Éric Caravaca

Éric Caravaca

Nascimento : 1966-11-21, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

História

Éric Caravaca (born 21 November 1966) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. The son of an engineer, Caravaca (of Spanish origin) studied literature while taking acting lessons. After obtaining his degree, he left for Paris, where he joined l'École nationale supérieure d'arts et techniques du théâtre, and completed his formation at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique. He then went to New York City in 1993, where he studied at the Actors Studio for a year. Upon his return to France, he began his career in theatre and gained attention in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He made his film debut in 1996, in Un samedi sur la terre by Diane Bertrand. He played mostly small roles until C'est quoi la vie?, directed by François Dupeyron in 1999, which earned him the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He worked again with Dupeyron in La chambre des officiers in 2001, and appeared as Luc in Patrice Chéreau's film Son frère in 2003, opposite Bruno Todeschini. He directed his first film The Passenger in 2005, in which he also played a role (Thomas), opposite Julie Depardieu, which was presented at the Venice Film Festival. (Wikipedia)

Perfil

Éric Caravaca

Filmes

La vie, l'amour, tout de suite
Christian
Julie would have given up all her dreams if she had listened to the doctors, her parents and others: the disease was threatening to suffocate her lungs. But the sixteen year old did as she pleased, devouring life to the fullest. Madly in love with her first flirt of the same age, she falls pregnant with him and decides to keep the baby. She hides her pregnancy from her parents, from the doctors, and come what may. Julie has defied the adult world, armed with a conviction in the form of a lesson for all: it is because life can be short that it must be intense.
Angry Annie
Dr. Chevals
Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions. But, in the seventies, Annie will encounter allies and opponents along the way.
Le colosse aux pieds d'argile
Sebastien is a former rugby player. Between the ages of 12 and 16, everyone sees him as a child full of joie de vivre. A characteristic of his native South-West. This joie de vivre is only a smokescreen to protect the balance of his family. Four years that Sébastien is raped. Four years that he suffers and cries out in silence because his predator is none other than one of his parents' relatives, loved by all. Thirty years later, Sébastien has not been able to speak, and his demons are destroying him.
Romanin, l'autre Jean Moulin
Through his double creator, hidden behind a pseudonym - Romanin, an original and surprising portrait of Jean Moulin, a mischievous compulsive illustrator with a passion for modern art.
The Way to Happiness
Pierre Aslon / Daniel Silberstein
Saul escaped the coming Shoah as a child by being sent from Vienna to Brussels by a Kindertransport. Now in 1986, he is on the road to resilience and owner of a Delicatessen dedicated to the "Septième Art" - the movies. With Joakin, his protégé, a young Chilean director, they decide to write the story of Saul's childhood and make it into a film. But love comes knocking at his door and confronts him with his past as a hidden child...
15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour
Publisher
"Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy.
Entre ses mains
Damien
Clara, a lawyer in Annecy, leads a serene but monotonous life with her husband Damien and their two children. One night, she falls under the spell of a mysterious sculptor, Stéphane. This one torrid night will have dramatic repercussions for her and her family...
Off-Season
Richard
A seaside resort in the middle of winter, with its abandoned beach bars and rain-battered alleys, can easily flank the drone. Refugees on the top floor of a building in La Grande Motte, Carole and Richard Lazure have zero morale: swindled by their tax advisor and badly defended by an incompetent lawyer, they lost their business, their house and no longer even enough to buy the essentials. The eruption into their life of a childhood friend of Richard, a talkative talker with questionable dating, could be a game-changer - or make their situation worse.
The Spanish Flu - The Great Killer
Naratuer - Voix
In April 1918, a disease of unknown origin swept across the five continents. In 18 months, millions of lives that had not been taken by the war were swept away by a virus that would cause the worst pandemic in history: the Spanish flu.
The Dazzled
Frédéric Lourmel
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
The Phoney War
Self - Narrator (voice)
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.
Graças a Deus
Gilles Perret
Um dia, Alexandre toma coragem para escrever uma carta à Igreja Católica, revelando um segredo: quando criança, foi abusado sexualmente pelo padre Preynat. Os psicólogos da Igreja tentam ajudar mas não conseguem ocultar o fato de que o criminoso jamais foi afastado do cargo, pelo contrário: continua atuando junto à crianças. Alexandre toma coragem e publica sua carta, o que logo faz aparecerem muitas outras denúncias de abuso cometidas pelo mesmo padre, além da conivência do cardeal Barbarin, que sempre soube dos crimes, mas nunca tomou providências. Juntos, Alexandre, François e Emmanuel criam um grupo de apoio para aumentar a pressão na justiça por providências. Mas eles terão que enfrentar todo o poder da cúpula da Igreja.
Plot 35
Writer
Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died aged three, is buried. The sister about whom I was told nothing, or nearly nothing, and of whom my parents had oddly never kept a single photograph. It was to make up for the missing images that I decided to make this film. Thinking that I would simply chronicle a forgotten life, in fact I opened up the hidden door to a past that I was unaware of, to the subconscious memory that lies inside each of us and who makes us what we are.
Plot 35
Director
Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died aged three, is buried. The sister about whom I was told nothing, or nearly nothing, and of whom my parents had oddly never kept a single photograph. It was to make up for the missing images that I decided to make this film. Thinking that I would simply chronicle a forgotten life, in fact I opened up the hidden door to a past that I was unaware of, to the subconscious memory that lies inside each of us and who makes us what we are.
De volta à Borgonha
Le père
Após uma ausência de dez anos, Jean volta a sua cidade natal quando seu pai fica doente. Reunindo-se com sua irmã, Juliette, e seu irmão, Jérémie, eles precisam reconstruir seu relacionamento e confiar um no outro novamente para dar continuidade à vinícola da família.
Robert Doisneau - O Maior Fotógrafo do Século
Voice over (voice)
Através da transmissão de imagens inéditas e imagens de arquivo, este é um retrato intimista, uma análise aprofundada e afetiva sobre a carreira, a obra, a trajetória desde os bairros pobres onde viveu quando criança até o estrelato e a vida, em geral, de Robert Doisneau, um dos mais célebres e influentes fotógrafos franceses de todos os tempos.
O Sonho de Francisco
Leone
Na Itália do século 13, Francisco de Assis pregava uma vida simples e sem luxos. Elia da Cortona deixou posse e status para seguir Francisco. Juntos lutaram, às custas da amizade, pelo reconhecimento de seu grupo perante à Igreja Católica.
Voices from Chernobyl
Le cadreur (voice)
This film does not deal with Chernobyl, but rather with the world of Chernobyl, about which we know very little. Eyewitness reports have survived: scientists, teachers, journalists, couples, children... They tell of their old daily lives, then of the catastrophe. Their voices form a long, terrible but necessary supplication which traverses borders and stimulates us to question our status quo.
Nine Days in Winter
Writer
Unexpected Love
Pascal
Jeanne Dorwa, 57, faces early retirement when she falls head-over-heels in love with 35-year-old Pascal, throwing her life and everyone around her into turmoil.
Préjudice
Gaëtan
A challenging psychological drama where the carefully nurtured harmony of a family is shattered one lovely summer evening. Cédric, who is generally shut away in a world of his own, doesn't react very well to the happy news of his sister’s pregnancy.
Life-Changing Ad
Paul
Annette, 38, answers an ad from Paul, a farmer. She has only met him twice when she and her son Eric move in with him in the dead of winter. There Annette has to face Paul's hostile sister and her own past, which soon catches up with her.
Les brigands
Karl
Nobody from Nowhere
Capitaine Deveaux
Sebastien Nicolas is a reclusive realtor leading a double life – in his spare time he creates complex disguises based on acquaintances. Combined with minutely studied and rehearsed impersonations, Sebastien can disappear completely into other people's lives. Things spiral out of control after he impersonates the wrong man.
François Truffaut l'insoumis
François Truffaut (voice)
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his intimate story, from the streets of Paris to the filmmaking accolades and high profile marriages at the height of his career.
O Canto das Sereias
Eric
They turned 20, share the same dreams of glory. She is French of Arabic origin, struggles with her community to get some freedom. He has never met his parents, has no culture. Are their dreams strong enough to build a love story?
24 Days
José Fernandez
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Jean Seberg Forever
Narrator (voice)
French documentary about the life of American actress and New Wave icon Jean Seberg.
A Greek Type of Problem
Pierre
"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is happening like it should be during this month of August: as she arrives on Greek soil to organize her traditional festival with her tribe, Jo learns that the latter has been cancelled, courtesy of the economic crisis. The hour seems to be tragic but the maternal instinct grows stronger, she is ready to do everything for the happiness of her sons. Between squabbles and blood and destiny blows, this summer will be like no other.
State Conspiracy
Francois Lecuyer
French territory is threatened by a terrorist organization just before the presidential election. If the government doesn't answer its demands, programmed bombs will explode gradually on the national railway network. Despite the operation deployed by the anti-terrorist unit, the Home Office has no other choice but to call Franck Barrot, police superintendent well-known for his controversial methods, to neutralize the armed group. His investigation will lead him to the very top level of the terrorist organization: the government itself.
Emma
Pierre
Here Below
Martial
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
Frango Com Ameixas
Abdi
Nasser Ali Khan, o melhor violinista de sua época, desmorona depois que sua mulher, após uma briga, quebrou seu instrumento. Ao não encontrar outro violino digno, decide morrer em sua cama, começando assim uma viagem de lembranças e alucinações.
The Little Bedroom
Marc
Edmond se recusa a ir para um asilo ou abrir mão da sua autonomia, até que uma queda o deixa dependente da ajuda da acompanhante Rose. Com o tempo, o velho e a jovem começam a ficar mais próximos e se tornam confidentes um do outro.
Changer la vie !
Serge Moati
A documentary drama retelling the shift of Mitterand's policy. In May 1981, F.Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic, after more than twenty years in the opposition. He wants to change the life; he believes in the supremacy of politics over economics. He wants it to be fast and executes his programme to realise the socialist transformation. Two years later, Pierre Mauroy and Jacques Delors introduce an unprecedented austerity plan and open the parenthesis of austerity... that would never be closed.
Qui a envie d'être aimé ?
Antoine
Antoine is forty years old. Happily married to a woman he loves, father to two beautiful children, a brilliant lawyer, one could say that he has made a success of his life. But one day Antoine has an unexpected, irrational, and earth-shattering encounter. One that is also a little scandalous as well. Antoine encounters God, something he just did not expect. Not at all ! Nor did his wife.
The Counsel
Le flic
A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
Julien Hayoun
Um dos cinco irmãos que havia se afastado da família retorna, agora perseguido por um bando de traficantes. Ele revela um segredo, selando a união dos irmãos que juntos buscam vingança pelo assassinato do pai.
A Spot of Bother
Fabien
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
Le Bel Âge
Rafaël
At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but the girl carefully avoids this faraway figure, who is none other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, solitary, they represent two generations that are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by one another. Their lives will intertwine, as one seeks out her future and the other is tormented by his past.
The Two-Sided Mirror
Laurent Monastier
Alice is a happily married woman with Christophe, who loves her deeply despite suffering facial deformation. His life changes dramatically following a cosmetic operation, but also that of her husband, a man becomes extremely jealous and possessive.
Adieu De Gaulle, Adieu
Alain Peyrefitte
Paraíso a Oeste
Jack
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.
A French Gigolo
Marco
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
Family Values
L'inspecteur Vivant
Less and Less
Eric
Lisa, a young woman, tries to remember moments of her life with the help of her doctor. Voices resonate, images intermingle... moments of happiness suddenly appear. A few seconds later, she has already forgotten. The disease progresses. Life fades away.
Esta Noite
Villar
Estação de Santamaria à noite. Ossorio, homem dos seus quarenta anos, sai de um comboio, por entre uma multidão de refugiados e de soldados derreados. É numa cidade sitiada que este herói de uma resistência em fuga tenta reencontrar os seus antigos aliados e aquela que ama. Mas a situação agora é outra, e os amigos de ontem já não têm o mesmo discurso. Enquanto uma milícia desenfreada aterroriza a cidade, cada um só quer é salvar a própria vida.
Waiting for Someone
Jean-Philippe
Three story-lines run in parallel in a town in Ile de France. Louis, a divorced café proprietor, flirts with every woman he bumps into, but doesn't develop any deeper relationship with them, except a growing affection for Sabine, the prostitute he sees regularly at a local hotel. His sister Agnès is a teacher, and is apparently happily married to Jean-Philippe, but he works very hard and doesn't seem to have been giving her all the affection she needs recently. She bumps into Stéphane, a young man recently returned to the town whom she knew as a child. He is obsessively interested in a young family who live nearby. The film gradually explores the hidden feelings and desires of each of the main characters. Will any of them find happiness?
A Câmara da Morte
Moreno
While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run and the men stealing the ransom.
Ambitious
Julien Demarsay
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, bitchy Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
O Concílio de Pedra
Le père de Laura
Laura adota um bebê tailandês e depois de alguns anos começa a sentir alguma coisa diferente na criança. Após um acidente que o deixa em coma, Laura decide investigar a origem do menino e encontra muitas histórias estranhas e sobrenaturais.
Meu Coronel
René Acsensio
Um 'Coronel Reformado' é encontrado morto em Paris, algumas décadas depois de a Argélia ter vencido a luta pela independência da França. O tenente Galois é encarregado da investigação deste assassinato. Ela recebe o diário do tenente Guy Rossi, que serviu sob o comando do Coronel na Argélia em 1956, e foi relatado como desaparecido em ação desde 1957. As revelações encontradas no diário de Rossi vão muito além das ações do Coronel na Argélia e dão uma ideia de como A guerra da Argélia para a Independência estava realmente suja. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
The Right of the Weakest
Patrick
In the Belgian town of Liege, in order to buy a moped for the wife of their friend Patrick, three men decide to organise a large-scale hold-up. As expected, nothing goes to plan.
The Passenger
Thomas
When he learns of the death of his older brother Richard, Thomas sets out for Marseilles to identify the body. Having collected his brother’s possessions, he returns to their home town, hoping to recall their earlier life together. Here, Thomas insinuates himself into the company of Richard’s friends, whilst keeping his own identity a secret. As he does so, he begins to bring his brother back to life, although not all the memories are pleasant ones...
The Passenger
Director
When he learns of the death of his older brother Richard, Thomas sets out for Marseilles to identify the body. Having collected his brother’s possessions, he returns to their home town, hoping to recall their earlier life together. Here, Thomas insinuates himself into the company of Richard’s friends, whilst keeping his own identity a secret. As he does so, he begins to bring his brother back to life, although not all the memories are pleasant ones...
Si j'étais elle
Nicolas
Alex is the perfect snapshot of misogynist some of its charm: he leaves his wife Léa. Selfish, indifferent, absent, he combines all handicaps to Léa's eyes, to end, leaves him.
Inguélézi
Kader
When her husband dies, Geneviève loses her bearings. She runs away from her loved ones. But in the trunk of his car a clandestine man hid. He is Kurdish, his name is Khader and understands that she must drive him to England.
Hanging Offense
Sylvain Bazinsky
A strange investigation doesn’t erase the regrets of a grieving woman cop. Every four years, the past catches up with her. Every four years this woman is very afraid. Her fear is such that she feels it could kill her because in her dreams reality begins.
She's One of Us
Eric
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a supervisor to dinner. When the supervisor takes Christine on a spontaneous outing that disorients her, her oddities become something else. Can things ever be normal?
Monsieur Ibrahim
Momo - 30 Years Old
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
His Brother
Luc
Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, he decides he wants to bring Luc back into his life. The brothers soon become inseparable, and their new relationship begins to alienate their significant others.
Novo
Fred
After an injury, Graham suffers from short-term memory loss, which causes him to fall back into the abyss of amnesia every 10 minutes. Those around him both profit and suffer from his condition -- his sex-crazed boss, Sabine, tricks him into regular trysts, while his family tries to come to terms with the situation. But when temp Irene starts working at Graham's company, they fall into an affair that begins to make a mark on his memory.
Lovers of the Nile
Samuel
During the Second World War, in 1943, Anne Frendo, a young dreamer and artist, living alone with her father in Tunisia, discovers, by chance, the lifeless body of a French soldier, parachuted in. At the invitation of her aunt, Sophie Frendo, an Egyptologist, she sets out on a journey that leads her to Sfax, Egypt, taking with her a letter that the soldier had begun to write, and which seems to be intended for her.
The Officers' Ward
Adrien
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...
Enchanted Interlude
Albert
Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series of memorable adventures, couples fall into place but not quite in the right order. Alice blossoms elsewhere, Paul marries Eve and Vincent weds Marie. The 70s are in full swing. Thanks to the pill, women's lives change radically, sexology is in, feminists's voices can be heard loud and clear but unrestricted and free access to abortion has yet to be attained. Against the backtop of a decade marked by sexual liberation, these three girls and two boys will cross each other's paths, love one another, split up and reunite.
Unleaded
Ken
Passionate about the singer Elvis Costello, Ulysses works every Saturday at a gas station in the middle of nowhere to pay for his meteorology studies. Shy and suffering from stagnation when confronted with a conflict situation, he does not respond to the insistent advances of Marie, who lives across the street. At the same time, Anton and Mirek, two English gangsters, are combing all the gas stations in the area in search of a loot hidden in the toilets.
C'est quoi la vie ?
Nicolas
In this drama, three generations of the same family work together on a farm in rural France. Elderly Noel takes pride in having worked this land nearly all his life. His son Marc now carries most of the responsibilities of the farm (as well as the debts), and he's starting to buckle under the strain. And Marc's son Nicolas hasn't decided what to do with his life; he has little interest in farming, but he isn't sure where his real talents lie. One day, after helping his cows give birth to new calves, Marc gets word that he must destroy all his cattle to prevent the spread of Mad Cow Disease. This proves the last straw for Marc, and he commits suicide. Noel doesn't handle his son's death well and ends up in a retirement home, while Marc's wife gets a job as a cashier and Nicolas looks for work (with little success) while searching for a beautiful and mysterious woman to whom he gave a ride.
Life Doesn't Scare Me
Philippe
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
La voie est libre
Robert
This comedy is about a Métro worker, Jules, who penned seventeen unanswered letters to France's Minister of Transportation protesting being fired. When he learns that the Minister is to appear in person at the Lyons station to dedicate a new rail line, Jules is there hoping to speak with him in person; he carries a concealed gun and when he is unable to speak to the Minister, the normally mild Jules snaps and takes an entire train car hostage
Francorusse
Arts Gateway Student
Max is a kind of modern Zadig embarked upon an existential and sentimental quest. Jewish and Russian all rolled into one, he quickly feels cramped in his native Ukraine. One day, he leaves his parents, family and enemies for the city of his dreams: Paris. He discovers the capital and the occasionally ferocious and complex ways of its natives.
Love Reinvented
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.
A Saturday on Earth
Martin
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...
Inside
A lonely man talks to his camcorder and tells it everything he'd have liked to do if he hadn't fallen ill.