Alain Raoust

Alain Raoust (born June 2, 1966 in Nice ) is a French film director .

Life

Raoust comes from the Rhône-Alpes region . He began his career as an assistant to the director Jean-Pierre Thorn . At the end of the 1980s, he began studying at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis / Vincennes). First experimental films were made, which found their place, for example, in the distribution of the Paris organization LightCone, later medium and long feature films. Raoust teaches film directing at the University of Paris / St. Denis and occasionally at the FEMIS film school.

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After his early short films he turned to the mid-90s the narrative feature film about. Important influences came from directors such as Philippe Garrel , Abbas Kiarostami and Sharunas Bartas . In 1999 he won the French short film festival in Pantin with his almost one hour long film La Vie Sauve . In calm images and sensitive character portraits, the film tells of the last days in Paris of a young Yugoslav who voluntarily returned from several years of exile in France after the end of the civil war in her country. The first feature film, La Cage , followed in 2001 , the story of a young murderer who returns to her home village after the end of her prison sentence. La Cage won several awards at the Locarno Festival in 2002, including from the International Film Critics' Jury (FIPRESCI). In 2007, L'été India followed after a script written together with the writer Olivier Adam . The film, set in the barren landscape of the French Alps, tells of the difficulties of an older man (Johann Leysen) with an unsteady past, coming to terms with his life between a teenage daughter, girlfriend ( Johanna ter Steege ) and his odd jobs . At the 25th French Film Festival in Tübingen in 2008 , Alain Raoust's work was shown completely in Germany for the first time as part of a homage . After a long break, his feature film Rêves de jeunesse premiered in the ACID series at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

• 1992: Attendre le navire (medium length)
• 1994: Muette est la girouette (short)
• 1998: La Vie Sauve (medium length)
• 2001: La Cage (feature film)
• 2006: L'été indien (feature film)
• 2019: Rêves de jeunesse (feature film)

Web links

• Alain Raoust in the Internet Movie Database (English)