Eugène Green

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Eugène Green (born June 28, 1947 in New York City ) is a French theater and film director , writer and essayist.

Life

Eugène Green, who speaks little about his early life story, began his career as a lecturer in philosophy and as a painter . At the end of the 1970s he founded the theater group Théâtre de la sapience in Paris . Its aim is to revive the theater traditions of the Baroque . It wasn't until the beginning of the 2000s that he turned to cinema. In 2001 he made his debut film Toutes les nuits without any cinema-specific training . In addition to his work for the cinema, he also publishes on other topics, such as baroque theater, the theory of cinema and writes prose and essays .

Awards

Cinematic work

In his three feature films Toutes les nuits , Le monde vivant and Le pont des arts , Eugène Green has created a style of his own that has obvious parallels, especially with the work of Robert Bresson and Yasujirō Ozu . Its most conspicuous component is a mostly fixed camera, which captures the dialogues written in very stylized language in the shot-reverse shot . The acting of the actors is very reserved and closely resembles the Bresson tone. Again and again, Green takes up mystical and baroque themes that have also preoccupied him in his previous artistic activities. His film Le fils de Joseph was shown at the 2016 Berlinale. According to the film critic Kirsten Dietrich, it is "fascinating" how the film tries to "translate the power of the religious into the cultural, so to speak".

Filmography

  • 2001: Toutes les nuits with Alexis Loret, Christelle Prot and Adrien Michaux
  • 2002: Le nom du feu (short film) with Christelle Prot and Alexis Loret
  • 2003: Le Monde vivant with Christelle Prot, Adrien Michaux, Alexis Loret and Laurène Cheilan
  • 2004: Le Pont des Arts with Natacha Régnier, Denis Podalydès and Adrien Michaux
  • 2006: Les signes (short film) with Christelle Prot, Mathieu Amalric, Achille Trocellier, Marin Charvet
  • 2009: Correspondances (short film) with Leonor Baldaque, Francisco Mozos, Diogo Dória
  • 2009: La religieuse portugaise with Leonor Baldaque, Francisco Mozos, Diogo Dória, Ana Moreira, Beatriz Batarda
  • 2014: The Light of Wisdom (La Sapienza) with Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot, Ludovico Succio, Arianna Nastro
  • 2015: Faire la parole (documentary)
  • 2016: Le fils de Joseph with Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Régnier, Fabrizio Rongione

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Religion as a topic at the Berlinale - Is Faith Home or Fetter? , Deutschlandradio Kultur, February 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Green, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theater and film director, writer and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City