Louis Garrel

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Louis Garrel at the 2017 Cannes International Film Festival

Louis Garrel (born June 14, 1983 in Paris ) is a French actor and director.

Life

Louis Garrel was born in Paris in 1983 as the son of the director Philippe Garrel and the actress Brigitte Sy . His grandfather is the actor Maurice Garrel , his godfather is the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud . At the age of about six, Louis Garrel was in the drama Triads of the Kiss in the role of Lo together with his mother, his grandfather and his father, who also directed, in front of the camera. He took his first own steps towards acting at the age of 14 at the school theater. His second feature film and at the same time his first leading role followed in 2001 under the direction of Rodolphe Marconi in his film Ceci est mon corps , in which u. a. Jane Birkin and Annie Girardot were his film partners. After a supporting role in Yolande Zauberman's war drama The War in Paris , Garrel's international breakthrough in the film business followed in 2003. In Bernardo Bertolucci's Die Träumer , the young actor plays the manipulative Theo at the side of Michael Pitt and Eva Green , who, together with his twin sister, enters into an incestuous and homoerotic love triangle with the young and shy American Matthew in the Paris of the 1968 student revolts. The revealing work received mixed reviews and was among other things. a. Nominated for the Spanish Goya Film Award for Best European Film. In the same year Garrel began his acting studies at the drama school of the Conservatoire National in Paris.

After the success of Die Träumer , another controversial film project followed with his participation in Christophe Honoré's drama Meine Mutter . In the adaptation of Georges Bataille's scandalous novel, published posthumously in 1966 , Isabelle Huppert is Garrel's film partner, who leads him as his mother into a world of amorality, hedonism and depravity. In 2005 Louis Garrel, who speaks fluent English and Italian, again acted under the direction of his father Philippe. Troublemaker acts like The Dreamers of Parisian Students who committed themselves to the life of the bohemian during the revolt in May 1968 . Garrel plays the young François again alongside his mother and grandfather, who gets involved in a passionate relationship with Lily of the same age (played by Clotilde Hesme ). The almost three hour long drama was u. a. Award-winning at the Venice Film Festival . Louis Garrel received critical acclaim for his portrayal and was recognized as the best young actor at the 2006 Césars , the most important French film award. In the same year, the actor worked on three film projects, including Christophe Honorés Dans Paris, a tribute to the Nouvelle Vague in which Garrel and Romain Duris played a pair of brothers, and François Ozone's short film Un lever de rideau . He worked with Honoré repeatedly on the films Les Chansons d'amour (2007), The beautiful girl (2008) and Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser (2009).

In parallel to his acting career, Garrel presented his first short film in 2008, Mes copains . His second short film Petit Tailleur (2010) received an invitation to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival , earned him a César nomination, and won a prize at the Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival 2011 in Portugal. He finished his first feature film Les deux amis in 2015.

He has been in a relationship with Laetitia Casta since 2015 ; they married in June 2017.

Filmography (selection)

Garrel in 2009

actor

Direction and script

  • 2008: Mes copains (short film)
  • 2010: Petit tailleur (short film)
  • 2011: La règle de trois (short film)
  • 2015: Two friends (Les deux amis)
  • 2018: A Faithful Man

Awards

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Laetitia Casta et Louis Garrel se sont mariés en Corse
  2. ↑ The prizes at the 37th Munich Film Festival: Margot Hielscher Prize, Starter Film Awards and cinema program awards . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019.
  3. ↑ Louis Garrel receives the Margot Hielscher Prize . Article dated May 21, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Garrel, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris