Benoît Lamy (; 19 September 1945 – 15 April 2008) was a Belgian film director, best known for his picture ''
Home Sweet Home'' (1973).
Biography
Lamy was born in
Arlon
Arlon (; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Luxembourg (Belgium), province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. With a population of just over 28,000, it ...
in the Belgian Province of
Luxembourg
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and died in
Braine-l'Alleud
Braine-l'Alleud (; ; ) is a Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, in the Provinces of Belgium, province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, about south of Brussels.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Braine-l'Alleud ...
,
Walloon Brabant
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, Belgium.
His film debut ''
Home Sweet Home'' starring
Claude Jade and
Jacques Perrin won a Diploma award at the
8th Moscow International Film Festival
The 8th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 10 to 23 July 1973. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Soviet film '' That Sweet Word: Liberty!'' directed by Vytautas Žalakevičius and the Bulgarian film '' Affection'' directed by ...
.
It was also nominated for a Golden Prize award and received 14 international awards from Montréal to Tehran.
Along with Gabrielle Borile, their picture ''Combat de fauves'' (1997) won a Golden Bayard award at the Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film.
Death
On 15 April 2008 Lamy was murdered by Perceval Ceulemans, with whom he lived with in
Nivelles
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The Nivelles arrondissement ...
. On 15 July 2014 Ceulemans was sentenced to years in prison for "voluntary manslaughter".
Films
* ''
Cartoon Circus'' (1972, documentary about
Franco-Belgian comics, starring
Cabu,
François Cavanna,
Professeur Choron,
Jules Feiffer
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,
GAL, Joke,
Picha
Jean-Paul "Picha" Walravens (Brussels, Belgium, 2 July 1942) is a Belgian cartoonist, comics artist, animator and film director. He is most famous for his adult animated films, such as '' Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle''. ,
Jean-Marc Reiser,
Siné,
Roland Topor
Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surrealism, surreal nature of his work. He was of Po ...
,
Willem and
Georges Wolinski.
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* ''
Home Sweet Home'' (1973, starring
Claude Jade)
* ''
Ham from the Ardennes
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'' (''Jambon d'Ardenne'') (1977, with
Annie Girardot)
* ''
Life Is Beautiful'' (''La vie est belle'') (1987 with
Papa Wemba)
* ''
Wild Games'' (''Combat de fauve'') (1997 with
Richard Bohringer)
References
External links
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1945 births
2008 deaths
People from Arlon
Belgian film directors
Belgian comedy film directors
Belgian LGBTQ film directors
Georges Delerue Award winners
20th-century Belgian LGBTQ people
21st-century Belgian LGBTQ people
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