Romain Duris

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Romain Duris (born May 28, 1974 in Paris ) is a French actor . Since the mid-1990s, he has appeared in more than 40 film and television productions, both dramas and comedies. He gained fame primarily through his multiple collaborations with the director Cédric Klapisch (including L'auberge espagnole , So ist Paris , or New York ) as well as his leading role in the award-winning crime drama The Wilde Beat My Heart (2005) by Jacques Audiard .

biography

Discovery and first film roles

Duris in 1999

Romain Duris came from a family of artists - his mother was a dancer and painter, his father is an architect. He grew up as the youngest of three siblings in Paris. After graduating from high school, Duris attended a drawing school. He was discovered by chance in 1993 by a casting director who was looking for young people at a Paris school that the French director Cédric Klapisch wanted to fill for his TV film Graduating Class: Wild Youth - 1975 . The film, which was made as part of the 1994 series Les Années lycée , tells the story of the four friends Bruno , Momo , Leon and Alain , who meet again in a maternity hospital ten years after graduating from school. The father of the expected child is Tomasi (played by Duris), who died of a drug overdose a month earlier . Together the four men remember their youth in the mid-1970s, their dreams and failures. The tragicomedy won the audience award at the Paris Film Festival in 1994. Duris landed another TV role in the same year he was seen in Frères: La roulette rouge, directed by Olivier Dahan . The actor made his cinema debut in 1996 in ... and everyone is looking for their kitten , also directed by Cédric Klapisch, with whom he was to work several times in the course of his career and became a mentor. According to his own statements, Duris did not attend drama school for fear of the lessons. “You don't learn to play, you feed on it.” Duris said in an interview in 2011. Before starting a film, he studies the movement and gait of his character and prefers the English acting technique.

After Jan Kounen's action film Dobermann , the first success followed in 1997 with Tony Gatlif's tragic comedy Gadjo Dilo - Beloved Stranger . In the film, Romain Duris plays Stéphane , a young man from Paris who, driven by a tape recording, is looking for the singer Nora Luca in Romania . Together with his co-star Rona Hartner , Duris was nominated for the best young actor in 1999 by the Césars , the most important French film award . After Olivier Dahan's crime drama Already Dead with Benoît Magimel , Cédric Klapisch's science fiction film Peut-être followed , in which the actor acted alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo , Géraldine Pailhas and Julie Depardieu , among others . The third collaboration with Klapisch brought Romain Duris another César nomination for best young actor in 2000.

Breakthrough with L'auberge espagnole

From then on, the former drummer of the band Kingsize switched between European independent films and large-scale productions. Duris became known to a wide European audience in 2002 with his first leading role in the French comedy L'auberge espagnole . Director Cédric Klapisch created the part of the aimless Erasmus student Xavier , who is spending a year abroad in a multicultural shared apartment in Barcelona , especially for Duris. The comedy, starring among others Judith Godrèche , Audrey Tautou and Cécile De France , became a huge success at the French box office and paved the way for Duris to play a number of leading roles.

In the same year he played the young homosexual Matthieu in Christophe Honoré's drama Cécile Cassard 17 times , in which he gave back the joy of life to the fate-plagued title heroine (played by Béatrice Dalle ). This was followed by Benoît Jacquot's drama Adolphe , in which he acted alongside Isabelle Adjani .

Duris in Venice (2009)

In 2003 Duris was part of the international ensemble of James Ivory's An Affair in Paris . The romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson , Naomi Watts and Glenn Close was not very successful with critics and audiences. The road movie Exil followed a year later , the third collaboration with director Tony Gatlif and the leading role in the international large-scale production Arsène Lupine , in which he played the famous master thief of the same name alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Eva Green . In 2005 Duris worked on two film projects. In L'auberge espagnole - Reunion in St. Petersburg he slipped back into the role of Xavier . Five years after the summer in Barcelona, ​​he ekes out a dreary existence as an unsuccessful writer and only finds professional and private happiness through detours. The film was able to build on the success of L'auberge espagnole and maintain its place at the top of the French box office against Hollywood productions such as Batman Begins and War of the Worlds . This was followed by Jacques Audiard's drama The Wild Beat Of My Heart , in which Duris, as the mafia's debt collector, has to weigh up between a criminal career and a future as a pianist . In preparation for the film, Duris took piano lessons from his sister, a concert pianist, and reduced his sleep schedule for most of the filming. The reward was nominations for the European Film Prize and the César for best leading actor as well as the Prix ​​Lumières won by the French foreign press. Outside France, too, there was great praise from the specialist critics. The film critic Peter Bradshaw ( The Guardian ) praised Duris even beyond the borders of France as "one of the most exciting young actors of his generation" .

In the episode film So ist Paris (2008), also directed by Cédric Klapisch , Duris plays the heart-sick dancer Pierre who, while waiting for a donor heart, empathizes with the stories and lives of the people in front of his balcony. In 2009 he was featured in the competition at the 66th Venice Film Festival with Patrice Chéreaus' film Persécution, in which he can be seen alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg . In 2011, Duris received his fourth César nomination for the title role in the successful love comedy The Order Lover (2010) alongside Vanessa Paradis .

Private life

Romain Duris lives in Paris and is in a relationship with his French colleague Olivia Bonamy . A son (* 2009) comes from the relationship.

In his private life, the actor is a big fan of the writer Charles Bukowski and the directors Jim Jarmusch , Joseph L. Mankiewicz , Frank Capra , Ernst Lubitsch , John Cassavetes and François Truffaut . Duris is also very fond of the work of screenwriter Harmony Korine and the music styles hip-hop , jazz , funk , electro funk and Arabic sounds. He also pursues painting and admires artists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , Vincent van Gogh and Keith Haring . He described his own pictures as "sexual work but in large landscapes" .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

César

Duris in Venice (2009)
  • 1999: Nominated as the best young actor for Gadjo Dilo - Beloved Stranger
  • 2000: nominated as Best Young Actor for Peut-être
  • 2006 : nominated for Best Actor for The Wilde Beat Of My Heart
  • 2011 : Nominated for Best Actor for The Order Over
  • 2015: Nominated for Best Actor for A New Friend

European film award

  • 2005 : Nominated for Best Actor for The Wilde Beat Of My Heart

Further

  • 1999: nominated for the Prix ​​Michel Simon

Chlotrudis Awards

  • 2006: nominated for Best Actor for The Wilde Beat Of My Heart

Étoile d'Or

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

Prix ​​Lumières

  • 2000: Best young actor for Peut-être
  • 2006: Best Actor for The Wilde Beat Of My Heart
  • 2011: Nominated for Best Actor for The Order Over and Night Blend

Web links

Commons : Romain Duris  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Romain Duris, l'acteur qui ne rêve que de coups de coeur . In: La Voix du Nord , November 3, 2010 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  2. a b c d e Day, Elizabeth: Romain Duris: 'I don't want to be Hollywood's poor little Frenchman' . In: The Observer , July 17, 2011, p. 12.
  3. Jump up ↑ Bradshaw, Peter: Reservoir frog: Romain Duris as a hot-tempered Paris gangster who wants out of the game is a revelation . In: The Guardian , November 4, 2005, p. 9.