Pascal Cervo

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Pascal Cervo
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Pascal Cervo in November 2017
Born (1977-07-16) 16 July 1977 (age 45)
Occupation(s)Actor, director, screenwriter
Years active1993–present

Pascal Cervo (born 16 July 1977) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. [1]

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Life and career

Pascal Cervo grew up in Soisy-sur-Seine, Essonne, France.

He was discovered at the age of 16 while shopping in Paris by Catherine Corsini for her film Les Amoureux (with Nathalie Richard), where he played Marc, a teenager who began to realize his homosexuality. He then played in À toute vitesse (Full Speed), a film by young Gaël Morel where he was Quentin, a writer that everyone falls in love with. Pascal Cervo pursues a career of strong loyalty, working with art filmmakers such as Gaël Morel, Laurent Achard, Paul Vecchiali (of whom Cervo is one of his favorite and recurring actors), Pierre Léon, etc. He also worked with Jean-Claude Biette and Robert Guédiguian and played in TV series and in theatre.

He directed three short films, the first in 2008 Valérie n'est plus ici (Valérie is not here anymore), then Monsieur Lapin (Mister Rabbit) - a reflection on loneliness - in 2013 and Hugues in 2017 which won the short film prize of festival of Pantin. [2]

Pascal Cervo replies to Catherine Deneuve in Le Cancre (2016). He was recently praised for his first role in Jours de France (Four Days in France [3] ) in 2017, where he interprets Pierre who after leaving his companion Paul (Arthur Igual) travels France randomly and meets unknown people using Grindr.

Filmography

As actor

As actor in short films

As filmmaker

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References

  1. "Pascal Cervol - IMDb". Internet Movie Database . Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  2. Côté Court Film Festival 2017
  3. Four Days in France IMDb
  4. Deux Rémi, deux IMDb
  5. Drôle d'oiseaux IMDb
  6. vodkaster.com : Enfant chéri
  7. Interview with Pascal Cervo (YouTube), September 5, 2014
  8. Film presentation at festival du cinéma in Brive, June 2017, Daily Motion
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