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Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Directing

Biography

Jean-Paul Civeyrac (born 24 December 1964) is a French director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises (2003). This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003. Jean-Paul Civeyrac is professor at the French school, La Femis, and graduated from the University Lyon III (philosophy). Jean-Paul Civeyrac has discovered many young talents: Camille Berthomier in À travers la forêt, Valérie Crunchant in All the fine promises, Lucia Sanchez in Les solitaires, Renaud Bécard in Man's Gentle Love His movie À travers la forêt was presented at Festival Paris Cinéma (2 July 2005) and at Toronto International Film Festival 2005 September. In his survey of contemporary French cinema, Tim Palmer discusses Civeyrac's career in the context of his teaching at the major French film school, la Fémis; Civeyrac's status as an "applied cinephile" in which he carefully cites and revives the aesthetics of historical filmmakers like Mizoguchi and Cocteau; his neglected situation outside France; and his position as a remarkably uncompromising director, whose films often refuse to differentiate between fantasy and diegetic reality. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Paul Civeyrac, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

A Paris Education
5.8

Etienne comes to Paris to study filmmaking at the Sorbonne. He meets Mathias and Jean-Noël who share his passion for films. But as they spend the year studying, they have to face friendship and love challenges as well as choosing their artistic battles.

A Paris Education

2018
A Woman
4.8

Juliane, a police commissioner in Paris, is a woman with great moral integrity. But when she discovers her husband’s double life, she starts committing acts she never would have thought herself capable of.

A Woman

2022
My Friend Victoria
6.1

Victoria, a little black girl aged 8 from a humble background, happens to spend the night with the bourgeois family of Thomas, one of her classmates. Years later, they see each other again and Marie is the fruit of their fleeting relationship. But Victoria decides not to tell Thomas and raises her child alone. When Marie turns seven, Victoria decides that her daughter must have a better future and again turns to this family that she lost sight of long ago.

My Friend Victoria

2014
Through the Forest
5.5

After the death of Renaud, her boyfriend, Armelle can't possibly take him out of her mind. Her sister advises her to see a medium, in whose house she meets a boy who strangely looks like Renaud...

Through the Forest

2005
Life According to Luke
4.0

Few of the characteristics that can be associated with Jean Paul Civyrac can be seen in his first film, a 14 minute short feature. Inevitably, considering its short length, the film is necessarily very much a character study, since there is little room to develop much in the way of a plot. Luc (Jean Descanvelle) is a young man who is determined to do things his own way and consequently conflicts with everyone he meets. He doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks, isn’t interested in any advice they might have to give and is not interested in assistance from friends or family. He is going to do things his way, and do whatever it takes to make money, which is mainly performing sexual favours for any man who is willing to pay for it.

Life According to Luke

1991
Neither Eve Nor Adam
5.5

The story of a young boy with learning difficulties who is forced to fend for himself on the streets.

Neither Eve Nor Adam

1996
Man's Gentle Love
6.2

This is the story of a young man at the dawn of the 21st century. He belongs to the most vulnerable, most futile and most appealing segment of society. Raoul flits from woman to woman, searching for seemingly unattainable love, until he meets Jeanne, who is fated to live freely and tragically.

Man's Gentle Love

2002
Les Anges 1943, histoire d'un film
8.0

Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film is a documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2004, devoted to Robert Bresson's film Angels of Sin.

Les Anges 1943, histoire d'un film

2004
Fantômes
5.3

At the start of the new millennium, mysterious things are going on in Paris. People are disappearing, just like that, without explanation. They vanish into thin air and are never seen again.

Fantômes

2002
Young Girls in Black
6.2

Noémie and Priscilla, two teenagers from a modest background, nurture the same violence, the same revolt. They seriously worry their families, who feel that these girls are capable of anything...

Young Girls in Black

2010
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N/A

Short film.

Mon Prince Charmant

2006
The Lonely
4.6

Pierre's wife, Madeleine, is dead, but he still sees her in his dreams. One day, his younger brother, Baptiste, comes back to live with him. A new life is possible, but Eva, Baptiste's wife, comes back and divides the two brothers.

The Lonely

2000
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7.0

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Françoise in Spring

2012
Malika is Gone
N/A

Two friends, Marc and Nicolas, are a little lost in life. Malika, a foreigner living on the fringes, struggles for her survival. Perhaps a love affair begins between Marc and Malika - unless it's something else entirely.

Malika is Gone

2008
All the Fine Promises
4.4

Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress who is still alive. Her journey to find this mysterious woman takes her to places and people from her childhood that she thought she'd left behind forever.

All the Fine Promises

2003
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N/A

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Traverser la montagne

2018
An Hour with Alice
7.8

Alice and Paul both study at the Sorbonne University in the Latin Quarter. After a course, Paul, who is attracted to Alice, starts talking with her. They share the same ideas about philosophy and today's philosophers but while they go on with their conversation they realize that as far as cinema is concerned they are not at all on the same wavelength

An Hour with Alice

2012
A Day of Blues at Elena's
N/A

The Gus Van Sant retrospective at the Cinémathèque française in 2016 inspired this film by Jean Paul Civeyrac.

A Day of Blues at Elena's

2016
Sadness Beautiful Face
7.0

Where we learn how Orpheus seduced Eurydice.

Sadness Beautiful Face

2004
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6.0

No description available.

Louise, Sunday

2011