Native name عبد اللطيف كشيش Nominations Golden Lion Role Actor | Name Abdellatif Kechiche Years active 1982–present | |
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Occupation Actor, film director, screenwriter, producer Movies Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Couscous, Games of Love and Chance, Black Venus, Poetical Refugee Similar People Adele Exarchopoulos, Lea Seydoux, Julie Maroh, Saartjie Baartman, Salim Kechiouche | ||
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Abdellatif Kechiche ([abdɛlatif keʃiʃ]; Tunisian Arabic: عبد اللطيف كشيش, born 7 December 1960) is a Tunisian-French actor, film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with La Faute à Voltaire, which he also wrote. His film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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- Extracts in conversation with abdellatif kechiche
- Blue is the warmest colour abdellatif kechiche q a bfi
- Life and career
- Filmography
- References
Blue is the warmest colour abdellatif kechiche q a bfi
Life and career
Born in Tunis, he moved with his parents to Nice at the age of six.
He directed Games of Love and Chance, known as L'esquive, which won a César Award for Best Film and Best Director. He presented The Secret of the Grain at the 64th Mostra del Cinema in Venice for which he was awarded the Special Jury Prize. The film also received the FIPRESCI Prize, the Louis Delluc Prize and the César Awards for Best Film and Best Director.
As an actor, his introduction to most English-speaking audiences was starring as Ashade the taxi driver in the 2005 psychological thriller Sorry, Haters, an "official selection" in both the Toronto International and American Film Institute's film festivals.
He was decorated by the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2005 and in 2008.
His 2013 film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Several days later a controversy erupted about Kechiche's work methods; technicians on the film accused him of harassment, unpaid overtime and violations of labour laws. The two main actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, who were also awarded the Palme d'Or, had complained about Kechiche's behaviour during the shooting but later, in an extensive interview, claimed that although he was difficult to work with it had been worth it, as he was a great filmmaker. The film also won Best International Independent Film at the British Independent Film Awards in 2013.