Gilles de Maistre

Gilles de Maistre

Birth : 1960-05-08, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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Gilles de Maistre (born 8 May 1960) is a French filmmaker, journalist, and actor who was nominated for a César Award. He is married to screenwriter Prune de Maistre and has six children. He is a half-brother of Patrice de Maistre and is a grand-nephew of the director René Clément. He is a descendant of the philosopher Joseph de Maistre. Source: Article "Gilles de Maistre" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Gilles de Maistre

Movies

Autumn and the Black Jaguar
Producer
Grown up in the Amazon rainforest, Autumn lives with Hope, the cute baby jaguar she adopted. However, a circumstance forces Autumn to return to New York. Autumn goes back into the jungle to save Hope from grave danger.
Autumn and the Black Jaguar
Writer
Grown up in the Amazon rainforest, Autumn lives with Hope, the cute baby jaguar she adopted. However, a circumstance forces Autumn to return to New York. Autumn goes back into the jungle to save Hope from grave danger.
Autumn and the Black Jaguar
Director
Grown up in the Amazon rainforest, Autumn lives with Hope, the cute baby jaguar she adopted. However, a circumstance forces Autumn to return to New York. Autumn goes back into the jungle to save Hope from grave danger.
Le Loup et le Lion
Director
After her grandfather's death, 20-year-old Alma decides to go back to her childhood home - a little island in the heart of the majestic Canadian forest. Whilst there, she rescues two helpless cubs: a wolf and a lion. They forge an inseparable bond, but their world soon collapses as the forest ranger discovers the animals and takes them away. The two cub brothers must now embark on a treacherous journey across Canada to be reunited with one another and Alma once more.
Big Five
Director
Forward: Tomorrow Belongs to Us
Director
They are called Cris, Jose, Paola, Amina, Zack or Anwarra - They never thought they were too young, too weak, too lonely to stand up against injustice or violence.
Mia and the White Lion
Original Concept
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
Mia and the White Lion
Producer
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
Mia and the White Lion
Director
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
The Quest of Alain Ducasse
Writer
What can be the quest of Alain Ducasse, the little boy of the Landes now become the chef and most recognized mentor of cooking in the world? What is a man looking for who already seems to have everything? 23 restaurants in the world, 18 Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse never ceases to create addresses that appeal to our time, to build schools, to push the boundaries of his craft to new horizons, his curiosity has no limit. He traveled the world relentlessly, for to him cooking was an infinite universe. This public man, however secret, accepted to be followed for nearly two years, thus opening us the doors of his universe, in perpetual evolution.
The Quest of Alain Ducasse
Director
What can be the quest of Alain Ducasse, the little boy of the Landes now become the chef and most recognized mentor of cooking in the world? What is a man looking for who already seems to have everything? 23 restaurants in the world, 18 Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse never ceases to create addresses that appeal to our time, to build schools, to push the boundaries of his craft to new horizons, his curiosity has no limit. He traveled the world relentlessly, for to him cooking was an infinite universe. This public man, however secret, accepted to be followed for nearly two years, thus opening us the doors of his universe, in perpetual evolution.
3 mariages et un coup de foudre
Director
Jambons d'exception, pour le meilleur et pour le pire
Director
Jusqu'au bout du monde
Producer
Virginie, a young woman french, goes to work to the Bresil...
Jusqu'au bout du monde
Writer
Virginie, a young woman french, goes to work to the Bresil...
Jusqu'au bout du monde
Director
Virginie, a young woman french, goes to work to the Bresil...
Voir le pays du matin calme
Director
Le Premier Cri
Director
Lost In Transit
Director
Roland and Jonas, two of the 500,000 would-be immigrants entering Europe illegally every year, try to find gainful employment to support their families in this Storyville travelogue.
Féroce
Director
Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French political party in order to assassinate the leader, Legle (Jean-Marc Thibault). Alain comes to this decision when his girlfriend's brother is murdered after he had defaced some of the party's paraphernalia. To improve the party's public stance on immigrants, Alain is hired as a security guard. Legle's daughter is attracted to Alain, who is tempted enough by the girl to abandon some of his religious convictions.
First Snow
Producer
On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.
Killer Kid
Director
Eleven-year-old Laïd lives in war-torn Lebanon. Chosen and trained by an extremist organisation, he has been forced to enter the adult world far too early. He has been transformed into a fanatical and programmed machine, whose life could be summed up in the words "kill without hesitation".Because of his intellect and his commitment to the holy war he is handpicked for a deadly assignment in Paris. But in order to get access to the target he has to learn how to merge in, to become an ordinary eleven-year-old. Karim becomes his role model. Karim is the same age as Laïd and grew up in one of the Paris suburbs. He is carefree and "hip" and becomes the perfect teacher in a world of skateboards, rap music and video games.Despite the cultural differences, despite the fact that one of them is an indoctrinated machine and the other one a perfectly ordinary carefree boy, a friendship begins to grow between the two.