Cédric Klapisch is an acclaimed
FrenchFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
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born September 4th, 1961 in
Neuilly-sur-SeineNeuilly-sur-Seine is a commune bordering the western limit of the city of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe....
near
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. He studied cinema in France at university, and, at the age of 23, attended
New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
for two years to continue his cinematic education. During the 1980's he started to shoot short films such as
In transitIn Transit is a film based on the true story of German prisoners of war in a Russian work camp after World War II...
or
Ce qui me meut. After this he worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for more mainstream films. He has also directed a nature documentary for French television.
Klapisch was born into a Jewish, yet very atheist, family.
Cédric Klapisch is an acclaimed
FrenchFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
film directorA film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....
born September 4th, 1961 in
Neuilly-sur-SeineNeuilly-sur-Seine is a commune bordering the western limit of the city of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe....
near
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. He studied cinema in France at university, and, at the age of 23, attended
New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
for two years to continue his cinematic education. During the 1980's he started to shoot short films such as
In transitIn Transit is a film based on the true story of German prisoners of war in a Russian work camp after World War II...
or
Ce qui me meut. After this he worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for more mainstream films. He has also directed a nature documentary for French television.
Klapisch was born into a Jewish, yet very atheist, family. His maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. In 1992 he shot his first feature film entitled
Riens du toutRiens du tout is a 1992 French film directed by Cédric Klapisch. The screenplay was written by himself with Jackie Berroyer...
, which had few spectators but was well received by critics. One year later, a TV channel asked him to make a film about a college in 1995 called
Le péril jeuneLe péril jeune is a 1994 French film directed by Cédric Klapisch. It is a comedy-drama starring among others Romain Duris , Nicolas Koretzky , Joachim Lombard , Vincent Elbaz , Julien Lambroschini , Élodie Bouchez , Julie-Anne Rauth , Hélène de Fougerolles , Lisa Faulkner and Jackie Berroyer...
. It was a very small budget film starring
Romain Duris-Life:Born on 28 May 1974 in Paris, son of an engineer-architect father, Duris studied arts at university. He was noticed in the street by a casting director whilst waiting in a queue in 1993 and offered a part in the 1994 Cédric Klapisch film Le péril jeune...
and
Vincent ElbazVincent Elbaz is a French actor. He has appeared in many French television shows and movies.His first major role was in the 1994 movie Le péril jeune.Elbaz received the 1998 Jean Gabin Prize.-Filmography:...
, who would become two of his favourite actors. Due to its success when broadcast on TV, the film was released in the theaters two years later.
During the 90's he also made three short films to encourage the use of the condoms in combating AIDS, which are
La chambreLa Chambre is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-References:*...
,
Le Poisson Rouge and
Le Ramoneur des Lilas.
In 1996 he shot
Chacun cherche son chat (When the Cat's Away), a neighbourhood story in Paris, and at the same time he prepared an adaptation of a French theatre comedy
Un air de familleUn air de famille is a 1996 French film. It was directed by Cédric Klapisch, and written by him, Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri...
.
Agnes JaouiAgnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actor:* Le Faucon...
and
Jean-Pierre BacriJean-Pierre Bacri is a French Jewish actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with his wife Agnès Jaoui.-Life:One of his earliest film appearances was Subway...
, the two scriptwriters and main actors, asked him to adapt the play for cinema. He accepted and sold 2.5 million tickets, and the film got one
César AwardThe César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma....
for the script and two others for the male and female supporting parts, which were played by
Catherine FrotCatherine Frot is a theatre and film actress born in Paris, France on 1 May 1956.-Early life:The daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher, Frot demonstrated comic traits and expressions at an early age. At the age of fourteen, she enrolled in the Versailles conservatory while still in school...
and Jean-Pierre Daroussin.
At the same time, his popularity did not enable him to find the funds to shoot a major motion picture, which he had already been writing for several years. However, he found a producer and made his film,
Peut-être (Maybe), in 1999 with
Jean-Paul BelmondoJean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football....
and Romain Duris with Vincent Elbaz once again. The film was not as successful as some of his past endeavors, and did not satisfy the producers.
Next he wrote a whodunnit,
Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire), but the beginning of the shooting was delayed four months. During this period Cedric Klapisch decided to shoot another project with a ridiculously low budget in Spain. This work, called
L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment), sold 3 million tickets and became his greatest success.
In 2005, he filmed the sequel to
L'Auberge Espagnole,
Les Poupées Russes (The Russian Dolls The Russian Dolls is a 2005 French-British film, the sequel to L'Auberge espagnole . Cédric Klapisch wrote and directed the film, whose settings include Paris, London, Saint Petersburg and Moscow...
), with many of the same actors from
L'Auberge Espagnole. This film was another great success with audiences and critics. His most recent film,
Paris, was released in February 2008.
A distinguishing feature of his work is his way of filming the gestures and nuances of daily life. One of his favourites actors,
Zinedine SoualemZinedine Soualem is an award-winning French film actor. He has appeared in at least five films directed by Cédric Klapisch....
, who appears in 5 of his films, says that Klapisch films the gestures that people do not notice. Klapisch is also reputed for giving an important role to sound and music in his films.
Filmography as director
- Ce qui me meut (1988)
- Riens du tout
Riens du tout is a 1992 French film directed by Cédric Klapisch. The screenplay was written by himself with Jackie Berroyer...
(1992)
- Le péril jeune
Le péril jeune is a 1994 French film directed by Cédric Klapisch. It is a comedy-drama starring among others Romain Duris , Nicolas Koretzky , Joachim Lombard , Vincent Elbaz , Julien Lambroschini , Élodie Bouchez , Julie-Anne Rauth , Hélène de Fougerolles , Lisa Faulkner and Jackie Berroyer...
(1994)
- Poisson rouge (1994)
- La chambre
La Chambre is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-References:*...
(1994)
- Le Ramoneur des Lilas (1995)
- Lumière et compagnie (1995)
- When the Cat's Away (1996)
- Un air de famille
Un air de famille is a 1996 French film. It was directed by Cédric Klapisch, and written by him, Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri...
(1996)
- Peut-être (1999)
- L'auberge espagnole (2001)
- Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) (2002)
- The Russian Dolls
The Russian Dolls is a 2005 French-British film, the sequel to L'Auberge espagnole . Cédric Klapisch wrote and directed the film, whose settings include Paris, London, Saint Petersburg and Moscow...
(2004)
- Paris
Paris is a 2008 film by Cédric Klapisch concerning a large group of people living in Paris. The film began shooting in November 2006 and was released in February 2008.-Plot:This is the story of a Parisian who is sick and thinks he may die...
(2008)
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