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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 op IFFR

  • Hold Me Tight

    Mathieu Amalric | 97' | France | None

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
  • Mange ta soupe

    Mathieu Amalric | 67' | France | None

    A son comes home to visit his mother after being away. Trouble beckons… High, casual comedy!
  • Tralala

    Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Larrieu | 120' | France | None

    Mathieu Amalric shines as a modern troubadour in this quirky French musical, that travels from Paris to Lourdes.
  • Hold Me Tight

    Mathieu Amalric | 97' | France | None

    Has Clarisse just left her husband Marc and their two children or did something else happen? Gripping film by Mathieu Amalric.
  • Tralala

    Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Larrieu | 120' | France | None

    Festival Scope Pro availability TBC
  • Les signes

    Eugène Green | 32' | France | None

    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…
  • J’ai vu tuer Ben Barka

    Serge Le Péron | 101' | France | None

    Stylish pulp thriller and political story in one, about the still unsolved and topical disappearance of the Moroccan activist Ben Barka. Le Péron buil
  • 57000 KM entre nous

    Delphine Kreuter | 82' | France | International premiere

    Nat, a French adolescent, seeks her own course in the chaos of her pleasantly dysfunctional family and among other adults who act strangely. Almost al
  • La brèche de Roland

    Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Larrieu | 47' | France | -

    Beautifully photographed, loving story describes the vicissitudes of a family of four in the Pyrenees.
  • At Eternity’s Gate

    Julian Schnabel | 110' | United Kingdom | None

    Julian Schnabel’s portrait of the latter years of Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe), in which he wrestles with his art, illness and friendships.