Arnaud Desplechin

Arnaud Desplechin , born Arnaud Robert Jean Andre Marie Desplechin the October 31st 1960 with Roubaix (Northern, France), is a Cinéaste French.

Biography

He is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, domiciled with Croix close to Roubaix.

He has a brother, Fabrice Desplechin, diplomat and actor in several of his films, and two sisters: the novelist Marie Desplechin and the scenario writer Raphaëlle Desplechin. He lived several months with the actress Marianne Denicourt with the beginning of the year 1990.

Decided to make cinema since his youth, Arnaud Desplechin follows the courses of cinema of the Université Paris III (of which those of Serge Daney and Pascal Kané) then integrates IDHEC into its second attempt, and in graduate fate of the Réalisation section and Taken of sight in 1984. He meets with the IDHEC several of his future collaborators of which Pascale Ferran, Noémie Lvovsky and Eric Rochant. For this period when Desplechin tests difficulties of completing its films of schooling: Punchinello and the machine to code , in 1983 then the Crowning of the world , in 1984. He then discovers the work of another impassioned of Jean Ray; the realizer Alain Resnais, whose Desplechin will say later that it is " the scenario writer who touched more violemment" , before being selected for the Week of criticism to the Cannes festival. The Prix Jean-Vigo of short-measuring to him is decreed the same year.

The same year, Pascal Caucheteux creates his company Why Not Productions, and finances the Sentinel , the first project of feature film of Desplechin. The film is Co-writing with Pascale Ferran, Emmanuel Salinger and Noémie Lvovsky. The young scenario writer takes again part of the team of the Life of dead the , and collaborates for the first time with Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni and László Szabó. His/her Fabrice brother is also present in the distribution. The film, whose topic points out Muriel, or the time of a return of Resnais, draft of the phantoms of a war passed, here the Cold war and conflicts European. The main character, the medical student Mathias Barrel, played by Emmanuel Salinger, finds himself implied in a business of espionage after having met an former prisoner of war in a train, and having found a head reduced in his luggage. The film is acclaimed by criticism and is selected in the festivals. It is in particular in competition with Cannes in 1992 and is named several times at the Césars for best first film, the best original screenplay and the better most promising young actor, than gains Emmanuel Salinger, before also obtaining the Prix Michel-Simon 1993.

At the end of 1994 Desplechin starts the turning of its second feature-length film, Co-writing with Emmanuel Bourdieu, How I disputed… (" my life sexuelle") . It is Mathieu Amalric who interprets this time the alter ego of Desplechin, an academic named Paul Dédalus, sailing between several conquests: Sylvia (Marianne Denicourt), Esther (Emmanuelle Devos), and Valerie (Jeanne Balibar). The presence of film to the Cannes festival and César in 1996, as its critical success assoient Desplechin like an important author of the years 1990. Certain journalists speak then about " Desplechin" generation; to describe the young French cinema.

In 1997, Arnaud Desplechin is on the initiative, with Pascale Ferran, of Proclamation of the 66 scenario writers calling with civil disobedience against the Debré laws criminalisant the people who lodge without-papers.

In 2000, Desplechin Co-writing with Emmanuel Bourdieu an adapted scenario of a news of Arthur Symons. Esther Kahn is turned in English and sticks in the passing at the adulthood, through the discovery of the theater and the love of an English young girl resulting from an Jewish family. Summer Phoenix interprets the title role, at the sides of Ian Holm and László Szabó. Fabrice Desplechin and Emmanuelle Devos are them also present, at the sides of a rich person Anglo-Saxon distribution. The film is received like a homage to the work of François Truffaut because it deals with an education, like the wild Child (1969), that it is turned in English, like Fahrenheit 451 (1966) and the Two English ones and the continent (1971), and also because it uses filmic forms of the New wave and more particularly of the cinema of Truffaut like closings with the iris or the tablecloths of music.

Three years later, Desplechin prepares a diptych around the adaptation of In the company of the men of Edward Bond with Nicolas Saada. The first film must be called Répétitions of " In the company of the hommes" and being made up with 70% of video turned during the repetitions and with 30% of images of film itself, and the second film By playing " In the company of the hommes" and being made up of video images and silver images in the proportions opposite of first film. Between the realization of each of two films, Desplechin envisages to turn of it a third, then titrated Kings without array, queen without arena . To final, the turning of third film is deferred to 2004, and Desplechin finishes successively, after having presented a preliminary version of its work to Cannes in 2003, the films Léo, by playing " In the company of the hommes" which is mainly into silver, then Unplugged, by playing " In the company of the hommes" which takes again the repetitions turned out of FD. In Léo , Sami Bouajila interprets the character of Léonard Jurieu, wire adoptive of an industrialist, manufacturer of weapons, played by Jean-Paul Roussillon, which while deciding to free itself from his/her father to carry out his own businesses will ruin it. Desplechin interferes the screen Edward Bond with that of Hamlet, by introducing in particular into the history the character of Ophélie, interpreted by Anna Mouglalis. Léo leaves in only one room, with the Cinéma of the Pantheon in Paris, on January 28th, 2004, after being diffused on ARTE the day before. Unplugged will not be visible before the exit in DVD of film.

This same year, Desplechin completes Kings and Reine , Co-writing with Roger Bohbot. The film crosses the courses, burlesque for one and tragedy for the other of two former lovers, Ismaël, a musician nevrotic played by Mathieu Amalric, and Nora, interpreted by Emmanuelle Devos, which passes film to the bedside of his/her dying father, reconsidering to the father of his child, died committed suicide in front of his eyes of the years earlier. The film marks also the second collaboration of Desplechin with Jean-Paul Roussillon, Hippolyte Girardot, and the first with Catherine Deneuve, which plays here a psychiatrist dealing with the case of Ismaël. The film is acclaimed by criticism and is an important public success. Kings and Reine receive several nominations and of many prices, of which the Louis-Delluc in 2004, and the César of the best actor for Mathieu Amalric the following year. Desplechin is violently taken with part at the exit of film by Marianne Denicourt which shows it to have used elements of its private life to write Kings and Reine . In 2005, it publishes in the editions Stock evil genius , with the journalist Judith Perrignon, where it describes her meeting with a realizer without scruples named Arnold Duplancher. It attacks finally Desplechin in justice in 2006, for invasion of privacy, claiming 200.000 euros of damages to him. It is déboutée on April 3rd, 2006.

Desplechin starts in 2007 two films having milked with the family. The first, the Aimee , sees Desplechin filming his/her father, his Fabrice brother and his nephews in the family home of Roubaix at the time when it is on the point of being sold. They re-sift the memory of the grandmother of Arnaud Desplechin, dead two years after the birth of his/her father. It is the second incursion into the documentary one of the scenario writer after the experiment around In the company of the men . The film was presented to the Mostra of Venice in September 2007, in Documentary the Horizons section, where it received autonomous Province of Thirty the price of best documentary, before leaving on November 14th, 2007 to the Cinema the Pantheon.

The second film, a Tale of Christmas , takes again by enriching it the groundwork by the Life of the dead , by showing a meeting of family in Roubaix, around the mother, Junon (Catherine Deneuve), reached of a cancer, which a Clerc's Office of his/her son Henri (Mathieu Amalric) can only save, “banished” of the family of the years earlier by his/her sister Elizabeth (Anne Consigny). The distribution also includes/understands Melvil Poupaud, and several recurring actors of the cinema of Desplechin of which Jean-Paul Roussillon, Emmanuelle Devos, Hippolyte Girardot and Chiara Mastroianni. a Tale of Christmas is currently in post-production, with an exit into the room planned for May 2008, if required presenting film to the Cannes festival.

Desplechin prepares in parallel KammerSpiel , a film of fiction according to Tromperie and Contrevie of Philip Roth. Turning is envisaged in 2008 with Prague, London and New York with an international distribution.

Catalog of films

Rewards

Arnaud Desplechin saw his films selected in many Cinema festivals since the beginning of his career. Between Life of dead the in 1991 and Léo, by playing " in the Company of the hommes" … in 2003, its films were presented in competition or in parallel selections of the Cannes festival. Kings and Reine and the Aimee were presented for the first time to the Mostra of Venice. Here the list of the principal rewards decreed with the work of Desplechin:

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