Mathieu Amalric
Matthieu AMALRIC (1965, France) is an actor and filmmaker. As an actor, he first received critical acclaim for Ma vie sexuelle (My Sex Life…or How I Got Into an Argument), for which he won a César Award. He has been in more than 20 films, among them films by Otar Iosseliani, Raul Ruiz and Arnaud Desplechin. Internationally, he is most known for his roles in Quantum of Solace (2008), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2006), and his lead performance in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he won several awards. In 1997, he directed his first feature, Mange ta soupe. Amalric won the prize for Best Director at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for his film Tournée. Serre moi fort (2021), an adaptation of Claudine Galea’s play Je reviens de loin, had its world premiere in Cannes.
Filmography
Sans rires (1990, short), Les yeux au plafond (1993, short), Mange ta soupe (1997), Le stade de Wimbledon (2001), La chose publique (2003, TV), 14,58 euro (2004, short), Deux cages sans oiseaux (2007, short), A l’instar du père Noël et de la pizza (2007, short), Laissez-les grandir ici! (2007, short doc), L’illusion comique (2010), Tournée (2010), Joann Sfar (dessins) (2010, short doc), L’Illusion comique (2010, TV), Next to Last (automne 63) (2013, short), La Magie de Noël (2014, short), La Chambre bleue/The Blue Room (2014), C’est presque au bout du monde (2015, short), Barbara (2017), Serre-moi fort/Hold Me Tight (2021), Zorn III (2018 – 2022) (2022, doc), Maîtres anciens – comédie (2022)
More info: Wikipedia, Mathieu Almaric
Mathieu Amalric at IFFR
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Mange ta soupe
A son comes home to visit his mother after being away. Trouble beckons… High, casual comedy!
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Hold Me Tight
Has Clarisse just left her husband Marc and their two children or did something else happen? Gripping film by Mathieu Amalric.
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Les signes
A young mother and her two sons wait for the return of the father. He left 10 years ago to go to sea and has not been seen since. A story about hop
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J’ai vu tuer Ben Barka
Stylish pulp thriller and political story in one, about the still unsolved and topical disappearance of the Moroccan activist Ben Barka. Le Péron b
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57000 KM entre nous
Nat, a French adolescent, seeks her own course in the chaos of her pleasantly dysfunctional family and among other adults who act strangely. Almost
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La brèche de Roland
Beautifully photographed, loving story describes the vicissitudes of a family of four in the Pyrenees.
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At Eternity’s Gate
Julian Schnabel’s portrait of the latter years of Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe), in which he wrestles with his art, illness and friendships
