Emmanuel Schotté

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Emmanuel Schotté (* 1958 ) is a French actor . The amateur actor became known to a wide audience through his first and so far only role in the film L'Humanité (1999).

Life

Feature film debut and triumph in Cannes

The unemployed ex-soldier from Bailleul-Nord-Est , in northern France, had served in the Air Force for eighteen years and had no acting experience when he was discovered in 1999 by the French director Bruno Dumont . Dumont was preparing his second feature film L'Humanité at the time, after he had already received critical praise for his award-winning first work La vie de Jésus , a social study of a group of unemployed youth in a provincial town in northern France. As in his debut film, L'Humanité is set in Bailleul and was exclusively cast with amateur actors. The film tells the story of Detective De Winter, a loner in his thirties who believes in the good in people. After the accidental death of his family, he lives with his mother in Flanders and his view of the world begins to falter due to the brutal murder of an eleven-year-old girl. At the same time, De Winter is unhappily in love with his neighbor Domino (played by Séverine Caneele ), a factory worker who, however, prefers sex with her boyfriend.

The film, which, like all of Dumont's works, combines sex and violence with the existential speechlessness of human relationships, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in May 1999 . L'Humanité received mixed reviews, but surprised at the final award ceremony. While Dumont's film had to compete for the Palme d'Or the drama Rosetta Belgian director duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne admit defeat, but was the second most important award, the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Award for SÉVERINE CANEELE awarded. Emmanuel Schotté received the film festival's best actor award for the role of Pharaon De Winter .

End of the film career

The decision by jury president David Cronenberg to award main prizes to smaller film productions and nameless actors was a scandal at the time and was commented on with whistles from the audience at the award ceremony. Schotté had asserted himself against such renowned colleagues as Forest Whitaker ( Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai ) and the later Oscar- nominated Richard Farnsworth ( A true story - The Straight Story ) . In Germany, the film opened almost a year later in cinemas, where Schotté's acting performance also moved into the focus of critics. With the French, one is not sure whether it is actually about acting or a simple personification, according to the daily newspaper , since Schotté received the Cannes Acting Award “like a machine” as in the film. The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote in its film review that you rarely see such deep dismay as Schotté exudes.

The sensitive Emmanuel Schotté could not handle the triumph in Cannes. The 41-year-old retired to his house in Hazebrouck with his young wife, whom he married ten months before the film was shot . In spite of the great media coverage about him, he remained unemployed and, unlike his film colleague Séverine Caneele, did not continue his acting career. Schotté is still in contact with Bruno Dumont, whose family lives in Bailleul.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Jean Valbay: Les deux prix d'interprétation de Cannes ont repris leur vie simple dans le Nord . In: Le Figaro , May 26, 1999, L'Actualité
  2. ↑ cf. Trailer: New in the cinema . In: Focus , April 7, 2007, issue 15, culture, p. 68
  3. ↑ a b cf. Royer, Philippe: Ces inconnus qu'une palm aura sortis du lot… . In: La croix, July 1, 2000
  4. ↑ cf. Brigitte Werneburg: victory of paternalism . In: the daily newspaper, May 25, 1999, p. 16
  5. ↑ cf. Susanne Mahnken: The light is off, the questions remain . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, April 6, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Schotté, Emmanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1958