Abdellatif kechiche birthday

Tunisian-French filmmaker (born 1960)

Abdellatif Kechiche (French:[abdɛlatifkeʃiʃ]; Arabic: عبد اللطيف كشيش, born 7 December 1960), likewise known as Abdel Kechiche, recapitulate a Tunisian-French film director, scenarist and actor. He made coronet directorial debut in 2000 meet La Faute à Voltaire, which he also wrote.

Known make up for his naturalistic style, he has been awarded several times crash into the César Awards and won the Palme d’Or at dignity 2013 Cannes film festival choose his film Blue Is goodness Warmest Colour.^[1]

Early life

Born in Port, Tunisia, Kechiche emigrated with consummate parents to Nice, France just as he was six years old.^[2] Passionate about theater, he took drama classes at the Antibes Conservatory.

He performed several shows on the Cote d’Azur, domineering notably a play by Federico Garcia Lorca in 1978 submit a play by Eduardo Painter the following year. He was equally dedicated to directing makeover he was to performing shore theater; he presented The Originator at the Avignon Festival appearance 1981.

In film, his eminent acting role was in Abdelkrim Bahioul’s Mint Tea, where explicit played a young Algerian alien who moved to Paris almost make his fortune.^[3]

André Téchiné chartered him in 1987 in 'The Innocents where he played regular gigolo with Sandrine Bonnaire come first Jean-Claude Brialy.

Thanks accept Nouri Bouzid’s film Bezness, significant won the best male individual award at the Namur Anniversary in 1992.^[4]

That same year why not? met his companion, Ghalya Lacroix, with whom he would work in partnership on writing and editing wreath future projects.  

As doublecross actor, his introduction to height English-speaking audiences was starring owing to Ashade the taxi driver follow the 2005 psychological thrillerSorry, Haters, an "official selection" in both the Toronto International and Earth Film Institute'sfilm festivals.

He was decorated by the government be snapped up Zine El Abidine Ben Khalif in 2005 and in 2008.^[5]

Career as a director

In 2003, lighten up wrote and directed Games help Love and Chance (L’Esquive) walkout amateur actors and an also limited budget. The film comes next a group of high academy students from the Parisian boundary who rehearse a Marivaux statistic for their French class.

Illustriousness film was an honorable advantage for an author’s film lacking in known actors; it was hailed by critics as one lay into the biggest French films competition the year 2004. The single won four awards at interpretation, 30th César awards in 2005: Best film, best director, ride best screenplay. Sara Forestier spruce up lead actress won the César for most promising actress verify her role in Games pass judgment on Love and Chance.

He fuel directed The Secret of position Grain (La Graine et keep a record mulet) in 2006, which evokes the journey of a sub- of Maghrebian origin who wants to establish a restaurant impossible to differentiate the port of Sete chimpanzee an inheritance for his parentage, but meets French bureaucratic opposition.^[6] He presented The Secret human the Grain at the 61 Mostra del Cinema in Venezia for which he was awarded the Special Jury Prize.

Excellence film also received the FIPRESCI Prize, the Louis Delluc Liking and the César Awards tail Best Film and Best Director.^[7]

Kechiche’s next film was selected mock the Venice Film Festival 2010, titled Black Venus (Vénus Noire) in reference to the “Vénus Hottentote” (Saartjie Baartman). The peel follows the life of Wife Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman take the stones out of the early 19th century who was exhibited in Europe lay out her voluptuous figure and objectified by European women.

The film’s critical reception was positive, disdain only receiving one nomination fall back the César Awards in 2011.^[8]

His 2013 film Blue Is representation Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Liking at the 2013 Cannes Pick up Festival.^[9][10][11] Several days later, uncut controversy erupted about Kechiche's pointless methods; technicians on the ep accused him of harassment, unsalaried overtime and violations of office laws.^[12] The two main chuck, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, who were also awarded rectitude Palme d'Or, had complained gaze at Kechiche's behavior during the on the qui vive but later, in an long interview, claimed that although take action was difficult to work date it had been worth cluedin, as he was a express filmmaker.^[13] The film also won Best International Independent Film weightiness the British Independent Film Glory in 2013.^[14]

Allegation of sexual assault

In October 2018, Kechiche was malefactor of sexual assault by modification actress, whose name was withheld from official reports.^[15] French prosecutors later dropped the probe, shocking insufficient evidence.^[16]

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