''Cézanne and I'' (original title: ''Cézanne et moi'') is a 2016 French

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based on the friendship between 19th century novelist

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, ; ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of Naturalism (literature), naturalism, and an important contributor to ...

and painter

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century a ...

. The film was written and directed by

Danièle Thompson Danièle Claude Renée Tannenbaum, also known as Danièle Thompson (born ) is a Monaco, Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman. Life Thompson was born ...

; it stars

Guillaume Canet Guillaume Canet (; born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and Show jumping, show jumper. Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like ''Joyeux Noël'', ...

Guillaume Gallienne Guillaume Gallienne (born 8 February 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He has received two Molière Awards for his stagework and has won two César Awards, one for writing and the other for his performance in his autobiogra ...

Alice Pol Alice Pol (born 3 December 1982) is a French actress. She is known for playing the role of Anna Zvenka in ''Supercondriaque ''Supercondriaque'' (also known as ''Superchondriac'') is a 2014 French comedy film written and directed by Dany Boon. ...

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and

Sabine Azéma Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French stage and film actress and director. Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Career Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in '' A Sunday in the C ...

. It was named as one of four films on the shortlist for the French submission for the

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at the

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Cast

** Lucien Belves as young Émile Zola *

** Hugo Fernandez as young Paul Cézanne *

as Alexandrine Zola *

as Hortense Cézanne *

as Elisabeth Cézanne * Gérard Meylan as Louis-Auguste Cézanne *

Isabelle Candelier Isabelle Candelier (born 12 June 1963) is a French film and television actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the tradit ...

as Emilie Zola *

Freya Mavor Freya Mavor (born 13 August 1993) is a Scottish actress. She is best known for her roles as Mini McGuinness in the E4 (TV channel), E4 teen drama ''Skins (British TV series), Skins'' and Daria Greenock in the HBO finance drama series ''Industry ...

as Jeanne * Laurent Stocker as

Ambroise Vollard Ambroise Vollard (; 3 July 1866 – 21 July 1939) was a French art dealer who is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century. He is credited with being a major supporter an ...

* Pierre Yvon as

Baptistin Baille Baptistin Baille () was born as Jean-Baptiste Baille in France, in 1841 and he died in 1918. He was initially a lecturer at École polytechnique, and then a professor of optics and acoustics at ESPCI Paris; a close friend of Paul Cézanne, the imp ...

** Jérémy Nebot as young Baptistin Baille * Félicien Juttner as

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and s ...

* Flore Babled as Angèle Baille * Romain Cottard as

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( ; ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). ...

* Alexandre Kouchner as

Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...

* Romain Lancry as Anchille Emperaire * Nicolas Gob as

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...

* Christian Hecq as Père Tanguy * Sophie de Fürst as Berthe * Patrice Tepasso as

Frédéric Bazille Jean Frédéric Bazille (; December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted '' en plein ai ...

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* 2016 films 2016 biographical drama films 2010s French-language films French biographical drama films Films set in the 19th century Biographical films about painters Biographical films about writers Films directed by Danièle Thompson Pathé films Cultural depictions of Pierre-Auguste Renoir Cultural depictions of Émile Zola Paul Cézanne Cultural depictions of 19th-century painters 2016 drama films 2010s French films France 2 Cinéma films French-language biographical drama films {{2010s-France-film-stub