Jean-Marie Poiré

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Jean-Marie Poiré in the summer of 2015 while filming The Visitors: Storming the Bastille

Jean-Marie Poiré (born April 10, 1945 in Paris ) is a French film director , screenwriter and film producer . Specializing in comedies , he was, among other things, responsible as a director and author for the hit film The Visitors (1993).

Life

Poiré is the son of the film producer Alain Poiré . He began his film career as assistant director to Claude Autant-Lara for the French film Une femme en blanc se révolte and for Édouard Molinaro for the film Oscar . He began as a screenwriter in several films by Michel Audiard .

His first directorial works were Les petits câlins (1978), Retour en force (1980) and Les hommes préfèrent les grosses (1981). In 1982 he put the theater troupe's comedy Le Splendid Da is dreading Santa Claus as a film that is now considered a cult film. His next film with the Ensemble des Splendids, Papy fait de la résistance from 1983, was also a success.

After the comedies Twist Again in Moscow (1986) and Operation Corned Beef (1991), the film The Visitors came out in 1993 , in the original Les Visiteurs . The film, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier as time travelers from the Middle Ages, became one of the greatest audiences in French cinema. It had three sequels: The Knights of Time - In Search of the Sacred Tooth in 1998, Just Visiting in 2001, and The Visitors: Storming the Bastille in 2016 .

Another film by Jean-Marie Poiré is The Guardian Angels from 1995, with Gérard Depardieu and Christian Clavier.

Filmography as a director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr
  2. ↑ Éric Maigret: Une métaphore A Geometry variable . In: Philippe Le Guern (ed.): Les cultes médiatiques: Culture fan et œuvres cultes. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015 ISBN 2753537402
  3. ↑ Olivier Mongin: Les Ch'tis: quelques raisons d'un succès Retrieved on November 1, 2017
  4. ↑ Les entrées en France.Retrieved November 1, 2017


personal data
SURNAME Poiré, Jean-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French screenwriter, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris