Eugène Green (born 28 June 1947) is a U.S.-born French film-maker and dramatist. He is notable as an educator, training a generation of young actors in the revival of French baroque theatre technique and
declamation
Declamation (from the Latin: ''declamatio'') is an artistic form of public speaking. It is a dramatic oration designed to express through articulation, emphasis and gesture the full sense of the text being conveyed.
History
In Ancient Rome, decla ...
.
Films
* 2001 : ''Toutes les nuits'';
Alexis Loret, Christelle Prot, Adrien Michaux
* 2002 : ''Le nom du feu'' (short); Christelle Prot et Alexis Loret
* 2003 : ''Le Monde vivant''; Christelle Prot, Adrien Michaux,
Alexis Loret, Laurène Cheilan, Achille Trocellier, Marin Charvet, seen at the 2004 edition of Bafici
* 2004 : ''Le Pont des Arts'';
Natacha Régnier
Nathalie "Natacha" Régnier (born 11 April 1974) is a Belgian actress. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award, a European Film Award, and a César Award for her role in the 1998 film '' The Dreamlife of Angels''. Régnier is the first Belgi ...
,
Denis Podalydès, Adrien Michaux,
Olivier Gourmet
* 2006 : ''Les signes'' (short); Christelle Prot,
Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric (; born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film '' Quantum of Solace'', in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's ''Munich'', Wes An ...
, Achille Trocellier, Marin Charvet
* 2007 : ''Correspondances'' (short); Delphine Hecquet, François Rivière, Christelle Prot
* 2009 : ''
La Religieuse portugaise''; Leonor Baldaque, Adrien Michaux
* 2014 : ''
La Sapienza'';
Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot, Ludovico Succio, Arianna Nastro
* 2015 : Faire la parole (documentary)
* 2016 : ''
Le Fils de Joseph''
* 2017 : ''En attendant les barbares''
* 2020 : ''Atarrabi et Mikelats''
Stage director
various presentations of baroque theatre including:
*
Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western traditi ...
: ''
Mithridate
Mithridate, also known as mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum, is a semi-mythical remedy with as many as 65 ingredients, used as an antidote for poisoning, and said to have been created by Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus in the 1st cent ...
'' at the
chapel of the Sorbonne 1999.
*
Pierre Corneille: ''
La Suivante'' 1634 (Avignon, 1993 ; Paris, 1996), ''
Le Cid
''Le Cid'' is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille, first performed in December 1636 at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the same year. It is based on Guillén de Castro's play ''Las Mocedades del Cid''. Castro ...
'' (Avignon, Paris, 1995), ''
La Place royale ou l'amoureux extravagant'' (Avignon, Marseille, Paris, 1996).
Opera
*
Jean-Philippe Rameau: ''
Castor et Pollux'' (National Theatre, Prague, 1999).
Actor
* 2006 : ''Les Amitiés maléfiques'';
:fr:Emmanuel Bourdieu
* ''Fragments sur la grâce'';
Vincent Dieutre.
Own plays
* ''Julien le pauvre''
* ''La Parole dans le jardin''
* 1995 : ''Le Rêve dans le petit fer à cheval''
* ''La Pastorale du jardin du Luxembourg''
* ''La Vieille Charité''
Spoken word recordings
* 1999 : La Conversation: poems of
Théophile de Viau with
Vincent Dumestre performing works by
Robert de Visée
Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732/1733) was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar.
Biography
Robert de Visée's p ...
on the theorbo
* 2001 : La Parole baroque, CD accompanying book. Declamation of
Jean de La Fontaine, Le chêne et le roseau ;
Torquato Tasso, La mort de Clorinda (
La Gerusalemme liberata
''Jerusalem Delivered'', also known as ''The Liberation of Jerusalem'' ( it, La Gerusalemme liberata ; ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade i ...
); Théophile de Viau, La Mort de Pyrame ;
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
, The Death of Kings (Richard II), To be or not to be (Hamlet); Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Qu'est-ce que notre être (excerpt from Sermon sur la mort); Jean Racine, Je ne croiray point? (excerpt from Mithridate).
* 2002 : baroque declamation of ''Sermon sur la mort'' by
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet at
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
* 2003 : Présences: Essai sur la nature du cinéma (spoken word)
* 2007 : baroque declamation of
Charles Perrault, six tales from ''Contes de ma mère l'Oye'',
Alpha 922.
Non-Fiction
* 2001 : La parole baroque
* 2004 : Le présent de la parole. Les lieux communs.
* 2009 : Poétique du cinématographe
* 2010 : La religieuse portugaise
* 2011 : La communauté universelle
* 2015 : L'Ami du chevalier de Pas, portrait subjectif de Fernando Pessoa
Fiction
* 2003 : La rue des Canettes : Cinq contes
* 2008 : La Reconstruction
* 2009 : La Bataille de Roncevaux
[Eugène Green La bataille de Roncevaux 2009: roman - Page 336 "... du rapport que le personnage entretient avec sa langue. Eugène Green poursuit ici sa réflexion sur la parole, sur l'identité européenne, et sur la place de la spiritualité dans le monde contemporain. Eugène Green est cinéaste et écrivain."]
* 2012 : Les Atticistes
* 2014 : Un conte du Graal
* 2015 : L'inconstance des démons
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Eugene
1947 births
Living people
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
French male film actors
Lafayette High School (New York City) alumni
Film directors from New York City
Screenwriters from New York (state)
Male actors from New York City
American emigrants to France
Naturalized citizens of France