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Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte in 2011
Born (1947-11-12 ) 12 November 1947 (age 76) Occupation(s) Film director, actor, screenwriter Years active 1976–present
Patrice Leconte (French: [ləkɔ̃t] ; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director , actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter .
Life and career
Leconte grew up in Tours , and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques . While attending film school in the late 1960s, Leconte also worked as cartoonist, in particular for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote . He directed his first feature film in 1976, and had a number of major successes with comedy films that were barely distributed outside France. He first came to international attention in 1989 with Monsieur Hire , which was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival [1] and which was a radical departure from his previous work. Although he had already directed more than half a dozen features, many foreign critics, unfamiliar with his previous work, essentially treated him as a newcomer. Since then, he has alternated between films such as Ridicule and L'homme du train which have had success in the international arthouse market , and others, like fr [Les Grands Ducs ] , whose appeal has been limited to France.
In the 2000s, Patrice Leconte received more recognition in the United States with the successful United States releases of Girl on the Bridge , The Widow of Saint-Pierre , Man on the Train and Intimate Strangers (Paramount Classics released three of these films in the United States[2] ). Ryan Mottesheard of IndieWIRE wrote: "you could even argue that no other foreign filmmaker (INCLUDING Pedro Almodóvar ) has had as strong of an impact on United States arthouses."[3]
An English language remake of Leconte's film Man on the Train was remade by an independent Hollywood studio in 2011, and two others are in 'development': Intimate Strangers and My Best Friend .[4]
Patrice Leconte's film, The Suicide Shop , was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, California , on April 28 and May 2, 2013.[5]
Director
Year
Title
Box Office
Notes
1969
L'espace vital
/
Short
1971
Le laboratoire de l'angoisse
/
Short
1973
La famille heureuse (Famille Gazul)
/
Short
1976
Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur
$3,483,367[6]
1978
French Fried Vacation
$17,314,830[7]
1979
French Fried Vacation 2
$11,518,357[8]
1981
Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine
$21,151,267[9]
Nominated - Chicago International Film Festival - Best Feature
1982
Ma femme s'appelle reviens
$8,916,300[10]
1983
Circulez y a rien à voir!
$8,133,292[11]
1985
Les Spécialistes
$39,896,565[12]
1987
Tandem
$4,483,185[13]
Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1988
Sueurs froides
/
TV Series (1 Episode)
1989
Monsieur Hire
$5,980,540[14]
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film French Syndicate of Cinema Critics - Prix Méliès - Best French Film Guldbagge Award - Best Foreign Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Nominated - Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director
1990
The Hairdresser's Husband
$2,687,602[15]
Louis Delluc Prize Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Writing
1991
Contre l'oubli
/
Segment "Pour Alexandre Goldovitch, URSS"
1992
Le batteur du Boléro
/
ShortKraków Film Festival - Don Quixote Award
1993
Tango
$4,798,440[16]
The King of Ads
/
Documentary Segment "Pilote commercial"
1994
Le parfum d'Yvonne
$1,191,270[17]
1995
Lumière and Company
/
Documentary Segment "La Ciotat 1996"
1996
Les Grands Ducs
$3,755,175[18]
Ridicule
$35,519,611[19]
BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film Chicago International Film Festival - Best Film César Award for Best Film César Award for Best Director David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film London Film Critics' Circle Award for Foreign Language Film of the Year Lumières Award for Best Film National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film Society of Texas Film Critics Award - Best Foreign Film Awards Circuit Community Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Foreign Film Online Film & Television Association - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1998
Une chance sur deux
$7,926,075[20]
1999
Girl on the Bridge
$11,171,846[21]
Cinemania Film Festival - Audience Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Don Quijote Award - Special Mention Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Film Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Crystal Globe Nominated - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Robert Festival - Best Non-American Film
2000
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
$12,990,288[22]
Moscow International Film Festival - Russian Film Critics Award Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - American Film Institute - Grand Jury Prize Nominated - Film Critics Circle of Australia - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - Moscow International Film Festival - Golden St. George
2001
Félix et Lola
$480,382[23]
Nominated - Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear Nominated - Verona Love Screens Film Festival - Best Film
2002
Rue des plaisirs
$1,873,072[24]
The Man on the Train
$7,582,447[25]
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films Venice Film Festival - Audience Award - Best Film Seattle Film Critics Awards - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film Nominated - European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film Nominated - Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Nominated - Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Foreign-Language Film Nominated - Online Film & Television Association - Best Foreign Language Film Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Foreign Language Film
2004
Intimate Strangers
$7,460,079[26]
Nominated - Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear Nominated - European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film Nominated - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - Grand Prize
Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux
/
Documentary
2006
French Fried Vacation 3
$83,897,719[27]
My Best Friend
$13,186,926[28]
Nominated - David di Donatello for Best European Film
2007
Trac
/
Short
Dix films pour en parler
/
Short
2008
Beauties at War
$3,016,611[29]
2011
Voir la mer
$248,092[30]
Nominated - Taormina International Film Festival - Golden Tauro
2012
The Suicide Shop
$2,229,885[31]
Nominated - European Film Academy Young Audience Award
2013
A Promise
$385,486[32]
Nominated - Magritte Award for Best Foreign Film in Coproduction
2014
Do Not Disturb
$7,551,502[33]
2017
Mamie Loto
Pre-Production
Notes
Lisa Downing , Patrice Leconte (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)
References
External links
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