Jean-Pierre Léaud

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Jean-Pierre Léaud in 2000

Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 28, 1944 in Paris ) is a French film actor . He became famous for playing the main character in the Antoine Doinel cycle by director François Truffaut . Léaud's most famous films Are You Kissed and You Beat him (Truffaut, 1959), Masculin-Feminine (Godard, 1966), Stolen Kisses (Truffaut, 1968), Table and Bed (Truffaut, 1970) and I Hired a Contract Killer (Kaurismäki, 1990)

Life

Léaud is one of the main protagonists of the nouvelle vague of French cinema in the 1960s. He was discovered and promoted as a child by François Truffaut . The son of an actress and a screenwriter won the casting for the lead role in Truffaut's first full-length feature film. Léaud was featured as Antoine Doinel in the films They Kissed and They Beat him (Les quatre cents coups; 1959), Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés; 1968), Table and Bed (Domicile conjugal; 1970) and Love on the Run (L'amour en fuite; 1979) internationally known. If, in his debut as a child, he revolted against an ignorant environment, in Stolen Kisses he got into a turmoil of love with his girlfriend Christine Darbon, played by Truffaut's discovery Claude Jade . Since then a chronicle of the couple Antoine and Christine, the two experience married life in bed and table . In the last film in the cycle, Love on the Run , Antoine and Christine divorce but remain friends. The two characters Antoine and Christine are similar in their naivete; while Christine matures over time, Antoine remains childish even in adulthood. Delicacy with a tendency towards eccentricity and poetry characterize his Antoine, who becomes a symbiosis of Truffaut, Doinel and Léaud himself. The cycle, which extends over 20 years, is unique in the history of film. Truffaut was also privately connected to his heroes: he wanted to marry Claude Jade, later called her "my third daughter" and remained on friendly terms with her and Jean-Pierre Léaud even lived with his not only cinematic foster father for a time.

Léaud played in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin - Feminin or: Die Kinder von Marx und Coca-Cola (Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis; 1966) and received a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1966 Berlinale . The film Der Start (Le Départ; 1967) by Jerzy Skolimowski with Léaud in the leading role won a Golden Bear for Best Film at the 1967 Berlin Film Festival .

In the phase of collaboration with Godard in other films ( The Chinese , Made in USA , The Happy Science ), Léaud's characters grew colder and, in contrast to his Truffaut films, had a humorless detachment. Léaud also became a pawn in a long-standing rift between former friends Truffaut and Godard, which was the theme of the 2011 film Godard meets Truffaut . Léaud was also prone to outbursts, for example when working on Marcel Cravennes' L'éducation sentimentale .

In addition to the Doinels, Léaud also worked with Truffaut in the films Two Girls from Wales and Love for the Continent (1972) and The American Night (1973), with Alphonse being a Double Doinels in the latter and love in flashbacks in the last Doinel adventure on the run : Truffaut makes intercuts to Christine (Claude Jade) in a dispute between the characters Alphonse (Léaud) and Liliane ( Dani ), who settles the dispute, so that Alphonse also becomes part of Doinel's fictional biography. In addition to his masters, Léaud works with other greats: Bernardo Bertolucci hired him in 1972 for the erotic drama The Last Tango in Paris as Maria Schneider's director friend Tom. He worked avant-garde in the auteur films of Jacques Rivette and Jean Eustache . Eustach's The Mama and the Whore is one of his most important films, along with stolen kisses . Other important directors are Pier Paolo Pasolini for Der Schweinestall and Glauber Rocha for Der Leone have sept cabeças , a settlement with European colonialism.

In 1975 Léaud made a film in Germany. The gangster satire hugs and other things was filmed under the direction of Jochen Richter in a mountain village in Bavaria. Bernd Eichinger was the co-producer of this film . But purely commercial films like this remained the exception in Léaud's work.

After Truffaut's death in 1984, the politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit wanted to establish himself as a filmmaker with another continuation of the Antoine Doinel series and contacted Claude Jade , who was Léaud's partner in the last three films in the series. However, the project did not materialize.

In 1990 Léaud made a comeback in I hired a Contract Killer by Aki Kaurismäki . Since then he has occasionally been a leading actor in films by young directors, such as in 2001 in the French-Canadian film Der Pornograph (Le Pornographe) by Bertrand Bonello . After long abstinence from the screen, Léaud played a small role in a film by Aki Kaurismäki, Le Havre , which premiered in Cannes in 2011 .

In 2016 he played the dying King Louis XIV in La mort de Louis XIV, directed by Albert Serra .

In 2000 he received an honorary César . In 2016 he was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival as an honorary award for his life's work.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jean-Pierre Léaud  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The honory Palme d'or awarded to Jean-Pierre Léaud at festival-cannes.com, May 10, 2016 (accessed May 10, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Léaud, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris