Mathieu Demy | |
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 Demy in 2012 | |
| Born | 15 October 1972 Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
| Parent(s) | Jacques Demy Agnès Varda |
| Relatives | Rosalie Varda (half-sister) |
Mathieu Demy (born 15 October 1972) is a French actor, film director, and producer. [1] [2]
He is the son of French film directors Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
Demy started as a young actor in Agnès Varda's films L'une chante, l'autre pas ( One Sings, the Other Doesn't ), Documenteur , Mur Murs and Kung Fu Master . [3]
Demy's work as an actor ranges from romantic comedy to drama. His breakthrough came in 1998, when he was cast as Olivier, a young man with AIDS, in the musical Jeanne et le Garçon formidable , directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.
In 1999, he started a company, Les Films de l’Autre, to produce his own short films. In 200, he produced and directed his first film, Le Plafond (35’), adapted from a short story by Tonino Benacquista. The film received the audience award at the Angers film festival Festival Premiers Plans and the Uppsala International Short film Festival, and additional awards in Pantin, Rennes, Dignes and Mamers.
In 2001, Demy worked for director Benoît Cohen in the film Les Acteurs anonymes. They reunited for Nos enfants chéris (Our Precious Children), in which he played Martin, a 30-year-old who meets his great love again just as he's about to become a father.
In 2001, Demy received the best actor award at the Festival de Paris for Quand on sera grand directed by Renaud Cohen. The Festival Européen Cinessone awarded him twice for acting: in 2003 for Mister V. by Émilie Deleuze and in 2004 for Le Silence by Orso Miret.
In 2005, Les Films de l’Autre produced Demy's second short film, La Bourde (20’), an experimental comedy.
Demy reprised his role as Martin for the TV adaptation of Nos enfants chéris, which aired on Canal+ in 2007–2008. He was cast by Pascal Bonitzer for Le Grand Alibi and worked twice for Philippe Barassat, in Folle de Rachid en transit sur Mars and in Lisa et le pilote d’avion. In 2009, he also starred in André Téchiné's La Fille du RER and in the television drama Mes chères études, directed by Emmanuelle Bercot and dealing with a students' prostitution.
In 2011, Demy appeared in Céline Sciamma's Tomboy and was cast as the lead in the romantic comedy L'Art de séduire by Guy Mazarguil.
The same year, Demy wrote, directed and produced his first feature film, Americano . [1] Demy also stars in the film along with Salma Hayek and Geraldine Chaplin.
Since 2012 Demy has continued to act in films such as Les Conquerants by Xabi Molia or My LIttle One by Frédéric Choffat and Julie Gilbert. Demy has also been involved in French television shows such as Eric Rochant's multi-awarded Le Bureau des Légendes for which he directed two episodes in season 1 and 3 episodes in season 3. Demy also had a part in the show as Clément Migaud, Marie-Jeanne's lover.
In 2019 Demy starred in Mytho along with Marina Hands. The show was created by Anne Berest and Fabrice Gobert ("Les revenants") and was broadcast on Arte, where it gathered 2 million views, and available on Netflix for the international audience. The shooting of season 2 was interrupted by COVID-19 and completed in the fall of 2020.
In 2021-2022 Demy worked on Julie Delpy's Netflix TV show On the Verge. He directed four of the twelve episodes and plays Delpy's narcissistic husband.
Working mostly in Europe since 2022, Demy acted in All to Play For by Delphine Deoget and Club Zero by Jessica Hausner. Both films were selected in the 2023 Cannes film Festival, respectively in the Un Certain Regard selection and the Official competition.
The Deauville American Film Festival is a yearly film festival devoted to American cinema, which has taken place since 1975 in Deauville, France.
Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity, lush musical scores and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).
Love Songs is a 2007 French musical film directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Clotilde Hesme and Chiara Mastroianni. It was one of the 20 films selected for the main competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
The 19th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1993 and took place on 26 February 1994 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Gérard Depardieu and hosted by Fabrice Luchini and Clémentine Célarié. Smoking / No Smoking won the award for Best Film.
The French Syndicate of Cinema Critics has, each year since 1946, awarded a prize, the Prix Méliès, to the best French film of the preceding year. More awards have been added over time: the Prix Léon Moussinac for the best foreign film, added in 1967; the Prix Novaïs-Texeira for the best short film, added in 1999; prizes for the best first French and best first foreign films, added in 2001 and 2014, respectively; etc.
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Kung Fu Master is a 1988 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival.
Americano is a 2011 French drama film written and directed by Mathieu Demy. Demy also stars alongside Geraldine Chaplin, Salma Hayek and Chiara Mastroianni. Demy's mother, Agnès Varda, who was also a filmmaker, served as a producer on the project. The film received its première at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2011 and later that month, was also screened at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it competed for the Kutxa-New Directors Award. In October it was played at the 55th BFI London Film Festival.
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't is a 1977 French film written and directed by Agnès Varda that focuses on the lives of two women over 14 years against the backdrop of the Women's Movement in 1970s France.
Beatrice is a 1987 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Julie Delpy and Nils Tavernier. Set in a castle in France during the Hundred Years' War, it recounts the sufferings of Béatrice at the hands of her brutal father.
The Conquerors is a 2013 French adventure comedy film directed by Xabi Molia, with stars Mathieu Demy, Denis Podalydès and Christian Crahay, with the director playing a seventh-billed supporting role.
Marie-Armelle Deguy is a French actress, the daughter of poet and essayist Michel Deguy.
Women Make Film is a documentary film by the British-Irish filmmaker and film critic Mark Cousins. The film premiered on 1 September 2018 at the Venice Film Festival, and was released on the BFI Player in May 2020.
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Meet the Barbarians is a 2024 French comedy drama film directed by Julie Delpy. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2024.
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