Isild Le Besco

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Isild Le Besco (2012)

Isild Le Besco (born November 22, 1982 in Paris ) is a French film actress , screenwriter and film director .

family

Her mother, the French actress, architect and author Catherine Belkhodja , is descended from Kabyle-speaking Berbers from Algeria . Like her father, linguist and classical guitarist, Isild Le Besco is committed to belonging to the Breton people . She grew up bilingual, French and Breton . Your paternal grandmother is Vietnamese . Her sister Maïwenn , her half-brother Kolia Litscher, her half-sister Léonor Graser and her niece Shana Besson (* 1993, daughter of Maïwenn Le Besco and Luc Besson ) are also active actors . Her brother Jowan Le Besco is an actor, cameraman and director.

Life

Isild Le Besco made her first film appearance at the age of eight with her sister Maïwenn in the film Lacenaire (1990). From 1997 to 2006 she played in around 30 feature films and television films.

Her big breakthrough as an actress came with the short film La Puce (shot in 1998, premiered in 1999, directed by Emmanuelle Bercot ). In it she plays (15 years old in real life) a 14-year-old girl who is courted by a man around 40 (played by Olivier Marchal ) and who, after initially being rejected, finally has her first sexual experiences with him. Her mother Catherine Belkhodja (as her film mother), her brother Jowan Le Besco and her half-siblings Kolia Litscher and Léonor Graser also star in the film. La Puce won 2nd prize in the Cinéfondation category at the 1999 Cannes International Film Festival . In March 2005, the film was shown on the Franco-German television channel Arte , in the German version under the title Little Heart , and thus made known to the German audience for the first time.

In addition to the aforementioned film La Puce , Isild Le Besco was directed by Emmanuelle Bercot in Les Vacances (1997), Le Choix d'Élodie (1999), Quelqu'un vous aime (2003) and Backstage (2005, alongside Emmanuelle Seigner ) to see.

Under director Benoît Jacquot , she starred in the films Sade (2000), Adolphe (2002, alongside Isabelle Adjani ), À tout de suite (2004), Princesse Marie (2004), L'Intouchable (2006) and Au fond des bois (2010 ). Isild Le Besco was nominated for the 2001 César Best Young Actress for her role as Emilie de Lancris . The television film Princesse Marie , a Franco-Austrian co-production, was released under the German title Marie und Freud . Catherine Deneuve plays Princess Marie Bonaparte, Heinz Bennent Sigmund Freud. Isild Le Besco can be seen as Eugénie Bonaparte, Jowan Le Besco as Pierre Bonaparte. Anne Bennent and Sebastian Koch also play the leading roles .

Le Besco received her second nomination for César as best young actress in 2002 for her role in the film Roberto Succo (2001, director: Cédric Kahn ).

Several films with Isild Le Besco were shown at the Cannes International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival ; for L'intouchable (2006) she received the Marcello Mastroianni Prize . The film Camping sauvage (2005) with her in the female lead was shown at the Berlinale in February 2006 .

Isild Le Besco wrote her first screenplay at the age of 16. About four years later it became the film Demi-tarif (2003), for which she also directed and was responsible for editing . At the film festival Crossing Europe in Linz 2005 Demi-tarif won the jury award . In September 2007, her second directorial work Charly came to French cinemas. Here, too, she works as a screenwriter and director. As in Demi-tarif , she used her half-brother Kolia Litscher as one of the main actors and her brother Jowan Le Besco as cameraman in this production. Her third Film Bas-Fonds was shown in the competition at the Locarno Film Festival 2010.

In the French presidential election campaign in 2002 she supported the candidate of the Socialist Party , Lionel Jospin .

reception

In 2014, the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art described Isild Le Besco as “one of the most radical filmmakers in contemporary French cinema”.

At the beginning of her career, Isild Le Besco often played young individualists or outsiders who break out of everyday life in search of their personal path and get into problematic love relationships. In the course of her career, the female roles she played developed further: “Girls who break out of boring bourgeois homes, who get on the wrong track for the sake of their first love and who are confronted with themselves at the side of egomaniacal desperados, seemed like them To fascinate actress for a while. But then she took on more and more roles that went further and more directly took the side of the maladjusted, offensive, anarchic girls. "

Her work as a director is radically “uncompromising”, which also characterizes the characters she has often embodied as an actress. “Le Besco's own films, none of which have been shown in German cinemas so far, deal with childhood and youth beyond social order. What makes the films really radical is the fact that they do not describe the “other” lives of children and adolescents as an outbreak and as a reaction, but place it in the cinematic space as an autonomous system. ”Her film Bas-Fonds in particular is disturbing and at the same time impresses with an unusual story about a ménage à trois between three women who lead a life beyond the social norm in a neglected apartment.

Filmography

Director

  • 2003: Half price (demi tariff) (also screenplay and acting)
  • 2005: Le marais (documentary)
  • 2007: Charly (also screenplay and acting)
  • 2007: Enfances - episode film; in the episode Le regard d'un enfant (also acting)
  • 2010: Bas Fund
  • 2011: Bette Davis (TV short film)
  • 2014: Ponts de Sarajevo (short film / omnibus films)
  • 2017: La belle occasion (also screenplay and acting)

actress

Isild Le Besco (2012)
  • 1990: Lacenaire - Director: Francis Girod
  • 1996: La puce - Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
  • 2000: Les filles ne savent pas nager - Director: Anne-Sophie Birot
  • 2000: Adieu Babylone - Director: Raphaël Frydman
  • 2000: Sade - Directed by Benoît Jacquot
  • 2001: Roberto Succo - Director: Cédric Kahn
  • 2002: Un moment de bonheur - Director: Antoine Santana
  • 2002: La repentie - Director: Laetitia Masson
  • 2002: Adolphe - Director: Benoît Jacquot
  • 2003: Half price (demi tariff) (also director)
  • 2003: Le coût de la vie - Director: Philippe Le Guay
  • 2004: Here and now ( À tout de suite ; German also: Die Träumerin) - Director: Benoît Jacquot
  • 2004: Marie and Freud (Princesse Marie) - Director: Benoît Jacquot
  • 2005: Backstage - Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
  • 2005: Sweet Milk (La ravisseuse) - Director: Antoine Santana
  • 2006: Camping sauvage - directed by Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri
  • 2006: L'intouchable - Director: Benoît Jacquot
  • 2006: U - directed by Serge Elissalde and Grégoire Solotareff
  • 2007: Die Unsanfte (Pas douce) - Director: Jeanne Waltz
  • 2007: Enfances - episode film; in the episode Le regard d'un enfant (also director and screenplay)
  • 2007: Charly (also director)
  • 2009: Emma & Marie (Je te mangerais) - Director: Sophie Laloy
  • 2009: The Good Heart (The Good Heart) - Director: Dagur Kári
  • 2010: Deep in the woods (Au fond des bois) - Director: Benoît Jacquot
  • 2014: A New Friend (Une nouvelle amie) - Director: François Ozon
  • 2014: Le dos rouge - Director: Antoine Barraud
  • 2015: My one, my everything (Mon Roi) - Director: Maïwenn
  • 2017: La belle occasion (also director and screenplay)

Short films

  • 1989: Cinématon # 995 - Director: Gérard Courant
  • 1991: Place des Vosges - Director: Catherine Belkhodja
  • 1997: Anniversaires - Director: Rosette
  • 1997: Kub valium - Director: Marine Ledu
  • 1997: Les vacances - Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
  • 1997: Coquillettes - Director - Joséphine Flasseur
  • 1998: Les smis de Ninon - Director: Rosette
  • 2000: Des Anges - Director: Julien Leloup
  • 2003: Quelqu'un vous aime - Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
  • 2003: Dans la forêt noire - Director: Joséphine Flasseur
  • 2016: Cinématon # 2944 - Director: Gérard Courant

Awards (selection)

  • 2000: Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema - Best Actress Award
  • 2001/2002: Nomination: César Awards - Most Promising Actress
  • 2004: Prix spécial of the jury of the European Film Film Festival in Angers for demi-tariff
  • 2004: Prix Procirep of the European Film Film Festival in Angers for demi-tariff
  • 2004: Special price of the jury of the Séoul film festival for demi-tariff
  • 2005: Crossing Europe Award - Best Fiction Film for Demi Tarif
  • 2006: Marcello Mastroianni Prize for Best Acting Performance at the Venice Film Festival
  • 2008: Crossing Europe Award - Best Fiction Film for Charly
  • 2010: Nomination: Main Prize Golden Leopard of the Locarno International Film Festival for Bas-fonds

Web links

Commons : Isild Le Besco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arsenal: Wild Child - Films by and with Isild Le Besco. In: www.arsenal-berlin.de. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Lenssen, Claudia: retrospective on Isild Le Besco in the Arsenal cinema: Myth in close-up. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Buss, Esther: The tenderness of canned ravioli. In: jungle-world.com. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Buss, Esther: The tenderness of canned ravioli. In: jungle-world.com. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Le Besco, Isild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film actress, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris