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
Jean-Pierre Darroussin (born 4 December 1953) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France.
Theater
Filmography Actor
*1992: '' Riens du tout'' (directed by Cédric Klapisch starring Fabrice Luchini, Daniel Berlioux) ...
.
Life and career
Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Armenian father, whose family immigrated to France in the early 20th century after the
Armenian genocide
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...
. He evokes his paternal roots in his 2006 film ''Le Voyage en Armenie''. He has a working-class background, as his father is a worker on the
Marseille
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docks. Guédiguian became concerned with political questions and for a while was involved with the
French Communist Party
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. In 2008 he joined the
Left Party in France.
Like
Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Paul Pagnol (; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionabl ...
and
René Allio before him, he anchors his films in social reality. His films are strongly marked by the local and regional environment of the city of
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
, and in particular
L'Estaque
L'Estaque is a village in southern France, just west of Marseille. Administratively, it belongs to the commune of Marseille.
Overview
Many artists of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist periods visited or resided there or in the surroundin ...
(north-west Marseille), for example in ''
Marius et Jeannette.'' His 2011 film ''
The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' premiered in the
Un Certain Regard
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The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
2011 Cannes Film Festival
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.
He has been married to actress
Ariane Ascaride since 1975 and they have two daughters, Valentine and Madeleine.
Filmography
As filmmaker
As actor
*1990: ''L'Ami Giono: Jofroi de la Maussan'' (Telefilm)
*2002: ''
Lulu
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* Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, ...
'' as Marius
*2012: ''Rendezvous in Kiruna''
*2021: ''Twist à Bamako''
References
External links
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Les gens du cinéma
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1953 births
Living people
Mass media people from Marseille
French people of Armenian descent
French people of German descent
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
Left Party (France) politicians
European Film Awards winners (people)
Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
French film producers