Julie Gavras

Julie Gavras

略歴

Julie Gavras is a French film director and screenwriter. She is known for her film Blame It on Fidel (2006). In 1998, she directed a short film called Oh les beaux dimanches! produced in Marseille by Comic Strip. Two years later, she directed her first documentary, From Dawn to Night: Songs by Moroccan Women. It was based on a play by Alain Weber mounted at the Bouffes du Nord theater in Paris during the Festival d'Automne. It was broadcast on Arte. In 2002, her second documentary film was released theatrically in France: The Pirate, the Wizard, the Thief and the Children. The film looks at a class of nine-year-olds who make a film at school. Her first fiction feature film, Blame It on Fidel, premiered at the Deauville American Film Festival in 2006. It was followed by Late Bloomers, a romantic comedy film starring Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt, which was screened at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Gavras, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Julie Gavras
Julie Gavras

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Les bonnes conditions
Cinematography
Documentary in which 8 Parisian adolescents with a silver-spoon upbringing are followed over the course of 15 years.
Les bonnes conditions
Writer
Documentary in which 8 Parisian adolescents with a silver-spoon upbringing are followed over the course of 15 years.
Les bonnes conditions
Director
Documentary in which 8 Parisian adolescents with a silver-spoon upbringing are followed over the course of 15 years.
Late Bloomers
Screenplay
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.
Late Bloomers
Director
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.
Eden Is West
La dame à la poussette
Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.
Blame It on Fidel!
Writer
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Blame It on Fidel!
Director
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Le Corsaire, le Magicien, le Voleur et les Enfants
Director
Oh les beaux dimanches!
Writer
A young and handsome couple who have apparently succeeded socially and as a family, share a sunny Sunday with their adorable son and relatives and friends. But time passes and the dreamy Sunday returns to harsh reality...
Oh les beaux dimanches!
Director
A young and handsome couple who have apparently succeeded socially and as a family, share a sunny Sunday with their adorable son and relatives and friends. But time passes and the dreamy Sunday returns to harsh reality...
Pereira Declares
Additional Dialogue
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
Cemetery Man
Assistant Director
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a bit.