance as the alien Diva Bazina in Besson's The Fifth Element (1997).
After her breakup with Besson, Maïwenn returned to France. She performed as a standup comedian in an autobiographical one-woman-show, and reentered the movie business after several filmmakers saw her comedy routine in Paris. She appeared in several notable movies, including the horror film High Tension (2003), in which she starred opposite Cécile de France. By the time the film came out in 2003, she had decided she wanted to try directing. In 2006, she directed her first feature film, the semi-autobiographical Pardonnez-moi (2006). According to Maïwenn, after Besson learned she planned to use her own money to produce the film, he told her "You need to immediately stop what you're doing. You're crazy. Nobody puts their own money into a movie." After seeing the film he apologized, saying she was right on this occasion. Her second film was All About Actresses (2009), in which she appears as herself making a documentary. She achieved international recognition when her third film, the social drama Polisse (2011), won the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. All three films feature Maïwenn with a camera, stemming from a childhood fascination and her interest in the mise en abyme, the story within a story. Her 2015 film My King (2015) was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, with Emmanuelle Bercot winning the Best Actress award.
Maïwenn met film director Luc Besson when she was 12 and they began dating when she was 15. In January 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their daughter Shanna. On the DVD extras for the 1994 film Léon: The Professional, Maïwenn said the film is based on her relationship with Besson. She was 20 at the beginning of filming (early 1996) for The Fifth Element, during which Besson left her for the film's star, Milla Jovovich.
In 2004, Maïwenn had a son, Diego, with Jean-Yves Le Fur, her second ex-husband who is a real estate developer.- Actor
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Roschdy Zem was born on 28 September 1965 in Gennevilliers, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He is an actor and director, known for The Cold Light of Day (2012), Chocolat (2016) and Mauvaise foi (2006).Our Ties 2023 (director and actor)- Director
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Rachid Bouchareb was born on 1 September 1959 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Days of Glory (2006), Little Senegal (2000) and Cheb (1991).Little Senegal 2000, Our Ties 2023 (actor as Moucha) ᓚᘏᗢ Two men in town (remake '73) 2014, Outside the law 2010, London River 2009- Writer
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Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in school. He planned on becoming a marine biologist specializing in dolphins until a diving accident at age 17 which rendered him unable to dive any longer. He moved back to Paris, where he was born, and only at age 18 did he first have an urban life or television. He realized that film was a medium which he could combine all his interests in various arts together, so he began taking odd jobs on various films. He moved to America for three years, then returned to France and formed Les Films de Loups - his own production company, which later changed its name to Les Films de Dauphins. He is now able to dive again.- Writer
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Éric Toledano was born on 3 July 1971 in Paris, France. He is a writer and producer, known for The Intouchables (2011), The Specials (2019) and C'est la vie! (2017).Intouchables 2011- Writer
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Olivier Nakache was born on 15 April 1973 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a writer and producer, known for The Intouchables (2011), The Specials (2019) and C'est la vie! (2017).Intouchables 2011- Writer
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Philippe Le Guay was born on 22 October 1956 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a writer and director, known for Bicycling with Molière (2013), The Women on the 6th Floor (2010) and Le clou (1984).The Basement 2022 (L' homme dans la cave), Les femmes du 6ème étage *** 2010- Writer
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Régis Wargnier was born on 18 April 1948 in Metz, Moselle, France. He is a writer and director, known for East/West (1999), Indochine (1992) and La femme de ma vie (1986).- Writer
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Philippe Claudel was born on 2 February 1962 in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. He is a writer and director, known for I've Loved You So Long (2008), A Childhood (2015) and Avant l'hiver (2013).- Director
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Olivier Megaton was born on 6 August 1965 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. He is a director and writer, known for Transporter 3 (2008), Taken 3 (2014) and Colombiana (2011).Colombiana **** 2008- Writer
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Born in France in 1967, Laurent Tirard went to the US, to New York University, to study filmmaking and then became a script reader for the American company Warner Brothers.He returned to France to do journalism for the magazine Studio, during which time he interviewed 20 notable filmmakers which resulted in a book published in 2002. After leaving the magazine in 1997, Tirard wrote scripts, directed shorts, and then crossed over into feature length directing.Molière 2007- Director
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Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997) and Wolf Totem (2015). Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including four César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first film, Black and White in Color (1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film."7 years in Tibet" **** 2007- Director
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Emmanuel Mouret was born on 30 June 1970 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. He is a director and writer, known for The Things We Say, the Things We Do (2020), Lady J (2018) and The Art of Love (2011).- Writer
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Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is best know for his films Demonlover (2002), Something in the Air (2012), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) and Personal Shopper (2016).
Assayas is the son of French director/screenwriter Raymond Assayas, alias Jacques Rémy.
His directorial debut was in the short film Copyright (1979).Doubles vies (Non-fiction) 2018, The clouds of Sils Maria 2014, Summer Hours 2008, Paris je t' aime 2006 (Quartier des enfants rouges)- Director
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Frédéric Auburtin was born on 4 June 1962 in Marseille, France. He is a director and assistant director, known for Paris, I Love You (2006), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and Bike Me Up.Paris je t' aime (Segment "Quartier Latin") 2008, The Bridge (Un Pont entre deux Rives) 1999- Writer
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Benoît Delépine was born on 30 August 1958 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France. He is a writer and actor, known for Aaltra (2004), Delete History (2020) and Louise hires a contract killer (2008).Mammuth *** 2005- Actor
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Gustave Kervern was born on 27 December 1962 in Mauritius. He is an actor and writer, known for Delete History (2020), Louise hires a contract killer (2008) and Aaltra (2004).- Director
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Yann Samuell was born on 7 June 1965. He is a director and writer, known for Love Me If You Dare (2003), La guerre des Lulus (2022) and Jamais sans toi, Louna (2019).Love me if you dare (Jeux d' enfants) 2003- Director
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Patrice Leconte was born on 12 November 1947 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Ridicule (1996), La fille sur le pont (1999) and Man on the Train (2002).Monsieur Hire 1989, La veuve de Saint-Pierre *** 2000- Director
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Leos Carax made several short films and also wrote film criticism, then at the age of 24 years made a very strong first feature Boy Meets Girl (1984). The film played at the 1984 Cannes film festival and was a critical triumph. It paved the way for Carax's second feature Bad Blood (1986) (Bad Blood). That film was a giant step forward in the same direction that he was going in with his first film. Both films were visually stunning and focused on young love and also alienation. With his reputation and talent at its peak, he set out to make what seemed it seemed like would be another triumph. The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) (The Lovers on the Bridge) was the result of three long years of very difficult production; Carax spent a fortune building some of the sets and filming some mind-blowing sequences. Unfortunately, neither critics nor audiences favored what was a truly grand vision of the themes he dealt with in his first two films. Carax went into an a 8 year long exile, but finally returned with Pola X (1999). It was a departure from his other films and another critical flop.Mauvais Sang 1986- Actor
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Mathieu Kassovitz was born on 3 August 1967 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Amélie (2001), La haine (1995) and The Fifth Element (1997).- Director
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Gabriel Aghion was born on 30 December 1955 in Alexandria, Egypt. He is a director and writer, known for Pédale douce (1996), Avocat d'office (1994) and La scarlatine (1983).Belle Maman *** 1999- Cinematographer
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Bruno Nuytten is one of the most successful French cinematographers notable for his many collaborations with outstanding filmmakers. He was twice awarded the César for Best Cinematography: Barocco (1976) and So Long, Stooge (1983). Later he started to direct and is best known for his masterpiece Camille Claudel (1988) starring Isabelle Adjani in one of her most acclaimed performances. Nuytten was in long relationship with Adjani and they have a son."Camille Claudel" 1998- Director
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Denis Dercourt was born on 1 October 1964 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Lise et André (2000), The Page Turner (2006) and A Pact (2013).- Director
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Olivier Dahan was born on 26 June 1967 in La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is a director and writer, known for La Vie En Rose (2007), La vie promise (2002) and Sold.La Vie en Rose 2007- Director
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Patrice Chéreau was born on 2 November 1944 in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, France. He was a director and actor, known for Intimacy (2001), The Last of the Mohicans (1992) and Queen Margot (1994). He died on 7 October 2013 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Writer
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Michel Hazanavicius was born and raised in Paris, France. His grandparents were originally from Lithuania, but relocated to France in the 1920s. Hazanavicius attended art school, and moved on to work as a director for commercials and television projects. In 1999, he wrote and directed his first feature film Mes amis (1999), which featured his brother Serge Hazanavicius. His next feature film, spy parody, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) was a success at the French box office, and warranted a sequel, OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009), which was also a hit. Hazanavicius came to the attention of international audiences with the release of an almost wordless film, The Artist (2011), which starred his wife, Bérénice Bejo and OSS 117 star Jean Dujardin. The film was a critical and popular hit, garnering many major nominations and awards.The Artist 2011 - Jean Dujardin won 1st Role Oscar 2011- Actress
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Emmanuelle Bercot was born on 6 November 1967 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for My King (2015), Clement (2001) and Polisse (2011).La Tete Haute 2015- Director
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Laurent Bouhnik was born on 7 April 1961 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for 1999 Madeleine (1999), Sélect Hôtel (1996) and Zonzon (1998).Select Hotel 1996- Actress
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Fabienne Berthaud is known for Pieds nus sur les limaces (2010), Sky (2015) and A Bigger World (2019).Tom 2022, Pieds nus sur les limaces *** 2010- Writer
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Thomas Cailley was born on 29 April 1980 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France. He is a writer and director, known for The Animal Kingdom (2023), Love at First Fight (2014) and Ad Vitam (2018).Love at first fight **** 2017- Director
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Cédric Jimenez (born 26 June 1976) is a French film producer, film director and screenwriter. He is married to the screenwriter and journalist Audrey Diwan, with whom he has two children.
The film career of Cédric Jimenez starts through documentary means. In 2003, back in France after a long stay in New York, he puts his signature on 'Who's The Boss (Boss Of Scandalz Strategyz)', a documentary that follows the famous hip-hop music label which saw the group NTM hatch. He participated some years later to writing 'Scorpion' (signed Julien Seri), on the resurrection of a fallen Thai boxer, played by Clovis Cornillac, and continues to work with the actor in a science fiction film entitled 'Eden Log'.
It was only in 2012 that truly Cédric Jimenez started directing. He co-signs with Arnaud Duprey 'Aux yeux de tous', a feature film as original and ambitious, dipping a couple of terrorists (Mélanie Doutey and Olivier Barthelemy) in turmoil since a hacker hunted by keypad virtuoso. The film picks up an appointment at the International Thriller Film Festival of Beaune.
He takes his camera two years later (in 2014) to oppose Gilles Lellouche to Jean Dujardin in 'The Connection', crime fiction set in Marseille, amid international heroin trafficking, and inspired by the murder of Judge Pierre Michel. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.- Producer
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Jérôme Salle was born in 1971 in Paris. He is a producer and writer, known for The Odyssey (2016), Zulu (2013) and Anthony Zimmer (2005).Zulu (Cape of Fear) 2017- Writer
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Gilles Mimouni was born in 1956. He is a writer and director, known for Wicker Park (2004), The Apartment (1996) and Bandits (2011).L' Appartement **** 1986 (Vincent Cassel as Max Mayer, Monica Bellucci as Lisa)- Actor
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Franck Dubosc was born on 7 November 1963 in Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Rolling to You (2018), Camping (2006) and Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008). He has been married to Danièle since 19 June 2009. They have one child.Tout le monde debout ** 2018 (Among filming locations, Dame de Loudres Sainte Bernardette)- Writer
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Philippe Garrel was born on 6 April 1948 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for Regular Lovers (2005), I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (1991) and Liberté, la nuit (1984).Love for a day 2017- Actor
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Louis Garrel was born on 14 June 1983 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for The Dreamers (2003), Little Women (2019) and The Innocent (2022). He has been married to Laetitia Casta since 10 June 2017. They have one child. He was previously married to Golshifteh Farahani.- Actor
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Son of horse breeders, the young man spent his childhood in the countryside near Paris. In his youth, Guillaume wanted to be a horse-rider, and briefly followed a professional career in the sport. A bad fall broke his dreams, but is at the origin of his acting career, and success. After briefly studying acting, he started his career. Eclectic and moving, Canet is also a successful director, he has directed movies like Tell No One (2006) and Little White Lies (2010)
In 2015, after 20 years of career, he received his first important nod as an actor for playing a serial killer in Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (2014). He was nominated to Cesar Awards but eventually lost to Pierre Niney. Before that, he received a nod as Breakout Actor in 1998.Petits mouchoirs 2014- Director
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Pascal Chaumeil was born on 9 February 1961 in Paris, France. He was a director and assistant director, known for Heartbreaker (2010), The Fifth Element (1997) and Léon: The Professional (1994). He was married to Camille Lipmann. He died on 27 August 2015 in Paris, France.Un Plan Parfait 2013, Heartbreaker 2009- Director
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Christian Carion was born in a family of farmers in the North of France. Despite nursing a passion for films since he was 13, he travels a scientific path. After passing his baccalauréat, he joins an engineering school affiliated to the french ministry of agriculture, thus answering his family's wishes.
Yet the movies were never far away, and at a point he no longer could hide his wishes to make films. He rented a camera and began shooting films he himself describes as « uninteresting ». At that moment he met Christophe Rossignon. Both men decide there and then to start making movies. Christian Carion will be the film-maker and Christophe Rossignon the producer. And sometimes an actor as in the short film Carion shoots in 1999: Monsieur le député.
In 2001, Christian Carion directs his first feature film: Une hirondelle a fait le printemps (The girl from Paris), the story, an hommage to his upbringing, tells the meeting of a brooding farmer, Michel Serrault, and a parisian girl seeking the calm of the countryside, played by Mathilde Seigner. The movie is a hit, seducing over 2,4 millions of french moviegoers.
The success allows Carion to move on to a more ambitious project, Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas). A movie he had in mind since 1993. Screened in Cannes for the film festival in 2005, this historic movie depicts the fraternizations of warriors on the eve of Christmas during World War I. The movie, a huge public success, was nominated numerous times in the french Cesar and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
Two years later, he filmed another historic movie ; L'affaire Farewell''(Farewell), with Emir Kusturica and Guillaume Canet. A spy movie set in Russia and based on true events.
In 2014 he shot, on the roads of northern France, En mai, fais ce qu'il te plaît (Come what may). Another historical piece about the exodus of millions of people in may 1940, when France was falling apart and the inhabitants of northern France were fleeing the german troops. Written using numerous recollections from the northern people, the movie depicts the quest of a german dissident, looking for his son. The original music was composed by Enio Morricone.My Son *** 2017- Writer
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Emmanuel Finkiel was born on 30 October 1961 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is a writer and director, known for Voyages (1999), Madame Jacques sur la Croisette (1997) and Casting (2001).- Producer
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First known as one of the writers of the "Les Nuls" comic group (composed of Alain Chabat, Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette), he took part in this group and had a great success on French TV "Canal +". After 6 years on TV, "Les Nuls" decided to write and make their own film Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994), and split afterwards. Dominique Farrugia became the head of the cable channel "Comédie !", dedicated to all kinds of humor. Then, towards the end of 2001, he created "Cuisine TV", a channel dedicated to food. In February 2002, he became the program director of "Canal +". In 2003 , he ran his own production company Barbes Films and signed a production deal with Studio Canal. He also became Producer of TV Shows for several French TV channels as Canal Plus, TPS Star, M6, Direct 8, etc... In 2006, he also became director of a play "Et Après" at the "Théâtre de la Gaité-Montparnasse".Sous le meme toit 2017- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Michel Béna was born on 5 February 1950 in Algeria. He was an assistant director and director, known for Le ciel de Paris (1991), Viva la vie (1984) and Daniel endormi (1988). He died on 10 July 1991 in Paris, France.- Actress
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Julie Delpy was born in Paris, France, in 1969 to Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both actors.
She was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard's Detective (1985) at the age of fourteen. She has starred in many American and European productions since then, including Disney's The Three Musketeers (1993), Killing Zoe (1993), Three Colors: White (1994), and the "Before" series, alongside Ethan Hawke: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013).
She graduated from NYU's film school, and wrote and directed the short film Blah Blah Blah (1995), which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. She is a resident of Los Angeles.Lolo (Οιδιπόδειο Σύμπλεγμα) 2015- Producer
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Yann Demange was born in 1977 in Paris, France. He is a producer and director, known for '71 (2014), Lovecraft Country (2020) and Top Boy (2011).White boy Rick 2018- Director
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Jean-François Richet was born on 2 July 1966 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008) and État des lieux (1995).L' Empereur de Paris 2018- Director
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Arnaud Desplechin was born on 31 October 1960 in Roubaix, Nord, France. He is a director and writer, known for Kings & Queen (2004), The Sentinel (1992) and La vie des morts (1991).Ismael's ghosts ** 2017- Writer
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Audrey Diwan was born in 1980 in France. She is a writer and director, known for Happening (2021), The Connection (2014) and Just the Two of Us (2023). She is married to Cédric Jimenez. They have two children.Mais vous êtes fous (That's it!) 2019- Actress
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A tall, slim brunette with deep red puckered lips, Valérie Donzelli plays wonderfully clumsy, gawky, goofy girls, failed seductresses and successful charm freaks. She is also a noted film director, whose works explore very different registers, which she does not hesitate to mix whether comic, offbeat, sentimental, tragic, sometimes with little concern for the Cartesian spirit.
The granddaughter of painter-sculptor Dante Donzelli, Valérie was born in 1973 in Épinal, a town in the North-East of France. At 18 she went to Paris to study studied architecture, but after a while decided instead to become an actress, which was encouraged by a young performer she met, Jérémie Elkaïm, who later became her companion..
She soon landed a title role, that of a neurotic young mother in Sandrine Veysset's « Martha... Martha » (2001). The next parts in movies were only supporting roles (« Who Killed Bambi? », « The Best Day of My Life », « In His Hands ») but she was treated better by television, for instance in the series « Clara Sheller », in which she played Clara Sheller's best friend and which made her known to the general public..
But playing was not enough for Valerie Donzelli. She was just itching to write and direct (and produce, which she did later in her career). It was not long before she took action, often with the collaboration of her life partner Jérémie Elkaïm as her leading man and/or co-writer. After two shorts, she made a notable feature, « The Queen of Hearts » (2009), in which she imposed the character of the insecure Adèle, both comic and pathetic, who finds it hard to recover after a painful breakup. A breakup that took place in real life between Jérémie and her, although the ex-pair remained in good terms afterwards and went on working together, the most striking of their work together being unquestionably « War is Declared » (2011), which tells the heart-breaking story of how their young couple went through the terrible illness of their 18-month-old child. It was both a great critical and box-office success.
Less of a hit at the box office but interesting for their artistic options though were « Hand in Hand », (2012) the story of a a passionate love affair that literally sticks together a dance teacher and a young glass-worker as well as « Marguerite et Julien » (2015), a Romeo and Juliet-like story between... a brother and a sister.
Her last picture to-date, « Notre dame » features two stars, Paris's Notre Dame cathedral filmed a few months before the April 2019 fire that devastated the building and Valérie Donzelli herself, who more or less reprises the role of the clumsy, overwhelmed heroine of « The Queen of hearts », now turned an architect (doesn't it remind you of something?) - caught up in a reality that's beyond her.
Between the films she makes, those she plays in generally interesting films such as the hilarious Swiss comedy « Longwave » (2013) or the more serious « The White Knights » (2015).
A hyperactive creator and performer, Valérie Donzelli will certainly continue to amaze us, to amuse us and to make us think for yet a long time to comeDeclaration of war 2011- Writer
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Valérie Lemercier was born on 9 March 1964 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Visitors (1993), Aline (2020) and Monte Carlo (2011).Marie-Francine ** 2018- Actor
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Frédéric Beigbeder was born on 21 September 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for The Ideal (2016), The Day All Women Loved Me (2006) and Love Lasts Three Years (2011). He has been married to Lara Micheli since 12 April 2014. They have two children. He was previously married to Amélie Labrande, Diane de MacMahon and Delphine Valette.- Director
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Guillaume Senez was born on 6 July 1978 in Brussels, Belgium. He is a director and writer, known for Keeper (2015), Our Struggles (2018) and Walk with Kings (2020).Nos batailles *** 2018 BE- Actor
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Bruno Podalydès was born on 11 March 1961 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and director, known for Paris, I Love You (2006), The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005) and Versailles Rive-Gauche (1992).The sweet escape *** 2015- Actress
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Blandine Lenoir was born on 22 September 1973. She is an actress and writer, known for Angry Annie (2022), Rosa (2005) and Dans tes rêves (2004).Aurore (50 fois le printemps) ** 2017- Director
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Safy Nebbou was born on 27 April 1968 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. He is a director and writer, known for Le cou de la girafe (2004), Bad Seeds (2012) and Who You Think I Am (2019).Celle que vous croyez *** 2019- Writer
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Mikhaël Hers was born on 6 February 1975 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for Amanda (2018), The Passengers of the Night (2022) and Primrose Hill (2007).Amanda ♥ 2018- Writer
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Léonor Serraille was born in 1986 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She is a writer and director, known for Montparnasse Bienvenüe (2017), Mother and Son (2022) and Body (2016).Jeune femme (Montparnasse Bienvenue) 2017- Director
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Dominic Savage was born on 23 November 1962 in Margate, Kent, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for I Am... (2019), Close to You (2023) and Love + Hate (2005).The Escape ♥ 2018 starring Gemma Arterton, (similar to Our Struggles) ♥ 2018- Actress
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Isabelle Mergault was born on 11 May 1958 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for You Are So Beautiful (2005), Donnant donnant (2010) and The Merry Widow (2007).Enfin veuve 2007- Editor
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Claire Burger, editor and director, was born in Forbach in 1978. Specifying the name of the place where Claire began her life is anything but anecdotal insofar as this former industrial and mining town, located in the North-East of France, is emblematic of all those smokestack regions hard hit by the steel and coal crisis. In Forbach like in Wales, in Luxembourg and other places of the kind, losing one's job and losing the dignity that went with it caused whole populations to lose their bearings. It is Forbach, a forsaken place like many others, but one Claire Burger knows like the back of her hand, that she chose as the setting of almost all her films, whether short or long, and it is its otherwise undistinguished inhabitants that became her heroes and heroines. But before turning to direction, Claire Burger completed her secondary and college education. She then started her professional life as a local reporter for TV8 - Moselle Est (2000-2002) before turning the preproduction and editing of cartoon films. In 2005 she joined The FEMIS film school and left it three years later after graduating in editing. After that, Claire Burger first shared her activities between editing and filming before, as of 2010, concentrating on her own work as a director. Filmed in 2008, her first short, unsurprisingly titled "Forbach", was immediately awarded (at the 2009 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival). Which augured well for the fledgling filmmaker, who indeed became a regular prize-winner (César 2010 for the Best Short Film for "C'est gratuit pour les filles" and many, many others). In 2014, came the highlight of "Party Girl". Made in collaboration with Marie Amachoukeli (a FEMIS friend) and actor Samuel Theis, another native of the region, the low budget film brilliantly chronicled the days and nights of Angélique, an "unworthy old lady" who, although over sixty, would not say no to the pleasures of life. Critically acclaimed, awarded at the Cannes Film Festival (Golden Camera and Ensemble Acting prize), this unconventional work was also a surprise public success. Her second feature film, signed alone this time, "C'est ça l'amour" (Real Love), once again set in Forbach, is based on the director's personal experiences (her father who, having to support her teenage sister and herself, found it hard to accept his wife's departure of the marital home after twenty years of marriage. Always on the verge of breakdown, the character is played with poignant humanity by Bouli Lanners and with amazing accuracy by two sensational newcomers, Justine Lacroix and Sarah Henochsberg. One more time acclaimed by the critics and given important awards (such as the Director's Award at the Venice Film Festival), this beautiful film has unfortunately attracted fewer spectators than "Party Girl". Let us be certain nevertheless that time will tell: "Real Love" has all the qualities required to become a classic. Claire Burger, a name that matters, a name to remember.C'est ça l'amour *** 2018- Actor
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Dany Boon was born on 26 June 1966 in Armentières, Nord, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Welcome to the Sticks (2008), Joyeux Noel (2005) and R.A.I.D. Special Unit (2016).La famille 2018 ** ◊ more about this movie- Writer
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Arnaud Lemort is known for Dépression et des potes (2012), L'amour, c'est mieux à deux (2010) and Ibiza (2019).Ibiza ** (Ils se reposeront après les vacances) 2019- Director
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Catherine Corsini was born on 18 May 1956 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, France. She is a director and writer, known for The Divide (2021), Summertime (2015) and Three Worlds (2012).Un Amour impossible *** 2018- Director
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Vincent Lobelle is known for Les dents de la nuit (2008), Momo (2017) and Dans la peau d'un bipolaire (2014).Momo ** 2017- Writer
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Pascal Thomas was born on 2 April 1944 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for Les zozos (1973), La dilettante (1999) and Mercredi, folle journée! (2001).- Writer
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Katell Quillévéré was born on 30 January 1980 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She is a writer and director, known for Along Came Love (2023), Heal the Living (2016) and The Staple of News (2013).Un poison violent 2010, Suanne 2013 Abidjan, CI, lives in FR- Writer
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David Foenkinos was born on 28 October 1974 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for Delicacy (2011), Jealous (2017) and Fantasies (2021).Delicacy 2011 ◊ (A romantic comedy about love, fate and other delicacies)- Actor
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Olivier Marchal started taking acting lessons when he still was a police officer. He began his career in television, appearing in supporting parts or writing scripts for detective TV series. In 1989 when Yves Rénier resurrected his TV series Commissaire Moulin (1976) he became his partner as scriptwriter, series supervisor and sometimes actor. In 2000 he starred as Commandant Pierre Rivière in his own TV series Police district (2000), written by novelist Hugues Pagan, himself also a former police officer.- Director
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Olivier Dahan was born on 26 June 1967 in La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is a director and writer, known for La Vie En Rose (2007), La vie promise (2002) and Sold.- Actor
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Xavier Dolan was born on 20 March 1989 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for I Killed My Mother (2009), Tom at the Farm (2013) and Heartbeats (2010).- Writer
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Michel Leclerc was born on 24 April 1965 in Bures-sur-Yvette, Essonne, France. He is a writer and director, known for The Names of Love (2010), Fais pas ci, fais pas ça (2007) and Le poteau rose (2002).