"was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. In January 2014, the film received four nominations at the 39th César Awards, winning for Best Costume Design. The film tells the forgotten story of Andrée Heuschling, also known as Catherine Hessling, who was the last model of impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the first actress in the films of his son, the film director Jean Renoir. Andrée was the link between two famous and widely acclaimed artists, a father and son. While the father is at the end"
"Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the first actor in the films of his son, the director Jean Renoir. The story is set in the south of France during World War I. The film stars Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, and Vincent Rottiers. ""Renoir"" was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Gilles Bourdos Gilles Bourdos (born 28 November 1963) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his atmospheric cinema, which uses troubling themes in contrast with strong aesthetic imagery. He was one of the"
"Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel ""Les Enfants Terribles"" (1929), and the films ""The Blood of a Poet"" (1930), ""Les Parents Terribles"" (1948), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1946) and ""Orpheus"" (1949). He was described as ""one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers"" by AllMovie. Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a town near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte; a socially prominent Parisian family. His father was a lawyer"
"Their son Jacques Pagnol was born on 24 September 1930. (Jacques later became his father's assistant and subsequently a cameraman for France 3 Marseille.) In 1926, on a visit to London, Pagnol attended a screening of one of the first talking films and he was so impressed that he decided to devote his efforts to cinema. He contacted Paramount Picture studios and suggested adapting his play ""Marius"" for cinema. This was directed by Alexander Korda and released on 10 October 1931. It became one of the first successful French-language talking films. In 1932 Pagnol founded his own film production studios"
"chameau"" in Paris and a 50-hectare vineyard which produces some 80,000 bottles a year (red and rosé) labelled as ""Château Bel Évêque"" in Gruissan in the department of Aude. Married and divorced three times, he has two sons who are both actors and musicians, Olivier is a group member of ""Blues trottoir"" and plays the saxophone whereas Christophe plays the double bass. His grandson, Arthur Defays, is a model and actor. Note : Pierre Richard has played in all the films he has directed. Pierre Richard Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; 16 August 1934) is a French"
"Philippe Cousteau Philippe-Pierre Cousteau (30 December 1940 – 28 June 1979) was the second son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Cousteau, a diver, sailor, pilot, photographer, author, director and cinematographer specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography. Philippe Cousteau was proficient filming from the air, on land and underwater. He was the lead cinematographer for most of the Cousteau films during his lifetime; he was nominated for and won several awards. Born in Toulon, Philippe Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 4 years old. His father brought home a miniature version of the"
"nearly forty, and started modelling for him. She gave birth to their first son, Pierre, in 1885 and they married in Paris on 14 April 1890. They had two other sons, Jean born 1894 and Claude born 1901. From 1888 the couple spent progressively more time living in Essoyes, buying a house there in 1896. In 1903 they moved to Cagnes-sur-Mer, building a new house there, ""Les Collettes"", between 1905 and 1909. Pierre became a prominent stage and film actor; Jean became a famous film ""auteur"", actor, and author; and Claude became a ceramic artist. Pierre had a son Claude"
"Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur (2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961) was a French film director and screenwriter. Born Maurice Thomas in the Épinettes district (17th arrondissement of Paris), his father was a wholesaler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the theater. In 1904, he married the actress, Fernande Petit. They had a son, Jacques (1904–1977), who would follow his father into the film industry. Using the stage name Maurice Tourneur, he began his show business career performing in secondary roles on stage and eventually"
"Auguste and Louis Lumière The Lumière brothers (, ; ), Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (; 19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean (; 5 October 1864 – 7 June 1948), were among the first filmmakers in history. They patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas Edison's ""peepshow"" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties. The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France, to Charles-Antoine Lumière (1840–1913) and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière, who were married in 1861 and moved to Besançon, setting up a small photographic portrait studio where Auguste and Louis were born. They moved"
"Alain Renoir Alain Renoir (October 31, 1921 – December 12, 2008) was a French-American writer and literature professor, son of filmmaker Jean Renoir and actress Catherine Hessling, and grandson of impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir was born in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the only son of Jean Renoir. As a teenager Renoir worked in a few of his father's films, including ""House Party"" (1936), as assistant cameraman on ""The Human Beast"" (1938) and ""The Rules of the Game"" (1939). In 1942 he joined his father in the United States, enlisted in the American Army and served in combat in the Pacific. After the"
"the father of Célia (an actress) and Marie (a stuntwoman) by Isabel Garcia de Herreros (a film editor). [D] = ""Director"" - [W] = ""Writer"" Pierre Granier-Deferre Pierre Granier-Deferre (27 July 1927, Paris – 16 November 2007) was a French film director. His 1971 film ""Le Chat"" won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. Granier-Deferre married Annie Fratellini, who starred in his film, ""La Métamorphose des cloportes"". They had one daughter, Valerie. He had two children with his second wife, Susan Hampshire, an English actress: a son, Christopher, a producer/director, and a"
"played by child actress Ariane Frédérique. Stéphane Rousseau, better known in Quebec as a stand-up comedian than an actor, was cast as Sébastien, after Dominique Michel urged Arcand to allow Rousseau to audition. Arcand explained he felt Rousseau had the ""authority"" the other actors who auditioned did not, though Rousseau was surprised to get the part as he felt his character was colder and more of an intellectual than he was. Rousseau's mother had died of cancer when he was a child, and he had fought with his father, later incorporating that experience into his performance. The film was shot"
"Philadelphia. Renoir's son, Alain Renoir (1921-2008), became a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley and a scholar of medieval English literature. Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films ""La Grande Illusion"" (1937) and ""The Rules of the Game"" (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. He was ranked"
"Abel Gance Abel Gance (; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: ""J'accuse"" (1919), ""La Roue"" (1923), and the monumental ""Napoléon"" (1927). Born in Paris in 1889, Abel Gance was the illegitimate son of a prosperous doctor, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother, Françoise Péréthon (or Perthon). Initially taking his mother's name, he was brought up until the age of eight by his maternal grandparents in the coal mining town of Commentry in"
"Pierre Braunberger Pierre Braunberger (29 July 1905, Paris – 16 November 1990, Aubervilliers) was a French producer, executive producer, and actor. Born into a family of doctors, Braunberger at the age of seven was already determined not have the same life as his father, and not to take up medicine as a career. He saw a screening of ""Fantômas"" at the Gaumont Théâtre, the first cinema to open in Paris, and decided to work in the cinema. After the First World War, at the age of 15, he produced and directed his first film: ""Frankfurt"" in Germany. He left for"
"Gance was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938. He was also a member of the jury for the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, with Jean Cocteau as president. Abel Gance Abel Gance (; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: ""J'accuse"" (1919), ""La Roue"" (1923), and the monumental ""Napoléon"" (1927). Born in Paris in 1889, Abel Gance was the illegitimate son of a prosperous doctor, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother,"
"to Lyon in 1870, where son Edouard and three daughters were born. Auguste and Louis both attended La Martiniere, the largest technical school in Lyon. Their father Charles-Antoine set up a small factory producing photographic plates, but even with Louis and a young sister working from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. it teetered on the verge of bankruptcy, and by 1882 it looked as if they would fail, but when Auguste returned from military service the boys designed the machines necessary to automate their father's plate production and devised a very successful new photo plate, 'etiquettes bleue', and by 1884"
"the Merit. In 2015, he became a member of the French Marine Painters and was promoted Commander as a reserve officer in the French Navy. In 2016, he received the prestigious Prix du Cinéma René Clair from the French Academy. He has three sons, Mathieu, born 1975, Maxence, born 1995, and Lancelot, born 2000. The two eldest are actors. Jacques Perrin Jacques Perrin (born Jacques André Simonet; 13 July 1941) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's. Perrin was born in Paris. His father, Alexandre"
"ceramic artist. Pierre had a son Claude who became the well-known cinematographer. She predeceased her elderly husband. Aline Victorine Charigot was born on 23 May 1859 to a farming family who cultivated grapes in Essoyes in the department of Aube, France. When she was still a baby her father went to America and her mother moved away leaving Aline to be looked after by her aunt and uncle. She received little education. In 1874 she followed her mother to Montmartre, Paris, where she worked as a dressmaker. In about 1880 she met Auguste Renoir, when she was twenty and he"
"Robert Guédiguian Robert Jules Guédiguian (born 3 December 1953) is a French film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Armenian father. He evokes his paternal roots in his 2006 film ""Le Voyage en Armenie"". He has a working-class background - his father is a worker on the Marseille docks. He became concerned with political questions and for a while was involved with the French Communist Party. In 2008 he joined the Left Party. Like Marcel Pagnol and René Allio before him,"
"the Garches hospital. He was 37 at the time of his death. Guillaume Depardieu Guillaume Depardieu (7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008) was a French actor, winner of a César Award, and the oldest child of Gérard Depardieu. Depardieu was the son of actor Gérard Depardieu and his first wife, actress Élisabeth Depardieu (née Guignot). He was the brother of actress Julie Depardieu, and half-brother of Roxane and Jean Depardieu. Guillaume shared the screen with his father several times throughout his career, beginning with his first film role, aged three, playing Gérard's son in Claude Goretta's ""That Wonderful Crook"""
"(Aline and Auguste's grandson) who became the well-known cinematographer. After Claude's birth she developed diabetes but hid this from her husband. Pierre and Jean were drafted into the army in World War I and both were injured, Jean badly so. Aline died from a heart attack in Nice on 27 June 1915 after a hospital visit to Jean so predeceasing her elderly and disabled husband by four years. She was buried in the south of France and then her remains were moved to Essoyes to be alongside her mother. Charigot had a love of the arts – she played the"
"both French and English language films. His most famous films include the crime film ""Ascenseur pour l'échafaud"" (1958), the World War II drama ""Lacombe, Lucien"" (1974), the romantic crime film ""Atlantic City"" (1980), the comedy-drama ""My Dinner with Andre"" (1981), and the autobiographical film ""Au revoir les enfants"" (1987). Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France, the son of Francoise (Béghin) and Pierre Malle. During World War II, Malle attended a Roman Catholic boarding school near Fontainebleau. As an 11-year-old he witnessed a Gestapo raid on the school, in which three Jewish students, including his"
"Guillaume Depardieu Guillaume Depardieu (7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008) was a French actor, winner of a César Award, and the oldest child of Gérard Depardieu. Depardieu was the son of actor Gérard Depardieu and his first wife, actress Élisabeth Depardieu (née Guignot). He was the brother of actress Julie Depardieu, and half-brother of Roxane and Jean Depardieu. Guillaume shared the screen with his father several times throughout his career, beginning with his first film role, aged three, playing Gérard's son in Claude Goretta's ""That Wonderful Crook"" (""Pas Si Méchant Que Ça"") in 1974. His next appearance beside his"
"Jean-Michel Cousteau Jean-Michel Cousteau (born 6 May 1938) is a French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer. The first son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, he is the father of Fabien Cousteau and Céline Cousteau. Cousteau is the son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Melchior. Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 7 years old. Although he went to school to study architecture, he joined his father's Cousteau Society, serving for twenty years as executive vice president before striking out on his own in 1993 to produce environmental films. Cousteau and his father disagreed on"
"Marie-Claire (née Blanc) and Jean Chazelle. He grew up in Paris, France, where he received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in applied mathematics at the École des mines de Paris in 1977. Then, at the age of 21, he attended Yale University in the United States, where he received his PhD in computer science in 1980 under the supervision of David P. Dobkin. He is the father of director Damien Chazelle, the youngest person in history to win an Academy Award for Best Director, and Anna Chazelle, an entertainer. He went on to claim important research positions at institutions"
"Pierre Tchernia Pierre Tcherniakowski (29 January 1928 – 8 October 2016), better known as Pierre Tchernia, was a French cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. In France he was known as """"Magic"" Tchernia"" and ""Monsieur Cinema"". Born in Paris as Pierre Tcherniakowski, he was the youngest of four children. His father, a Ukrainian immigrant, was an engineer and his mother a seamstress. He grew up in Courbevoie. In 1940, at age 12, he saw John Ford's Western ""Stagecoach"" and was inspired to work in cinema. After graduation, he enrolled in a film and photography technical school, and"
"films consisted of lower budgeted theatrical releases and made-for-TV films. According to one obituary, ""Regardless of whether he was directing a light comedy, war epic or crime drama, Mr. Guillermin had a reputation as an intense, temperamental perfectionist, notorious for screaming at cast and crew alike. His domineering manner often alienated producers and actors... But Mr. Guillermin’s impeccable eye and ability to capture both intimate moments and large-scale action scenes usually overcame that reputation."" Guillermin was born Yvon Jean Guillermin in London on 11 November 1925. His parents, Joseph and Genevieve, were French. Joseph Guillermin worked in the perfume industry."
"presents as a miscarriage of justice. ""Tell Me About Love"" (1975), ""Le Passé simple"", and ""Guy de Maupassant"" (1982), confirmed his appeal for psychological intrigue. The latter was an expensive flop. In 1986, with ""Sauve-toi, Lola"", he tackled the theme of cancer, then the relationship between grandfather and grandson in ""Il est Génial Papy!"" (1987). He had three children with Nat - David, Julien and Aurélien. Michel Drach Michel Drach (18 October 1930 in Paris – 15 February 1990 in Paris) was a French film director, writer, producer and actor. After studying painting at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he became"
"June 2008, at the age of 100. Jean Delannoy Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a Protestant, a descendant of Huguenots, some of whom fled the country during the French Wars of Religion, and settled first in Wallonia. Afterwards, their name became De la Noye and then Delano, who were on the second ship to immigrate to Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was a student in Paris when he"
"in the Sixième arrondissement of Nantes (Rue Metzinger) was named after Jean's grandfather, Charles Henri Metzinger (10 May 1814 – ?). Following the early death of his father, Eugène François Metzinger, Jean pursued interests in mathematics, music and painting, though his mother, a music professor by the name of Eugénie Louise Argoud, had ambitions of his becoming a medical doctor. Jean's younger brother Maurice (born 24 Oct. 1885) would become a musician, excelling as a cellist. By 1900 Jean was a student at Académie Cours Cambronne in Nantes, working under Hippolyte Touront, a well-known portrait painter who taught an academic,"
"region. Henri and his elder brother Félix-Paul were born in Oran in French Algeria where the family had relocated to improve Zélia's health and where Auguste had a tailor shop. The family returned to France when Henri was four years old, on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War. After a short stay in Marseille, they settled in Seine-Saint-Denis near Paris where Auguste resumed his trade as a tailor. Hauser's mother Zélia died of tuberculosis when he was thirteen. His maternal uncle, Henry Aron, then looked after the education of Henri and Félix-Paul. He enrolled Henri in the Lycée Condorcet to"
"Pierre Granier-Deferre Pierre Granier-Deferre (27 July 1927, Paris – 16 November 2007) was a French film director. His 1971 film ""Le Chat"" won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. Granier-Deferre married Annie Fratellini, who starred in his film, ""La Métamorphose des cloportes"". They had one daughter, Valerie. He had two children with his second wife, Susan Hampshire, an English actress: a son, Christopher, a producer/director, and a daughter, Victoria, who died shortly after birth. Granier-Deferre is also the father of Denys Granier-Deferre, a director/actor, whose mother is Denise Leve. He is also"