François Gédigier

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François Gédigier (* 1957 in Paris ) is a French film editor .

Life

François Gédigier was born in 1957 in Paris, the son of a textile seller and secretary. At the age of 17, he dropped out of school prematurely. At that time he was already working as an actor and assistant in a small theater in Montparnasse and starring in short films. In 1978 he was part of a rock band. Through a friend in the early 1980s he found a job as an assistant editor for Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte . Albert Jurgenson was one of his masters in editing at the time . From 1986 to 1991 Gédigier was mainly involved in sound editing, such as in Luc Besson's film Im Rausch der Tief (1988).

From 1991 he worked several times as a film editor with the directors Arnaud Desplechin and Patrice Chéreau . For Chéreau's films Die Bartholomäusnacht (1994) and Who Loves Me, Takes the Train (1998), Gédigier was twice nominated for the César in the category Best Editing . Under the direction of Lars von Trier , he made the montage of Dancer in the Dark (2000), for which he received the Danish film award Robert . Gédigier was also involved in several productions by Claude Berri , including the film comedies You are less alone together (2007) and The Little House Tyrant (2009). In 2012, director Brian De Palma entrusted Gédigier with the editing of his thriller Passion . For the biopic Barbara about the chanson singer Barbara Brodi by Mathieu Amalric , with whom he had already worked on the crime film Das Blaue Zimmer (2014), Gédigier received another nomination for César in 2018.

Filmography (selection)

Sound editing

  • 1986: Double messieurs
  • 1988: In the intoxication of the deep (Le grand bleu)
  • 1990: The prisoner of the desert (La captive du désert)
  • 1991: Abduction for love (Aux yeux du monde)

Film editing

Awards

  • 1995: Nomination for the César in the category Best Editing together with Hélène Viard for The Bartholomew Night
  • 1999: Nomination for the César in the category Best Editing for Who Loves Me, Takes the Train
  • 2001: Nomination for the Online Film Critics Society Award in the category Best Editing together with Molly Marlene Stensgaard for Dancer in the Dark
  • 2001: Robert in the Best Editing category together with Molly Marlene Stensgaard for Dancer in the Dark
  • 2018: Nomination for the César in the category Best Editing for Barbara

literature

  • François Gédigier . In: Roger Crittenden: Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing . Focal Press, 2006, ISBN 0-240-51684-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. lesgensducinema.com
personal data
SURNAME Gédigier, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris