''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 (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

and painter

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically d ...

. The film was written and directed by

Danièle Thompson Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman. She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films i ...

; it stars

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

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,

Déborah François Déborah François (; born 24 May 1987) is a Belgian actress. She is best known for her starring role in the Palme d'Or-winning film, '' The Child'' (2005), directed by the Dardenne brothers. In 2009, she won a César Award for Most Promising A ...

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 ...

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

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at the 89th Academy Awards.

Cast

** Lucien Belves as young Émile Zola *

** Hugo Fernandez as young Paul Cézanne * Alice Pol as Alexandrine Zola *

Hortense Cézanne Marie-Hortense Fiquet Cézanne (22 April 1850 – 1922) was a French Model (art), artists' model. She is best known for her marriage to Paul Cézanne and the 27 portraits, mostly in oil, he painted of her between 1869 and the late 1890s. Li ...

as Elisabeth Cézanne * Gérard Meylan as Louis-Auguste Cézanne * Isabelle Candelier as Emilie Zola * Freya Mavor as Jeanne *

Laurent Stocker Laurent Stocker (born 27 May 1973) is a French theatre and cinema actor, and a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. Life and career He trained at the Ateliers Gérard Philipe and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique fr ...

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 providing exposure and emoti ...

* Pierre Yvon as

Baptistin Baille Baptistin Baille was born as Jean-Baptiste Baille in France, in 1841 and he died in 1918. He was a professor of optics and acoustics at the École de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris and a close friend of Paul Cézanne, the impressionist ...

** 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, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

* 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). H ...

* Alexandre Kouchner as

Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...

* Romain Lancry as Anchille Emperaire *

Nicolas Gob Nicolas Gob (born 29 October 1982) is a Belgian actor who has worked extensively in television, both in serials and films made for TV. He has also appeared in several feature films. His work in television serials includes 35 episodes in the ro ...

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French 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 to Impressionism. Bor ...

* 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 air''. ...

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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 {{2010s-France-film-stub