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Xavier Beauvois

Xavier Beauvois

French actor, film director and screenwriter
March 20, 1967 (57 years old)
Fr. 2023. Comedy by Cédric Kahn with Denis Podalydès, Jonathan Cohen, Emmanuelle Bercot. Embroiled in a chaotic shooting, a director turns to his only ally, the young extra he's hired to film the "making of".
Runtime: 118 min.

Drift Away

V.O.: Albatros
Fr. 2020. Drama by Xavier Beauvois with Jérémie Renier, Marie-Julie Maille, Victor Belmondo. In Étretat, on the coast of Normandy, the misfortunes of a cattle farmer turn the lives of the chief of police and his small family upside down.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2017. Drama by Guillaume Gallienne with Adeline D'Hermy, Vanessa Paradis, Alice Pol. A young woman from origins dreaming of becoming an actress finds herself confronted with all that this profession and the world can have that is humiliating but also benevolent.

Let the Sunshine In

V.O.: Un Beau Soleil intérieur
Fr. 2017. Sentimental comedy by Claire Denis with Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Nicolas Duvauchelle. The love affairs of a divorced painter and mother in her fifties who has a predilection for married men.
Runtime: 94 min.

The Guardians

V.O.: Les Gardiennes
Fr. 2017. Drama by Xavier Beauvois with Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry. In 1915, while her sons are away at war, a widow farmer who is working with her daughter gets help from a young homeless woman known for her bravery.
Runtime: 135 min.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Xavier Beauvois with Benoît Poelvoorde, Roschdy Zem, Séli Gmach. In 1977 in Switzerland, two men in financial difficultiy decide to steal the coffin of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin to demand a ransom from the family.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2013. Dramatic comedy by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Louis Garrel, Filippo Timi. An unstable forty-something actress from a wealthy Italian family begins an affair with a young French colleague.
Runtime: 104 min.

Farewell, My Queen

V.O.: Les Adieux à la reine
Fr. 2012. History by Benoît Jacquot with Léa Seydoux, Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen. The days before the outbreak of the French Revolution as seen through the eyes of Queen Marie-Antoinette's reader.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2011. Drama by Jean-Marc Moutout with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valérie Dréville, Xavier Beauvois. An account executive in a large bank shoots two of his superiors and then returns to his office, where he recalls the circumstances that led him to commit this act.
Runtime: 94 min.

Of Gods and Men

V.O.: Des hommes et des dieux
Fr. 2010. History by Xavier Beauvois with Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin. The story of the seven French monks of Tibhirine, killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria in 1996.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 2010. Crime drama by Jean-Paul Salomé with Marc-André Grondin, Famke Janssen, Ellen Barkin. A young Frenchman assumes the identity of a missing American teenager and interferes with his family, a dysfunctional one whose mother is a heroin addict and other son a drug dealer.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Sophie de Daruvar, Yves Thomas with Isabelle Carré, Sergi Lopez, Maya Sansa. A failed journalist discovers that his wife, a nurse accompanying dying patients, has been fired but continues to visit dying patients at home.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2009. Drama by Benoît Jacquot with Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Xavier Beauvois. After discovering her husband's infidelity, a famous Parisian pianist leaves him, abandons her career, sells all her belongings and tries to disappear.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Fabien Onteniente with Franck Dubosc, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu. A forty-something divorced and broke man enters a disco dance contest in the hope of giving his son a vacation.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2008. Drama by Josée Dayan with Nathalie Baye, Xavier Beauvois, Samuel Labarthe. In order to identify the traitor who delivered her lover, a hero of the Resistance, to the Gestapo thirteen years earlier, a milliner gathers the nine surviving members of her cell.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Killer

V.O.: Le Tueur
Fr. 2007. Thriller by Cédric Anger with Gilbert Melki, Grégoire Colin, Sophie Cattani. An investment banker convinces the hitman who was hired to kill him to give him a few days to get his affairs in order.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Witnesses

V.O.: Les Témoins
Fr. 2006. Mores drama by André Téchiné with Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Michel Blanc. In 1984, the life of a policeman married to a writer is turned upside down by a young woman from the country.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2005. Crime drama by Xavier Beauvois with Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Roschdy Zem. Afterthree years of small-time cases, an alcoholic detective is assigned to lead the Parisian homicide squad.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2000. Drama by Xavier Beauvois with Benoît Magimel, Nathalie Baye, Antoine Chappey. A young worker avenges the death of his father, fired from their factory for smoking a cigarette, by engaging in an affair with the boss's wife.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1998. Psychological drama by Philippe Garrel with Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Duval, Xavier Beauvois. The tribulations of a Parisian bourgeois woman, her young sculptor lover and an architect who participated in the May 1968 protests and plans to commit suicide.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1996. Psychological drama by Jacques Doillon with Victoire Thivisol, Matiaz Bureau Caton, Xavier Beauvois.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1995. Psychological drama by Xavier Beauvois with Xavier Beauvois, Chiara Mastroianni, Roschdy Zem.
Runtime: 121 min.
Fr. 1993. Mores comedy by Michel Deville with Anémone, André Dussollier, Nicole Garcia. At a summer residence, a woman in search of her first love is welcomed by couples with capricious temperaments.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1991. Social drama by Xavier Beauvois with Xavier Beauvois, Bernard Verley, Bulle Ogier. The depressing daily life of a family whose pharmacist father is an alcoholic.
Runtime: 99 min.

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