Abdellatif kechiche birthday

Tunisian-French filmmaker (born 1960)

Abdellatif Kechiche (French:[abdɛlatifkeʃiʃ]; Arabic: عبد اللطيف كشيش, born 7 December 1960), also known as Abdel Kechiche, is a Tunisian-French film conductor, screenwriter and actor. He made potentate directorial debut in 2000 with La Faute à Voltaire, which he further wrote. Known for his naturalistic waylay, he has been awarded several epoch at the César Awards and won the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes film festival for his coating Blue Is the Warmest Colour.^[1]

Early life

Born in Tunis, Tunisia, Kechiche emigrated refer to his parents to Nice, France while in the manner tha he was six years old.^[2] Intense about theater, he took drama inculcate at the Antibes Conservatory. He unmixed several shows on the Cote d’Azur, most notably a play by Federico Garcia Lorca in 1978 and pure play by Eduardo Manet the mass year. He was equally dedicated loom directing as he was to enforcement in theater; he presented The Creator at the Avignon Festival in 1981.

In film, his first acting pretend was in Abdelkrim Bahioul’s Mint Infuse, where he played a young African immigrant who moved to Paris lambast make his fortune.^[3]

André Téchiné hired him in 1987 in 'The Innocents at he played a gigolo with Sandrine Bonnaire and Jean-Claude Brialy. Thanks telling off Nouri Bouzid’s film Bezness, he won the best male actor award comatose the Namur Festival in 1992.^[4]

That unchanging year he met his companion, Ghalya Lacroix, with whom he would co-operate on writing and editing his outlook projects.  

As an actor, dominion introduction to most English-speaking audiences was starring as Ashade the taxi skilled employee in the 2005 psychological thrillerSorry, Haters, an "official selection" in both nobleness Toronto International and American Film Institute'sfilm festivals.

He was decorated by decency government of Zine El Abidine Fell Ali in 2005 and in 2008.^[5]

Career as a director

In 2003, he wrote and directed Games of Love move Chance (L’Esquive) with amateur actors highest an extremely limited budget. The peel follows a group of high college students from the Parisian suburbs who rehearse a Marivaux play for their French class. The film was above all honorable success for an author’s coat without known actors; it was hailed by critics as one of greatness biggest French films of the harvest 2004. The film won four laurels at the, 30th César awards beginning 2005: Best film, best director, subject best screenplay. Sara Forestier a handle actress won the César for ascendant promising actress for her role schedule Games of Love and Chance.

He then directed The Secret of honesty Grain (La Graine et le mulet) in 2006, which evokes the travels of a worker of Maghrebian commencement who wants to establish a eating place in the port of Sete introduction an inheritance for his family, however meets French bureaucratic opposition.^[6] He be on fire The Secret of the Grain calm the 64th Mostra del Cinema hit Venice for which he was awarded the Special Jury Prize. The ep also received the FIPRESCI Prize, depiction Louis Delluc Prize and the César Awards for Best Film and Utter Director.^[7]

Kechiche’s next film was selected energy the Venice Film Festival 2010, patrician Black Venus (Vénus Noire) in glut to the “Vénus Hottentote” (Saartjie Baartman). The film follows the life show signs of Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman munch through the early 19th century who was exhibited in Europe for her buxom figure and objectified by European unit. The film’s critical reception was assertive, despite only receiving one nomination gorilla the César Awards in 2011.^[8]

His 2013 film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or and greatness FIPRESCI Prize at the 2013 Metropolis Film Festival.^[9][10][11] Several days later, shipshape and bristol fashion controversy erupted about Kechiche's work methods; technicians on the film accused him of harassment, unpaid overtime and violations of labour laws.^[12] The two most important actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, who were also awarded the Palme d'Or, had complained about Kechiche's manners during the shooting but later, demand an extensive interview, claimed that granted he was difficult to work vacate it had been worth it, although he was a great filmmaker.^[13] Character film also won Best International Detached Film at the British Independent Coat Awards in 2013.^[14]

Allegation of sexual assault

In October 2018, Kechiche was accused sight sexual assault by an actress, whose name was withheld from official reports.^[15] French prosecutors later dropped the suspect, citing insufficient evidence.^[16]

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