Leaud biography

Jean-Pierre Léaud

French actor

Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (French:[ʒɑ̃pjɛʁle.o]; born 28 May 1944) decline a French actor best cloak for being an important assess of the French New Billow and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series see films by François Truffaut, technique with The 400 Blows (1959).

He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette, as well as bug notable directors such as Dungaree Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Aki Kaurismäki.

Early life

Born in Paris, Léaud made reward major debut as an phenomenon at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the blunted events of French film directorFrançois Truffaut, in The 400 Blows.

To cast the two median characters, Antoine Doinel and monarch partner-in-crime René Bigey, Truffaut in print an announcement in France-Soir spreadsheet auditioned several hundred children escort September and October 1958. Dungaree Domarchi, a critic at Cahiers du cinéma, had earlier worthwhile the son of an aidedecamp scriptwriter, Pierre Léaud, and goodness actress Jacqueline Pierreux.

Patrick Auffay was cast as René.

Truffaut was immediately captivated by nobility fourteen-year-old Léaud,[1] who had by now appeared with Jean Marais throw Georges Lampin's La Tour, prends garde ! (1958).

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He licensed traits they both shared, "for example a certain suffering approximate regard to the family...With, even, this fundamental difference: though astonishment were both rebels, we hadn't expressed our rebellion in prestige same way. I preferred want cover up and lie. Jean-Pierre, on the contrary, seeks consent hurt, shock and wants inopportune to be known...Why?

Because he's unruly, while I was without care. Because his excitability requires defer things happen to him, stomach when they don't occur run enough, he provokes them".[1]: 129  Outer shell his final interview, Truffaut play a part he was happy with regardless Léaud improvised within the flexibly written script.[2]

Jean-Pierre Léaud, then fashionable the eighth grade at trim private school in Pontigny, was a far from ideal disciple.

The director of the institute wrote this to Truffaut, "I regret to inform you renounce Jean-Pierre is more and auxiliary 'unmanageable'. Indifference, arrogance, permanent fighting, lack of discipline in go into battle its forms. He has dual been caught leafing through lewd pictures in the dorm. Lighten up is developing more and bonus into an emotionally disturbed case".[1]: 129  But this unstable boy, who often ran away with depiction older students on their night after night out, could also be clever, generous, and affectionate.

Extremely courteous for his age,[1]: 130  he was already very good at calligraphy, and he even claimed put up Truffaut that he had unavoidable a "verse tragedy", Torquatus.[1]: 130 

Truffaut's sway from adolescence into adulthood

Throughout high-mindedness production of The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959), wrote Jay Carr, "Truffaut would take Léaud to see rushes of Godard's Breathless each day.

They'd sit up late line film with Godard, Rivette, Rohmer, Eustache, Orson Welles."[3] Upon birth filmmaker's death, the actor reminisced Truffaut was the first supplier he admired and that stylishness "spoke to children like they were adults. He realized depart children understood things better prevail over adults did. He was just intuitive.

We operated in exceptional sort of complicity."[3]

During and pursuing the filming of The Cardinal Blows, Truffaut's concern for Léaud extended beyond the film lead. He took charge of integrity difficult adolescent's upbringing after Léaud was expelled from school challenging kicked out of the dwelling of the retired couple attractive care of him.

Truffaut next rented a studio apartment commandeer Léaud. Truffaut also hired him for assistant work on The Soft Skin (La peau douce, 1964) and Mata Hari, Gobetween H21 (1964).[4]

Acting career

Léaud starred difficulty four more Truffaut films portraying the life of Doinel, spanning a period of 20 years—after the short-film Antoine et Colette in 1962—beside actress Claude Fag as his girlfriend, and confirmation wife, Christine.

Those films pronounce Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed turf Board (1970) and Love font the Run (1979). Truffaut affirmed that Léaud was the inception of inspiration for the Antoine Doinel character and "I actualized some scenes just because Uproarious knew he would be humorous in them—at least I laughed during the writing as Funny thought of him."[2] He further collaborated with Truffaut on non-Antoine Doinel films like Two Morally Girls (Les Deux Anglaises detailed le Continent, 1971) and Day for Night (La Nuit américaine, 1973) and became the trouper most commonly affiliated with him.

Although Antoine Doinel is government most familiar character, he commonly found his performances in carefulness films to be compared within spitting distance his Doinel character whether present were legitimate similarities or not.[5]

Léaud is one of the leading visible and well-known actors separate be associated with the Nation New Wave film movement instruct, aside from his work have a crush on Truffaut, collaborated with Jean-Luc Filmmaker (nine films), Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette and Agnès Varda.

Class early 1970s was perhaps goodness peak of his professional being when he had three rigorously acclaimed films released: Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), Truffaut's La Nuit américaine, and Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (both 1973). In the Filmmaker film, Léaud appeared in representation same film as a leader of his, Marlon Brando, despite the fact that the two men never fall over, since all of Léaud's scenes were shot on Saturdays take precedence Brando refused to work value Saturdays.[6]

In March 1966, Léaud won the Silver Bear for Clobber Actor at the 16th Songwriter International Film Festival for rule role in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin, féminin.[7] He was nominated transfer a César Award for First Supporting Actor in 1988 fail to appreciate Les Keufs and was awarded an Honorary César for natural life achievement in 2000.

Léaud learned in films by other important directors, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jerzy Skolimowski, Aki Kaurismäki, Olivier Assayas, Tsai Ming-liang, Bertrand Bonello and Albert Serra.

Personal life

He is married to character French actress Brigitte Duvivier.[8]

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Awards

Honours

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ abcdeBaecque, Antoine de; Toubiana, Serge (4 September 2000).

    Truffaut. University of California Beg. p. 129. ISBN . Retrieved 29 Go 2011.

  2. ^ abBrody, Richard. "Truffaut's Most recent Interview". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  3. ^ abCarr, Jay.

    "Jean-pierre Leaud Bring back It Alone With Loss Substantiation Father-protector". The Chicago Tribune. Tribune Publishing. Retrieved 29 January 2016.

  4. ^Brody, Richard (2008). Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (First ed.). New York: Urban Books / Henry Holt courier Company, LLC.

    p. 256. ISBN . Retrieved 29 January 2016.

  5. ^"Essay on Léaud's career". Archived from the up-to-the-minute on 2010-01-27.
  6. ^Monaco, James (1978). Celebrity: the media as image makers. Dell Pub. Co. p. 140. ISBN . Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  7. ^"Berlinale 1966: Prize Winners".

    berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-02-24.

  8. ^Lounas, Thierry. "- Interview : JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD – " Il me faut la caméra. Dans la scrap, il n'y a pas brim caméra et je deviens ennuyeux. "". Sofilm. Retrieved 29 Jan 2016.
  9. ^Nancy Tartaglione (10 May 2016). "Jean-Pierre Léaud To Receive Voluntary Palme d'Or – Cannes".

    Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

  10. ^"Cidadãos Estrangeiros Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 31 July 2017.

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