L’ACTEUR
France , 1975 / 5 min / without words / animation
Before entering the theatre stage, a young actor puts an old man’s makeup on.
In his dressing room, a young actor puts on makeup and slowly undergoes a transformation into an old man, entering the stage of the theatre to much acclaim. But what truth hides underneath the mask?
| Fri | 06/03 | 12:00 | Cinémathèque | without words | Public |
Born in 1939 in Besançon, France, Jean-François Laguionie studied applied arts before Paul Grimault initiated him to animation. He then started making his own first shorts. In 1978, he received the Palme d’Or for the Best Short Film in Cannes for Rowing Across the Atlantic. Afterwards he started to direct feature-length films with Gwen, the Book of Sand (1985), before working on A Monkey’s Tale (1999), a much more ambitious and mainstream film than his previous ones. In 2004 he adapted his own novel Black Mor’s Island, followed by Louise by the Shore which is released in 2016. The Prince’s Voyage (2019) is his sixth feature film and is set in the same world as A Monkey’s Tale.
- 2019 – Le Voyage du prince
- 2016 – Louise en hiver
- 2011 – Le Tableau
- 2004 – L’Île de Black Mor
- 1999 – Le Château des singes
- 1985 – Gwen, le livre de Sable
- 1978 – La Traversée de l’Atlantique à la rame (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm)
- 1976 – Le Masque du diable (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm)
- 1975 – L’Acteur (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm)
- 1974 – Potr’ et la fille des eaux (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm)
- 1972 – Hélène ou le malentendu (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm)
- 1971 – Plage privée (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm
- 1969 – Une Bombe par hasard (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm)
- 1967 – L’Arche de Noé (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm)
- 1965 – La Demoiselle et le violoncelliste (court-métrage / short / Kurzfilm)
