Laurent Cantet

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Laurent Cantet in Barcelona (2006)

Laurent Cantet (born June 15, 1961 in Melle , Deux-Sèvres ) is a French film director , screenwriter and cameraman .

Cantet, the son of a teacher couple, began his training as a filmmaker at the Paris Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). He made his debut as a short film director in 1994 with Tous à la manif , in which a bartender would like to join a planned student demonstration. In the same year the work received the prestigious Jean Vigo Prize .

With banished volunteer put Cantet before 1997 his first feature film. The Frenchman's breakthrough as a director was only made possible by his second feature film Der Jobkiller (1999), in which the main actor Jalil Lespert works as an intern in his father's company to conduct a survey about the 35-hour week. The business administration student only realizes late that the work serves to restructure the company. Cantet received the César as best first work for Der Jobkiller .

Cantet's biggest hit to date was The Class (2008). The director's fifth feature film, a social study of a Parisian school class, won the 2008 Grand Prize at the 61st Cannes Film Festival with the Palme d'Or . Months later, the film was selected as the official French entry for the nomination for the best foreign language film at the 2009 Academy Awards , and in the same year it was nominated for the European Film Awards.

Cantets Retour à Ithaque caused a controversy at the Havana Film Festival in December 2014 when the film, shot in Cuba, was taken out of the program at short notice by the festival management without explanation. After the festival ended, a group of Cuban filmmakers publicly protested against what was perceived as censorship. The feature film is based on a literature by the writer Leonardo Padura .

In 2018 he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography

  • 1994: Tous à la manif (short film)
  • 1995: Jeux de plage (short film)
  • 1997: Voluntarily banished (Les sanguinaires)
  • 1999: The Job Killer (Ressources humaines)
  • 2001: Time out (L'emploi du temps)
  • 2005: To the south (Vers le sud)
  • 2008: The class (Entre les murs)
  • 2012: 7 days in Havana (7 días en la Habana) - episode "La Fuente"
  • 2013: Foxfire
  • 2014: Return to Ithaque
  • 2017: L'atelier

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Official shortlist of foreign language feature films with English titles (English; accessed October 22, 2008)
  2. ↑ Ute Evers: Film censorship in Cuba: Kubanische Perspektiven, in: taz.de from January 6, 2015, accessed on March 31, 2015
  3. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Cantet, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director, screenwriter, cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Melle