Patrice Leconte
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Patrice Leconte (Template:IPA; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, screenwriter and comic strip writer.
Life and career
Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. While attending film school in the late 1960s, Leconte also worked as a cartoonist, in particular for comics magazine Pilote. In 1976, Leconte directed his first feature film, Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur, a parody of crime films, scripted by Pilote author Gotlib and starring Jean Rochefort and Coluche. The film was a commercial failure.
In 1978, Leconte found success by directing the comedy troupe of Le Splendid in French Fried Vacation (Les Bronzés) based on one of their own plays. The film was a major commercial hit in France. Leconte then directed the sequel, French Fried Vacation 2, followed by three other successful comedies. Leconte remained associated with Le Splendid by working with troupe member Michel Blanc, who starred in his films and co-wrote the scripts with him. In 1985, Leconte changed register and directed the action film Les Spécialistes, which was another box-office hit.
In 1987, Leconte changed tone again by directing the melancholic comedy drama Tandem, starring Jean Rochefort and an actor from Le Splendid troupe, Gérard Jugnot, who played his first serious role. In 1989, in a more radical departure from his previous work, he again directed a Le Splendid actor, this time Michel Blanc, in a dramatic role, in the crime drama Monsieur Hire. The latter film was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and helped Leconte gain international attention<ref name="festival-cannes.com">Template:Cite web</ref> Although he had already directed more than half a dozen features, many foreign critics, unfamiliar with his previous work, essentially treated him as a newcomer. Since then, he has alternated between films such as Ridicule and L'homme du train which have had success in the international arthouse market, and others, like Les Grands Ducs, destined to the French mainstream market.
In the 2000s, Patrice Leconte received more recognition in the United States with the successful United States releases of Girl on the Bridge, The Widow of Saint-Pierre, Man on the Train and Intimate Strangers (Paramount Classics released three of these films in the United States<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>). Ryan Mottesheard of IndieWIRE wrote: "you could even argue that no other foreign filmmaker (INCLUDING Pedro Almodóvar) has had as strong of an impact on United States arthouses."<ref>Ryan Mottesheard: Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About "Intimate Strangers Template:Webarchive in IndieWIRE, 30 July 2004</ref>
An English language remake of Leconte's film Man on the Train was remade by an independent Hollywood studio in 2011, and two others are in 'development': Intimate Strangers and My Best Friend.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2006, he directed French Fried Vacation 3, with the former members of Le Splendid troupe reprising their roles 27 years after the first sequel. The film was another box-office success in France.
Patrice Leconte's film, The Suicide Shop, was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, California, on 28 April and 2 May 2013.<ref name="Screening">Template:Cite web</ref> Also in 2013, he directed his first English-language film, A Promise.
Filmography
Short film
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | L'Espace vital | |
| 1971 | Le Laboratoire de l'angoisse | |
| 1973 | La Famille heureuse (Famille Gazul) | |
| 1991 | Pour Alexandre Goldovitch, URSS | Segment of Contre l'oubli |
| 1992 | Le batteur du Boléro | |
| 2007 | Trac | |
| Dix films pour en parler |
Feature film
Documentary film
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | The King of Ads | Segment "Pilote commercial" |
| 1995 | Lumière and Company | Segment "La Ciotat 1996" |
| 2004 | Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux |
Television
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Sueurs froides | 1 Episode |
Box-office
| Year | Title | Performance | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur | $3,483,367 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1978 | French Fried Vacation | $17,314,830 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1979 | French Fried Vacation 2 | $11,518,357 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1981 | Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine | $21,151,267 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1982 | Ma femme s'appelle reviens | $8,916,300 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1983 | Circulez y a rien à voir ! | $8,133,292 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1985 | Les Spécialistes | $39,896,565 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1987 | Tandem | $4,483,185 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1989 | Monsieur Hire | $5,980,540 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1990 | The Hairdresser's Husband | $2,687,602 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1993 | Tango | $4,798,440 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1994 | Le Parfum d'Yvonne | $1,191,270 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1996 | Les Grands Ducs | $3,755,175 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Ridicule | $35,519,611 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 1998 | Une chance sur deux | $7,926,075 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1999 | Girl on the Bridge | $11,171,846 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2000 | The Widow of Saint-Pierre | $12,990,288 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2001 | Félix et Lola | $480,382 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2002 | Rue des Plaisirs | $1,873,072 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| The Man on the Train | $7,582,447 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 2004 | Intimate Strangers | $7,460,079 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2006 | French Fried Vacation 3 | $83,897,719 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| My Best Friend | $13,186,926 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 2008 | Beauties at War | $3,016,611 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2011 | Voir la mer | $248,092 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2012 | The Suicide Shop | $2,229,885 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2013 | A Promise | $385,486 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2014 | Do Not Disturb | $7,551,502 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2022 | Maigret | $4,420,841 | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
Awards and nominations
Notes
- Lisa Downing, Patrice Leconte (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)
References
External links
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- 1947 births
- Living people
- French male screenwriters
- 20th-century French screenwriters
- 21st-century French screenwriters
- Best Director César Award winners
- Film directors from Paris
- Institut des hautes études cinématographiques alumni
- Directors of Best Film César Award winners
- Directors of Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award winners