Yolande Moreau

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Yolande Moreau (born February 27, 1953 in Brussels ) is a Belgian comedian , actress , director and screenwriter of French - Flemish origin. For her portrayals, often marginal figures in society, she has been awarded the César , France's national film prize, twice.

Life

Training and first film roles

Yolande Moreau was born in Brussels in 1953. She worked for several years as an educator and worked for a children's theater in the Belgian capital before deciding to pursue a career as a comedian. Moreau studied at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, where she was taught by the famous clown and theater teacher Philippe Gaulier , among others . “It was like a revelation. Has nothing to do with grimacing. It was there that I learned how to get things deep inside, ”says Moreau. Her first success was in 1982 the one-woman piece Sale affaire du sexe et du crime , which she wrote on her free afternoons in dance halls. With the piece, in which she kills her lover as Irène and expresses fearfully in a harsh voice about the banality of her life, Yolande Moreau toured successfully through France , Switzerland and Québec, among others . Through the sale affaire du sexe et du crime , the actress also made the acquaintance of the Belgian director Agnès Varda , who Moreau played a part in her 28-minute short film 7p., Cuis., S. de b.,… à saisir offered. A year later, Yolande Moreau appeared again in a supporting role in Varda's award-winning drama Vogelfrei , in which Sandrine Bonnaire won over critics and audiences as a young vagabond.

In 1989, Yolande Moreau joined the theater group of Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeieff , a successful formation of Deadpan comedians who entertain the audience without smiling themselves. Moreau quickly became one of the outstanding players in the group, which had its own slot on Canal Plus . In plays such as Lapin chasseur or Les Pieds dans l'eau in the 1994 program Les Deschiens broadcast for French television , she embodied both crazy and poetic characters in an unpolished manner under the direction of Deschamps and Makeieffs. Then Moreau received more engagements for film and television productions, in which she was mostly entrusted with comic roles. After small supporting roles in comedies such as Étienne Chatiliez ' Happiness in the meadow , Coline Serreaus The Green Planet and Jean-Paul Rappeneau's drama The Hussar on the Roof , he worked with Jean-Pierre Jeunet in 2001 . The director and screenwriter gave her a bigger role in his romantic comedy The Fabulous World of Amélie , in which, as the lonely concierge Madame Wallace, she finds reconciliation with her unfaithful deceased husband through the heroine (played by Audrey Tautou ). The fabulous world of Amélie was a great success with critics and moviegoers and made Yolande Moreau known to a wider audience. The EUR 11.4 million production won the most important French film award, César , in 2002 as the best film of the year, as well as five Oscar nominations.

Success as a film director

After The fabulous world of Amélie , Yolande Moreau appeared increasingly in dramas and thrillers in the coming years, but was still subscribed to supporting roles. In 2001 she starred in Dominique Cabrera's award-winning drama Milk of Tenderness . In 2002 she acted alongside Philippe Noiret in Philippe Blasband's crime film Un honnête commerçant and received the female lead in the four-part television drama Le Champ dolent, le roman de la terre with Jean Yanne . After Moreau was seen again in 2004 under the direction of Dominique Cabreras in the war drama Folle embellie , the collaboration with the director and screenwriter Gilles Porte followed on the film When the Flood comes . The French filmmaker saw Yolande Moreau on stage in her program Sale affaire du sexe et du crime in the early 1990s . After Jérôme Deschamps' C'est Magnifique program , Porte was convinced that he would write a screenplay for a film in which Yolande Moreau would play the leading role - an actress who tours the country with her program. The filmmaker visited Moreau with a few pages of a draft script, which in five years of working together resulted in a film script. In 2004, both also took over the direction of When the Flood Comes , the original title of which is derived from a song by Raoul de Goederwaervelde known in northern France . The role of Irène , who tours northern France with her one-woman show and falls in love with the quick-tempered Belgian bon vivant Dries (played by Wim Willaert ), was Yolande Moreau's breakthrough as an actress and she won the César for best actress in 2005 and the Actor Award at the Festival International du Film Francophone in Namur . For their staging, Moreau and Porte received the César and the Louis Delluc Prize for the best first work and a nomination for the European Film Prize 2005 as New Discovery of the Year.

After the great success of When the Flood Comes , Yolande Moreau appeared in Constantin Costa-Gavras ' tragic comedy The Ax in 2005 . In 2006, the Belgian actress worked on five film and television productions, including the comedy Enfermés dehors by Albert Dupontel . The compilation film Paris je t'aime is also completed in which twenty-four international directors, including Tom Tykwer , Gus Van Sant and Walter Salles , take on twenty love stories that are set in the twenty different arrondissements of the French capital. In the episode 7th arrondissement , Yolande Moreau acted together with Paul Putner as a pantomime couple, directed by Sylvain Chomet . Moreau was able to build on earlier successes in 2008 with the title role in Martin Provost's drama Séraphine . The role of the painter Séraphine Louis brought her the second César for Best Actress in 2009 , which had previously only been achieved by such well-known French actresses as Sabine Azéma , Nathalie Baye or Catherine Deneuve , as well as the prize of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association . Her portrayal was also highly praised by critics at the German theatrical release of Séraphine in December 2009. “Yolande Moreau [...] carries this film almost alone. Your Séraphine is very present. She exudes all the willpower and artistic obstinacy that the housekeeper has in order to survive as an artist, ”said the taz , while the Frankfurter Rundschau praised the Belgian actress's“ moving self-evidentness ”with which she gave her headstrong figure.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Yolande Moreau at the 2013 César Awards
  • 2004: Louis Delluc Prize in the category of best first work for When the flood comes
  • 2004: Audience Award at the Paris International Cinema Meeting for When the Tide Comes
  • 2004: Bayard d'Or in the Best Actress category at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur for When the tide comes
  • 2005: Césars in the categories Best Actress and Best First Work for Wenn die Flutommen
  • 2005: Nomination for the European Film Award in the European Discovery of the Year category for When the Flood Comes
  • 2005: Nominations for the Joseph Plateau Prize in the categories of Best Belgian Actress and Best Belgian Screenplay for When the Flood Comes
  • 2008: Prize in the Best Actress category at the Cairo International Film Festival for Séraphine
  • 2009: César in the Best Actress category for Séraphine
  • 2009: Nomination for the European Film Award in the category Best Actress for Séraphine
  • 2009: Prix ​​Lumières in the Best Actress category for Séraphine
  • 2009: Étoile d'Or in the Best Actress category for Séraphine
  • 2009: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for Séraphine
  • 2009: Jury Prize in the Best Actress category at the Newport Beach Film Festival for Séraphine
  • 2013: Nomination for César in the category Best Supporting Actress for Camille - In love again!

Web links

Commons : Yolande Moreau  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marli Feldvoß: The Kinoanarchistin ( Memento of 21 December 2009 at the Internet Archive ) (accessed 26 December 2009) at epd-film.de.
  2. ↑ Elias Kreuzmair: Willpower and stubbornness . In: the daily newspaper , December 17, 2009, p. 15.
  3. ↑ Michael Kohler: On the hobby horse . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 17, 2009, p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Moreau, Yolande
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian comedian and actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels , Belgium