Eugène Green (born 28 June 1947) is an American-born French filmmaker and dramatist. He is notable as an educator, training a generation of young actors in the revival of French baroque theatre technique and

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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 Bel ...

Denis Podalydès Denis Podalydès (; born 22 April 1963) is a French actor, scriptwriter, and theatre director of Greek descent. Podalydès has appeared in more than 140 films and television shows since 1989. He starred in '' The Officers' Ward'', which was ente ...

, Adrien Michaux,

Olivier Gourmet Olivier Gourmet (born 22 July 1963) is a Belgium, Belgian actor. Gourmet was born in Namur. He won the Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Actor award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for his role in ''The Son (2002 film), Le Fils'' ...

* 2006 : ''Les signes'' (short); Christelle Prot,

Mathieu Amalric Mathieu Amalric (; born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He has won several César Awards and the Lumière Awards. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film '' Quantum of Solace'', in which he pla ...

, Achille Trocellier, Marin Charvet * 2007 : ''Correspondances'' (short); Delphine Hecquet, François Rivière, Christelle Prot * 2009 : '' La Religieuse portugaise''; Leonor Baldaque, Adrien Michaux * 2014 : ''

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'';

Fabrizio Rongione Fabrizio Rongione (born 3 March 1973) is a Belgian screenwriter, film producer and actor with Italian citizenship. Career Rongione was born in Brussels, Belgium of Italian descent. He collaborated with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne in ''Roset ...

, 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 1639 – 21 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 tr ...

: ''

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 cen ...

'' at the chapel of the Sorbonne 1999. *

Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; ; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage ...

: '' La Suivante'' 1634 (Avignon, 1993 ; Paris, 1996), ''

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'' (Avignon, Paris, 1995), ''

La Place royale ''La Place Royale, ou l'amoureux extravagant'' () is a five-act comedy written by Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; ; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century ...

ou l'amoureux extravagant'' (Avignon, Marseille, Paris, 1996). Opera *

Jean-Philippe Rameau Jean-Philippe Rameau (; ; – ) was a French composer and music theory, music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of ...

: ''

Castor et Pollux ''Castor et Pollux'' (''Castor and Pollux'') is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 24 October 1737 by the Académie royale de musique at its theatre in the Palais-Royal in Paris. The librettist was Pierre-Joseph-Justin Bernard ...

'' (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 Théophile de Viau (159025 September 1626) was a French Baroque poet and dramatist. Life Born at Clairac, near Agen in the Lot-et-Garonne and raised as a Huguenot, Théophile de Viau participated in the Huguenot rebellions in Guyenne from 1615– ...

with

Vincent Dumestre Vincent Dumestre (born 5 May 1968) is a French lutenist. In 1997 he founded the ensemble Le Poème Harmonique. Career He studied the classical guitar at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and art history at the École du Louvre. Afterwa ...

performing works by

Robert de Visée Robert de Visée (1652-1730) 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 a composer for lute, theorbo and guitar. Biography Robert de Visée's place and d ...

on the theorbo * 2001 : La Parole baroque, CD accompanying book. Declamation of

Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine (, ; ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French Fable, fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''La Fontaine's Fables, Fables'', which provided a model for subs ...

, Le chêne et le roseau ;

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

, La mort de Clorinda (

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); Théophile de Viau, La Mort de Pyrame ;

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 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 Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French Bishop (Catholic Church), bishop and theology, theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses and literary works, he is regarded as a brilliant orator and lit ...

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont Saint-Étienne-du-Mont () is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine of St. Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris. The church also contains the tombs of ...

. * 2003 : Présences: Essai sur la nature du cinéma (spoken word) * 2007 : baroque declamation of

Charles Perrault Charles Perrault ( , , ; 12 January 162816 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his ...

, six tales from ''Contes de ma mère l'Oye'',

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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 RoncevauxEugène 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

* {{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