Jacques Audiard

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Jacques Audiard at the 2015 Cannes International Film Festival

Jacques Audiard ( ʒak od'jaʁ ; born April 30, 1952 in Paris ) is a French film director and screenwriter . He gained fame in his home country through genre films such as lip service (2001), The Wilde Beat of My Heart (2005) or A Prophet (2009).

Life

Education and success as a screenwriter

Jacques Audiard was born in Paris in 1952 as the son of the well-known screenwriter and director Michel Audiard . As a teenager, he first resisted following in his father's footsteps. Audiard began studying literature and philosophy at the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris to become a teacher. During his semester break, however, he came into contact with the medium of film as an intern at a film editor . Audiard then gave up his studies and gradually began to gain a foothold in the film business as an assistant editor, for example in 1976 in Roman Polański's psychological thriller The Tenant or Patrice Chereau's drama The Last Edition (1978). At the same time the nephew of a film producer devoted himself to theater work and adapted literary works for stage productions.

In the early 1980s, Jacques Audiard successfully followed in his father's footsteps as a screenwriter. In 1983 he and Michel Audiard wrote the screenplay for the psychological thriller Das Auge , an adaptation of Marc Behm 's novel of the same name. In the film by Claude Miller , with Michel Serrault , Isabelle Adjani and Stéphane Audran in the leading roles, the eponymous hero, an aged detective, believes he recognizes his deceased daughter in the beautiful murderess Catherine . The eye received critical acclaim and a year later it was nominated for five Césars , the most important French film award. This was followed by scripts for film productions by Édouard Niermans , Josiane Balasko and Michel Blanc . In addition to his work as a screenwriter, Audiard also tried his hand at this time as a director of short films.

First work as a director

Due to the success of his scripts, Jacques Audiard was able to make his first own film in 1994. In the thriller When Men Fall , Jean Yanne plays the leading role of Simon , a salesman approaching sixty who investigates the murder of his friend, a police officer. Audiard's directorial debut, in other roles with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz , was received positively by the critics and won three Césars in 1995, including in the category of best first work . With the young Matthieu Kassovitz in the lead role, the director also shot his second film Life: A Lie , an adaptation of a novel by Jean-François Deniau . In the drama, the protagonist Albert uncovered family secrets at the end of the Second World War . His father was not a war hero and his mother sympathized with the German soldiers. With Life: A Lie , Audiard was able to successfully build on its first work. The production won awards at the Stockholm and Valladolid international film festivals and was nominated for six Césars in 1997, including the first nomination for Jacques Audiard for Best Director.

Audiard's third feature film followed only five years after Life: A Lie . In between he shot the short film Norme française (1998) and wrote the screenplay for Marshall's award-winning comedy Schöne Venus , which made Audrey Tautou a star in France in 1999 , together with director Tonie Marshall and Marion Vernoux . In 2001, the thriller lip service followed , based on an original script by Audiard and Tonino Benacquista . Here Vincent Cassel plays the newly released thief Paul who enters into a liaison with a hearing-impaired secretary (played by Emmanuelle Devos ) and cheats on a group of criminals. With the thriller, Jacques Audiard was again a success with critics and audiences and the work was nominated a total of nine times for the César in 2002, including in the categories of Best Film, Director and Screenplay. Although Jean-Pierre Jeunet's internationally acclaimed comedy The Fabulous World of Amélie paid lip service in the main categories , the work won three Césars, including the award for Best Screenplay and Emmanuelle Devos for Best Actress. In 2005 Jacques Audiard repeated the collaboration with Tonino Benacquista and wrote the screenplay for The Wilde Beat My Heart , a remake of James Toback's B-Movie Finger - Tender and Brutal from 1978. The work in which Romain Duris wrote the musically gifted Tom mimt, who has to weigh up between a criminal career in the Parisian real estate scene and that as a concert pianist, represents the greatest success of the French director and screenwriter to date. Audiard was acclaimed by international critics for its darker and more realistic production than the original France one million viewers in the cinemas. In 2006 the drama received ten nominations for the César and was able to prevail in eight categories. Audiard received the trophies for best film, director and best adapted screenplay.

Success with "A Prophet" and "Demons and Miracles"

Audiard with Niels Arestrup (left) and Tahar Rahim (right) at the Cannes Film Festival (2009)

Jacques Audiard is now considered a master of the French thriller, although he himself says that he does not make any genre films . For his realistic, gloomy productions, he enjoys international respect from his directing colleagues. The filmmaker, who in his homeland as a potential successor to directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) and Henri-Georges Clouzot is traded (1907-1977), was in 2006, his fifth feature film Les Disparus (dt .: "The Missing " ) stage. The thriller should establish the third collaboration between Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista and focus on a Parisian mother (played by Juliette Binoche ) who tracks down the mysterious disappearance of her 14-year-old daughter. The project failed, however, and three years later the director completed the prison film A Prophet , which was rated by French critics as the director's best film to date. The story of a young orphan boy of Maghrebian descent (played by Tahar Rahim ), who becomes an influential criminal with the help of the Corsican mafia , won the jury's grand prize in the competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in 2009 . A few months later, A Prophet was selected as the official French contribution for the nomination for the best foreign language film at the Academy Awards 2010 and in 2010 it was awarded the César in nine categories , including best film, best director and original screenplay.

After the great success of A Prophet , Audiard worked again with screenwriter Thomas Bidegain on The Taste of Rust and Bones (2012). Audiard's sixth feature film as a director is based on short stories by the Canadian writer Craig Davidson and is about a homeless boxer and father (played by Matthias Schoenaerts ) who meets an orca trainer ( Marion Cotillard ) in southern France who loses both lower legs in an accident at work. In 2012 Audiard received his third invitation to the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival for his drama . According to the company, the film was an attempt to create something completely different, "a love story full of light and space," said Audiard. The taste of rust and bones earned him the César for best adapted screenplay in 2013 and another nomination for directing.

In 2015, Audiard was invited to the competition at the Cannes Film Festival for the fourth time with Demons and Miracles , where it won the main prize of the festival for the first time with the Palme d'Or. In the film, Jesuthasan Antonythasan can be seen as the eponymous hero, who fled the civil war chaos of Sri Lanka to France. He is accompanied by a young woman (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and a little girl with whom he is founding a pseudo family in order to be able to calculate better chances in the asylum procedure. Arriving in a social housing estate in Paris, Dheepan becomes a caretaker, but soon has to fight off the gang leader Brahim (Vincent Rottiers). His experience, which he apparently gained as a member of the Tamil Tigers rebel militia, helps him in this . Audiard claims to have been inspired to demons and miracles by Sam Peckinpah's thriller Who Sows Violence (1971) , of which he had originally planned a remake. It was the first feature film for both Jesuthasan Antonythasan, who himself came to France as a refugee via Thailand and is now a writer, and for Kalieaswari Srinivasan.

In addition to his work for the film, Jacques Audiard also directed several music videos, including the clip Comme elle vient by the French rock band Noir Désir , in which the deaf and mute interpret the lyrics in sign language. The opening sequence with its subtitled dialogue caused a minor scandal in France. In it, three women have a political discussion and come to the conclusion that it is better to be deaf than to listen to politicians. As an actor, Audiard acted in supporting roles in Alain Robak's horror film Baby Blood in 1990 and in Denise Abaglia's television film Who is getting a baby here? .

Filmography

Director

Audiard with Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts at the premiere of The Taste of Rust and Bones in Cannes (2012)

Screenwriter (selection)

Awards

César

  • 1995: Best debut , nominated in the Best Screenplay category for When Men Fall
  • 1997: nominated in the categories Best Director and Best Screenplay for Life: A Lie
  • 2002: Best Screenplay , nominated in the categories Best Film and Best Director for lip service
  • 2006 : Best Film , Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for The Wilde Beat Of My Heart
  • 2010 : Best Film , Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for A Prophet
  • 2013 : Best adapted screenplay , nominated in the category Best Director for The Taste of Rust and Bone
  • 2016 : nominated in the categories Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Demons and Miracles
  • 2019 : Best Director , nominated in the categories Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film for The Sisters Brothers

British Academy Film Award

  • 2006 : Best Non-English Language Film for The Wild Beat Of My Heart
  • 2010 : Best Non-English Language Film for A Prophet

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 1996 : Best Screenplay for Life: A Lie
  • 2009 : Grand Jury Prize for A Prophet
  • 2015 : Golden Palm for Demons and Miracles

European film award

  • 2002: Nominated in the Best Screenplay category for lip service
  • 2005 : nominated in the category Best Director for The Wilde Beat of My Heart
  • 2009 : nominated in the categories Best Director and Best Screenplay for A Prophet

Étoile d'Or

  • 2006: Best film and best director for The Wilde Beat My Heart
  • 2010: Best Film , Best Director and Best Screenplay for A Prophet

Independent Spirit Awards

  • 2010: nominated in the category Best Foreign Film for A Prophet

Louis Delluc Prize

  • 2009: Best Film for A Prophet

London Critics Circle Film Awards

  • 2010: nominated in the directing and screenwriting categories for A Prophet

London Film Festival

  • 2009: Best Film for A Prophet
  • 2012: Best film for The Taste of Rust and Bones

Newport International Film Festival

  • 2002: Best director for lip service

Prix ​​Lumières

  • 2006: Best Film for The Wilde Beat Of My Heart
  • 2010: Best Director for A Prophet

Stockholm International Film Festival

  • 1996: Best Screenplay for When Men Fall

Syndicate Français de la Critique de Cinéma

  • 2006: Best Film for The Wilde Beat Of My Heart

Valladolid International Film Festival

  • 1996: Best Screenplay , nominated in the Best Picture category for When Men Fall

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mandelbaum, Jacques: Jacques Audiard galvanize Cannes with film "Un prophète" . In: Le Monde , May 19, 2009, Editorial - Analyzes, p. 1
  2. ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at timeout.com (accessed April 22, 2012).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.timeout.com
  3. ↑ AP : Marion Cotillard in Cannes film 'Rust and Bone' . May 17, 2012, 01:53 PM GMT (accessed via LexisNexis Economy ).
  4. ↑ Video review on arte.tv, 0:20 min (accessed on May 24, 2015).
  5. ↑ Film review by Lukas Stern at critic.de, May 21, 2015 (accessed on May 24, 2015).
  6. ↑ Borcholte, Andreas: Cannes diary: The scandal does not happen at spiegel.de, May 21, 2015 (accessed on May 24, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Audiard, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris