Lucas belvaux born 14 november 1961 is a belgian actor and film director. Karen gillan, harrison ford, cara gee adapted from the beloved literary classic, 20th century foxs the call of the wild vividly brings to the screen the story of buck, a bighearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his california home and transplanted to the. Attal plays a wealthy and highprofile businessman who is kidnapped and held for ransom. It was nominated for 4 cesar awards in 2010, including best film. After the ambitious grenoble feature film trilogy and the kidnap drama rapt 2009, his seventh feature 38 witnesses was the official. Director lucas belvaux and star yvan attal in person. Loosely based on the kidnapping of the french industrialist baron empain in 1978, rapt was a nominee in the 2009 cesar awards best film category. Lucas belvaux was born on november 14, 1961 in namur, wallonia, belgium.
Jan 10, 2014 belvauxs rapt and 38 witnesses both bowed at the unifrance rendezvous. Lucas belvaux celebrity profile check out the latest lucas belvaux photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. A fine drama and cautionary tale, rapt, director lucas belvaux, was a 2010 cesar nominee in several categories, including meilleur film best feature film and meilleur realisateur best director. The idea that cinema is also art protects us a bit. Rapt is a 2009 frenchbelgian dramatic film directed by lucas belvaux and starring yvan attal. Recommended though because of its cold as ice mood.
Lucas belvaux livres, biographie, extraits et photos booknode. Lucas belvaux iffr iffr international film festival. Belvaux started directing his own films in the early 1990s. Granted that the production values added a welcome veneer to this film, this seems another example of french cinemas inability to make a decent, plausable and exciting thriller. Its a movie with very little wasted motion or, for much of its length, wasted emotion. Dec 29, 2011 lucas belvauxs rapt could hardly seem more timely, tapping into the zeitgeist of the publics heightened outrage at powerful businessmen while retaining the timeless intrigue of the very best thrillers. Having sat through this film all i can say is that rapt makes one of robert pestons economic bulletins seem as exciting as a james bond film. By setting rapt in the present, the writer and director lucas belvaux sidesteps the post1968 political context that inevitably frames patty hearst, paul. Stanislas graff, a powerful industrialist, is kidnapped one morning from in front of his building by a commando of gangsters. Rapt is a film for our times, it takes a familiar kidnap plot ransom notes, cash drop offs, severed fingers etc. His new film, rapt, a taut thriller set in and around paris, begins with the kidnapping of stanislas graff yvan. As the unsavory details of a wealthy industrialists personal life are revealed in the press upon his kidnapping, the urgency to free him disappears. Belgian actordirector lucas belvaux on the run, an amazing couple, and after the life returns with an edgeofyourseat nailbiter inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of french industrialist edouardjean empain.
Lucas belvaux 1961, belgium moved to paris in 1979 to work as an actor in film, television and theatre. Lucas belvaux s solidly made thriller about a french industrialist whose dirty laund. With yvan attal, anne consigny, andre marcon, francoise fabian. Jul 17, 2010 t he belgianborn film maker lucas belvaux is best known for his 2002 trilogie. Christian bale, caitriona balfe, matt damon american car designer carroll shelby and driver ken miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for ford and challenge ferrari at the 24 hours of le mans in 1966. Plot a wealthy french industialist goes about his business, meeting government ministers in expensive restuarants, meeting his latest adulterous conquest, playing highstates poker reallybadly and generally behaving in the very worst way youd imagine the fat cats of wall streetlondons financial district would.
T he belgianborn film maker lucas belvaux is best known for his 2002 trilogie. Belgian filmmaker lucas belvaux loosely based his original screenplay on the 1978 abduction of baron edouardjean empain, and anyone familiar with the barons. The call of the wild family, drama, adventure directed by. Paris lucas belvaux s rapt is two movies, both excellent, for the. Drama examining the rise of the far right in france. His directing credits include the trilogie, consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. So begins a nightmare that will last several weeks.
Humiliated, abused, treated inhumanely, he resists, allowing his kidnappers no hold over him. I was slightly disappointed by lucas belvauxs last movie but i was maybe expecting too much after trilogy, belvauxs indisputable masterpiece. Le mans 66 biographical, action, drama directed by. Having seen yvan attal and anne consigny in other films, i thought the directionacting in rapt not as good as it could have been, the continuityas a bit shaky, and.
Nov 18, 2009 the film lacks star power but shrewdly promoted and with good word of mouth it could pay off handsomely at the box office. Avec yvan attal, anne consigny, andre marcon, francoise fabian, alex descas. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro. A kidnapping drama from belgian director lucas belvaux that is an intriguing, unusual take on the genre, writes peter bradshaw. He had several roles in films directed by claude chabrol, jacques rivette and olivier assayas. In its simplicity and terseness, its an ideal title for lucas belvaux s very good film about a highpowered abduction. The film is inspired by the true story of the kidnapping of edouardjean, 3rd baron empain, a very wealthy hungarianborn belgian aristocrat, which occurred in paris in january 1978. His new film, rapt, a taut thriller set in and around paris, begins with. Watch rapt 2011 full movie free online streaming tubi. Rapt film 2009 realise par lucas belvaux criminocorpus. Rapt is a 2009 french dramatic film directed by lucas belvaux and starring yvan attal.
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