Jacques Martineau (born 8 July 1963) is a French film director and screenwriter who works in collaboration with partner
Olivier Ducastel
Olivier Ducastel (born 23 February 1962) is a French film director, screenwriter and sound editor who currently works in collaboration with partner Jacques Martineau.
Life and career
After spending his adolescence in Rouen, Martineau moved to ...
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Life and career
After spending his adolescence in
Nice
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, Martineau moved to
Paris
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to study at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure. After graduating, he took up a teaching post at the facility.
In 1995 Martineau met Olivier Ducastel, and the two began a professional and personal relationship. Their first collaborative venture, ''
Jeanne et le Garçon formidable'' (an
HIV/AIDS
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-themed
musical comedy
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement ...
inspired by the films of
Jacques Demy and featuring
Virginie Ledoyen
Virginie Fernández (born 15 November 1976), known by her stage name Virginie Ledoyen (), is a French actress who has appeared in French, British and American films.
Life and career
Ledoyen was born in Aubervilliers, the daughter of Olga, a res ...
and Demy's son
Mathieu
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Surname
* André Mathieu (1929–1968), Canadian pianist and composer
* Anselme Mathieu (1828–1895), French Provençal poet
* Claude-Louis Mathieu (1783–187 ...
), was released in 1998. The film was entered into the
48th Berlin International Film Festival
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Ducastel and Martineau have since directed further films with gay-related storylines, including the ambitious, almost three-hour-long ''
Nés en 68'' starring
and
Yannick Renier
Yannick Renier (born 29 March 1975) is a Belgian actor who started his career in the theatre in the 1990s and has since appeared in several films and television productions.
Life and career
Renier trained at the Conservatoire Royal in Brussels ...
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Biography at cinefil.com (in French)
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Martineau currently combines film work with a lectureship at Paris X University Nanterre
Paris Nanterre University (French: ''Université Paris Nanterre''), formerly Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Paris, France. It is one of the most prestigious French universities, ma ...
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Filmography
References
External links
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1963 births
Living people
École Normale Supérieure alumni
French film directors
French male screenwriters
LGBT film directors
Mass media people from Montpellier
French gay writers