Olivier Ducastel (born 23 February 1962) is a French
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
,
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and
sound editor who currently works in collaboration with partner
Jacques Martineau
Jacques Martineau (born 8 July 1963) is a French film director and screenwriter who works in collaboration with partner Olivier Ducastel.
Life and career
After spending his adolescence in Nice, Martineau moved to Paris to study at the Ecole N ...
.
Life and career
After spending his adolescence in
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
, Martineau moved to
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
to study film and theatre at the
University of the New Sorbonne. In 1988 he directed a short
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, movemen ...
, ''Le Goût de plaire''. In the same year, he acted as assistant to his mentor,
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrat ...
, on the film ''
Trois places pour le 26
''Three Seats for the 26th'' (french: Trois places pour le 26) is a 1988 French romantic musical film, scripted and directed by Jacques Demy to music by Michel Legrand. Set in Marseille, it shows the singer and actor Yves Montand returning to t ...
'', the last film Demy completed before his death in 1990. Ducastel spent the early 1990s working as a sound editor on various films.
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In 1995 Ducastel met Jacques Martineau, and the two began a professional and personal relationship. Their first collaborative venture, '' Jeanne et le Garçon formidable'', (an HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual ...
-themed musical comedy inspired by the films of 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
Mathieu is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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
The 48th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 February 1998. The festival opened with the Irish film ''The Boxer'' by Jim Sheridan. Francis Ford Coppola's '' The Rainmaker'' was selected as the closing night film. Th ...
.
Ducastel and Martineau have since directed further films with gay
''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'.
While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...
-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 ...
.Biography at cinefil.com (in French)
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Filmography
References
External links
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1962 births
Living people
French film directors
French male screenwriters
LGBT film directors
Mass media people from Lyon
University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 alumni
French gay writers
Sound editors