Xavier Beauvois

Xavier Beauvois

Nascimento : 1967-03-20, Auchel, Pas-de-Calais, France

História

Xavier Beauvois ( born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film Of Gods and Men received the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as France's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Beauvois, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Xavier Beauvois

Filmes

Making Of
Drift Away
Jacques
No filme seguimos a história de Laurent, comandante da brigada da policia que planeia se casar com Marie, a sua companheira, mãe da sua filha Poulette. Este é um homem que ama o seu trabalho, apesar do confronto diário com a miséria social. Um dia, ao tentar salvar um homem que ameaça cometer suicídio, ele mata-o acidentalmente, levando a uma transformação enorme da sua existência.
Drift Away
Writer
No filme seguimos a história de Laurent, comandante da brigada da policia que planeia se casar com Marie, a sua companheira, mãe da sua filha Poulette. Este é um homem que ama o seu trabalho, apesar do confronto diário com a miséria social. Um dia, ao tentar salvar um homem que ameaça cometer suicídio, ele mata-o acidentalmente, levando a uma transformação enorme da sua existência.
Drift Away
Director
No filme seguimos a história de Laurent, comandante da brigada da policia que planeia se casar com Marie, a sua companheira, mãe da sua filha Poulette. Este é um homem que ama o seu trabalho, apesar do confronto diário com a miséria social. Um dia, ao tentar salvar um homem que ameaça cometer suicídio, ele mata-o acidentalmente, levando a uma transformação enorme da sua existência.
Michel Legrand: Sans demi-mesure
Self
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
Paris Pigalle - O Amor é uma Festa
Henri Pachard
Paris, 1982. Frank e Serge são detetives de polícia encarregados de investigar a indústria pornográfica parisiense em um bairro decadente onde traficantes de drogas rivais competem entre si. Para se infiltrar na máfia, eles assumem um peep show endividado. E, na tentativa de impulsionar o negócio, eles começam a produzir curtas-metragens pornôs. Um terreno perigoso que vai muito além do que eles poderiam imaginar.
A Casa de Veraneio
Le producteur
Uma cineasta vai passar férias em uma propriedade em Côte d'Azur com familiares e amigos. Apesar da linda paisagem, ela precisa lidar com um término recente e com os desafios de seu novo filme, enquanto o isolamento das pessoas ao seu redor as leva a externalizar uma série de sentimentos até então reprimidos.
As Guardiãs
Screenplay
França, 1915. Diversas mães agoram precisam criar sozinhos e cuidar de toda a estruturar familiar sozinhas, já que seus maridos foram para o campo de batalha. Hortense, uma dessas mulheres, decide contratar uma jovem para ajudar com os serviços na fazenda de sua família. O problema é que, com contratação de Simone, tudo pode piorar ainda mais no local.
As Guardiãs
Director
França, 1915. Diversas mães agoram precisam criar sozinhos e cuidar de toda a estruturar familiar sozinhas, já que seus maridos foram para o campo de batalha. Hortense, uma dessas mulheres, decide contratar uma jovem para ajudar com os serviços na fazenda de sua família. O problema é que, com contratação de Simone, tudo pode piorar ainda mais no local.
Maryline
Michel Roche
A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.
Va, Toto!
Deputy Mayor #1
An elderly woman discovers an adolescent wild boar on her doorstep and decides to adopt the beast as her last -- and most beloved -- child.
Deixe a Luz do Sol Entrar
Vincent
Isabelle é uma mãe divorciada, artista plástica de sucesso e mora Paris. Apesar de viver na cidade do amor, ela não tem muita sorte em seus relacionamentos, mas nunca desistiu de encontrar o parceiro ideal. Ela está em busca de um novo amor, mas um que seja verdadeiro.
Jean Douchet, Restless Child
Self
Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documentary reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a part of the history of Cahiers du Cinema and this art of loving to which he has devoted his existence.
Django
STO doctor
Retrata momentos marcantes da trajetória de Django Reinhardt, cantor e compositor considerado o pai do jazz na Europa, que sentiu na pele a tensão de fazer música na Paris ocupada pela Alemanha durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, em 1943. Mesmo com sua família perseguida e ameaçada pelos soldados nazistas, Django foi responsável, no período, por tocar o coração das pessoas através da música. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Chocolate
Jacques Potin
O jovem negro Rafael Padilha nasceu em Cuba em 1868 e foi vendido quando ainda era criança. Anos depois ele consegue fugir e é encontrado nas docas por um palhaço que o coloca nas suas apresentações. Em seguida, Padilha passa a ser conhecido como Chocolat, tornando-se o primeiro artista circense negro na França, um grande sucesso no final do século XIX.
O Preço da Fama
Director
Ao sair da prisão, Eddy é saudado por seu amigo Osman. Às vésperas do Natal, a falta de dinheiro se agrava. Assim, quando a televisão anuncia a morte do comediante Charlie Chaplin, Eddy tem uma ideia: roubar o caixão do ator e pedir um resgate à família!
Bodybuilder
Le comptable
Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.
Um castelo na Itália
Serge
Louise (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) faz parte de uma grande família burguesa italiana, que vive um período de transformações: enquanto seu irmão está doente, e os conflitos com a mãe aumentam, eles são forçados a vender seu castelo na Itália. Em meio a todas essas confusões, Louise encontra Nathan (Louis Garrel), jovem que se declara apaixonado por ela.
Turf
Commissaire Dubiton
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag…
In a Rush
François
Ada was settled in her life, she was pleased with it, or thought she was. She was one half of a couple who seemed happy, she'd had a child, was even due to get married, and wham... she met Paul... And this Paul was writer to boot, who lived alone with his grown daughter, had an exceedingly intrusive mother, and had the unfortunate idea of losing his father when this story had hardly got off the ground... Life started to gather speed. It was about time.
Adeus, Minha Rainha
Louis XVI
A notícia da tomada da Bastilha chega à Corte, afugentando nobres e servos que abandonam o Rei Luís XVI. Uma jovem leitora devotada à Maria Antonieta ignora os acontecimentos e inicia uma relação com a rainha durante a Revolução Francesa.
Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer
Early One Morning
Alain Fisher
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act.
L'Apollonide: Os Amores da Casa de Tolerância
No início do século XX, num bordel parisiense, uma prostituta com o rosto marcado por uma cicatriz ostenta um sorriso trágico. Em torno da mulher que ri, a vida das outras que trabalham no bordel, as suas rivalidades, as suas angústias, as suas dores do mundo exterior, não se sabe nada porque a casa está fechada, mas dentro das suas paredes tudo é possível.
Meeting with an Angel
l'homme au bar chic
Judith, a young nurse, is so meek in front of her husband Roland, that she can't manage to tell him that she has lost her job. When he learns this, he starts to follow her...He discovers that in a secret life, she is another mysterious and sublime person.
Homens e Deuses
Writer
Em um mosteiro encravado nas montanhas do Norte de África, na década de 1990, oito monges franceses vivem em harmonia com seus irmãos muçulmanos. Quando uma equipe de trabalhadores estrangeiros é massacrada por um grupo islâmico, o terror instaura-se na região. - Ganhou o Grande Prêmio do Festival do Cannes em 2010. - Ganhou o Prêmio do Júri Ecumênico no Festival de Cannes 2010.
Homens e Deuses
Director
Em um mosteiro encravado nas montanhas do Norte de África, na década de 1990, oito monges franceses vivem em harmonia com seus irmãos muçulmanos. Quando uma equipe de trabalhadores estrangeiros é massacrada por um grupo islâmico, o terror instaura-se na região. - Ganhou o Grande Prêmio do Festival do Cannes em 2010. - Ganhou o Prêmio do Júri Ecumênico no Festival de Cannes 2010.
Villa Amalia
Thomas
Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
À bicyclette
A young man being schizophrenic remission is seen taken by an obsession for bikes. He remembers a childhood where they exit traumatized by his inability to pedal. Nevertheless, he tries again to ride a bike and fall. It ends at the hospital. Two amazing fellows will then take over and help him.
Marie-Octobre
Marc Donizzi
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...
Contratadas Para Matar
Claude Granville
Maio de 1944. Cinco mulheres de uma unidade de comando saltam de pára-quedas na França ocupada com a audaciosa e perigosa missăo de proteger o segredo do desembarque do Dia D e eliminar o Coronel Heindrich, comandante da contra-inteligęncia alemă. Louise é uma atiradora treinada e viúva do líder da Resistência. Jeanne é uma prostituta sem sentimentos que năo hesita em matar. Gaëlle é uma jovem e brilhante expert em explosivos desesperada para ver alguma açăo. Suzy é uma estonteante showgirl que foi amante de Heindrich. Maria é uma condessa italiana encoberta pela a Resistência Francesa. Juntas elas lutarăo para manter o segredo do Dia D encoberto.
The Killer
Franzen
Leo Zimmermann, a business man from Paris dotes on his daughter. He proposes a strange offer to his killer when he is in town to execute Zimmermann.
24 Bars
Patron Peep-Show
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the coast. There they encounter Chris. All three will end the night together. It’s their last move in joy and perdition.
As Testemunhas
Publisher
Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
The Young Lieutenant
Screenplay
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
The Young Lieutenant
Nicolas Morbé
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
The Young Lieutenant
Director
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
To Mathieu
Writer
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...
To Mathieu
Director
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...
Night Wind
Dialogue
A housewife's affair with a younger man goes nowhere.
Night Wind
Paul
A housewife's affair with a younger man goes nowhere.
Disparus
Félix
Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the Soviet Empire crumbles in 1989. As Louise mourns the death of her lover, she discovers the journal of Alfred Katz, an earnest Jewish radical and erstwhile poet who disappeared in 1938. With the aid of a history professor, Louise unravels what happened to Katz. In the feverish climate of pre-WWII Paris, Katz reveals himself as both a fervent Trotskyite and an unabashed romantic. At a party thrown by the noted surrealist Andre Breton, he meets Mila, a beautiful part-time model, part-time whore. As soon as he falls for her, he learns of her other lover Felix, a fervent Stalinist. Bored with politics, Mila eventually marries Katz. Soon betrayal and politics catch up with the poet.
Day and Night
Carlo
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange lady-oracle Sonia (Lauren Bacall). As the film opens, the melancholy Alexandre is visited by the sensuous actress Laure (Arielle Dombasle) and her producer Raoul Fillipi (Karl Zero) who is going to make a movie of one of Alexandre's best-loved books. Laure is determined to play the part of the heroine and is willing to resort to seduction to get it. At the same time, Ariane is involved in a passionate affair with French-Mexican seismologist Carlo (Xavier Beauvois). While all of these characters wrangle and tangle with their different agendas, the local residents prepare for a violent revolution. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Ponette - A Espera de um Anjo
Le Père
Um filme extremamente cativante sobre a forma como uma menina lida com a morte da mãe. Ela se isola de todos ao seu redor, esperando sua mãe voltar.
Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Writer
Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia. Things seem to improve, but only for a short time...
Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Director
Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia. Things seem to improve, but only for a short time...
Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Benoit
Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia. Things seem to improve, but only for a short time...
Les Amoureux
Marc's lover
In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learning to trust himself and become independent.
Life's Little Treasures
Marc
This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.
North
Writer
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
North
Bertrand, the son
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
North
Director
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
The Sky Above Paris
Suzanne has had an affair which so traumatized her that she is out of the running, romantically. Perhaps that is why she is roommates with her gay best friend, Marc. However, just because one isn't going out on dates doesn't mean never seeing or being seen by anyone, and, one day while swimming in a public pool, Suzanne is caught by surprise by a lovely young man. Her new acquaintance, Lucien, begins to spend time with her and Marc. Romance blooms among the threesome: Marc falls in love with Lucien, but he is unlucky in that: Lucien and Suzanne have become lovers.
Daniel endormi
The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.