Abdellatif Kechiche

Abdellatif Kechiche
Kechiche at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Native name	عبد اللطيف كشيش
Born	(1960-12-07) 7 December 1960 Tunis, Tunisia
Occupation	Actor, film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1982–present

Abdellatif Kechiche (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.

Life and career

Born in Tunis, he moved with his parents to Nice at the age of six.^[1]

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.^[2]

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 and American Film Institute's film festivals.

He was decorated by the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2005 and in 2008.^[3]

His 2013 film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.^[4]^[5]^[6] 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.^[7] The two main actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, also 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.^[8] The film also won Best International Independent Film at the British Independent Film Awards in 2013.^[9]

Selected filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Poetical Refugee	Director
2003	Games of Love and Chance	Director	César Award for Best Director
2007	The Secret of the Grain	Director	César Award for Best Director Louis Delluc Prize Lumières Award for Best Director
2010	Black Venus	Director
2013	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	Director	Palme d'Or (shared with Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos) FIPRESCI Prize (2013 Cannes Film Festival) Best International Independent Film (2013 British Independent Film Awards) Louis Delluc Prize Lumières Award for Best Director

Reviews

Denby, David (12 January 2009). "The Current Cinema: Survivors". The New Yorker 84 (44): 72–73. Retrieved 27 March 2009. Review of The Secret of the Grain.

References

↑ Fiche Allociné sur Abdellatif Kechiche
↑ "The Secret of the Grain". Kaunas International Film Festival. Kaunas International Film Festival. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
↑ Quand Abdellatif Kechiche était décoré par Ben Ali, Oumma.com, 28 May 2013.
↑ "Cannes Film Festival: Awards 2013". Cannes. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
↑ "Blue is the warmest colour team win Palme d'Or at Cannes 2013". RFI. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
↑ "Cannes: 'The Missing Picture' Wins Un Certain Regard Prize". Hollywood Reporter. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
↑ Polémique autour du tournage de la «Vie d’Adèle», La Croix, 29 May 2013.
↑ DP/30 @ TIFF '13: Léa Seydoux & Adèle Exarchopoulos in Blue Is The Warmest Color. YouTube (2013-09-13). Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
↑ "Nominations 2013". British Independent Film Awards. Retrieved 9 December 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abdellatif Kechiche.

Abdellatif Kechiche at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Abdellatif Kechiche

Poetical Refugee (2000) Games of Love and Chance (2003) The Secret of the Grain (2007) Black Venus (2010) Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)

Palme d'Or winners

1930s 1940s	Union Pacific – Cecil B. DeMille (1939) Iris and the Lieutenant – Alf Sjöberg (1946) The Lost Weekend – Billy Wilder (1946) The Red Meadows – Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen, Jr. (1946) Brief Encounter – David Lean (1946) María Candelaria – Emilio Fernández (1946) Neecha Nagar – Chetan Anand (1946) The Turning Point – Fridrikh Ermler (1946) La Symphonie Pastorale – Jean Delannoy (1946) The Last Chance – Leopold Lindtberg (1946) Men Without Wings – František Čáp (1946) Rome, Open City – Roberto Rossellini (1946) The Third Man – Carol Reed (1949)

1950s	Miss Julie – Alf Sjöberg (1951) Miracle in Milan – Vittorio De Sica (1951) The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice – Orson Welles (1952) Two Cents Worth of Hope – Renato Castellani (1952) The Wages of Fear – Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953) Gate of Hell – Teinosuke Kinugasa (1954) Marty – Delbert Mann (1955) The Silent World – Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle (1956) Friendly Persuasion – William Wyler (1957) The Cranes Are Flying – Mikhail Kalatozov (1958) Black Orpheus – Marcel Camus (1959)

1960s	La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini (1960) The Long Absence – Henri Colpi (1961) Viridiana – Luis Buñuel (1961) O Pagador de Promessas – Anselmo Duarte (1962) The Leopard – Luchino Visconti (1963) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Jacques Demy (1964) The Knack ...and How to Get It – Richard Lester (1965) A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch (1966) The Birds, the Bees and the Italians – Pietro Germi (1966) Blowup – Michelangelo Antonioni (1967) if.... – Lindsay Anderson (1969)

1970s	MASH – Robert Altman (1970) The Go-Between – Joseph Losey (1971) The Working Class Goes to Heaven – Elio Petri (1972) The Mattei Affair – Francesco Rosi (1972) The Hireling – Alan Bridges (1973) Scarecrow – Jerry Schatzberg (1973) The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Chronicle of the Years of Fire – Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1975) Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976) Padre Padrone – Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1977) The Tree of Wooden Clogs – Ermanno Olmi (1978) Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979) The Tin Drum – Volker Schlöndorff (1979)

1980s	All That Jazz – Bob Fosse (1980) Kagemusha – Akira Kurosawa (1980) Man of Iron – Andrzej Wajda (1981) Missing – Costa-Gavras (1982) Yol – Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören (1982) The Ballad of Narayama – Shohei Imamura (1983) Paris, Texas – Wim Wenders (1984) When Father Was Away on Business – Emir Kusturica (1985) The Mission – Roland Joffé (1986) Under the Sun of Satan – Maurice Pialat (1987) Pelle the Conqueror – Bille August (1988) Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh (1989)

1990s	Wild at Heart – David Lynch (1990) Barton Fink – Coen brothers (1991) The Best Intentions – Bille August (1992) Farewell My Concubine – Chen Kaige (1993) The Piano – Jane Campion (1993) Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino (1994) Underground – Emir Kusturica (1995) Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh (1996) Taste of Cherry – Abbas Kiarostami (1997) The Eel – Shohei Imamura (1997) Eternity and a Day – Theodoros Angelopoulos (1998) Rosetta – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1999)

2000s	Dancer in the Dark – Lars von Trier (2000) The Son's Room – Nanni Moretti (2001) The Pianist – Roman Polanski (2002) Elephant – Gus Van Sant (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 – Michael Moore (2004) The Child – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2005) The Wind That Shakes the Barley – Ken Loach (2006) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – Cristian Mungiu (2007) The Class – Laurent Cantet (2008) The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke (2009)

2010s	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2010) The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick (2011) Amour – Michael Haneke (2012) Blue Is the Warmest Colour – Abdellatif Kechiche (with actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux) (2013) Winter Sleep – Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2014) Dheepan – Jacques Audiard (2015)

César Award for Best Director

	1976 Bertrand Tavernier 1977 Joseph Losey 1978 Alain Resnais 1979 Christian de Chalonge 1980 Roman Polanski 1981 François Truffaut 1982 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1983 Andrzej Wajda 1984 Ettore Scola 1985 Claude Zidi 1986 Michel Deville 1987 Alain Cavalier 1988 Louis Malle 1989 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1990 Bertrand Blier 1991 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1992 Alain Corneau 1993 Claude Sautet 1994 Alain Resnais 1995 André Téchiné 1996 Claude Sautet 1997 Patrice Leconte / Bertrand Tavernier 1998 Luc Besson 1999 Patrice Chéreau 2000 Tonie Marshall 2001 Dominik Moll 2002 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2003 Roman Polanski 2004 Denys Arcand 2005 Abdellatif Kechiche 2006 Jacques Audiard 2007 Guillaume Canet 2008 Abdellatif Kechiche 2009 Jean-François Richet 2010 Jacques Audiard 2011 Roman Polanski 2012 Michel Hazanavicius 2013 Michael Haneke 2014 Roman Polanski 2015 Abderrahmane Sissako 2016 Arnaud Desplechin

Lumières Award for Best Director

1996–2009	Mathieu Kassovitz (1996) Cédric Klapisch (1997) Luc Besson (1998) Erick Zonca (1999) Luc Besson (2000) Agnès Jaoui (2001) Patrice Chéreau (2002) François Ozon (2003) Alain Resnais (2004) Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2005) Philippe Garrel (2006) Pascale Ferran (2007) Abdellatif Kechiche (2008) François Dupeyron (2009)

2010–2019	Jacques Audiard (2010) Roman Polanski (2011) Maïwenn (2012) Jacques Audiard (2013) Abdellatif Kechiche (2014) Abderrahmane Sissako (2015) Arnaud Desplechin (2016)

International Eurasia Award for Best Director

Ilya Khrzhanovsky (2005) György Pálfi (2006) Abdellatif Kechiche (2007) Hirokazu Koreeda (2008)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 84193712 LCCN: no2005046238 ISNI: 0000 0001 2141 6978 GND: 130439282 SUDOC: 072510951 BNF: cb15028410m (data) ULAN: 500333153

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