Martin Provost

{{short description|French film director, writer and actor|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| caption = Provost at the Berlinale 2017

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|5|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Brest, France

| occupation = Film director, writer, actor

| years_active = 1989–present

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Martin Provost (born 13 May 1957) is a French film director, writer and actor. He wrote and directed films such as Séraphine and Le Ventre de Juliette. Violette, his 2013 biographical drama about author Violette Leduc, was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/violette |title=Violette |accessdate=2013-08-10 |work=TIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820060159/http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/violette |archivedate=2013-08-20 }}

Filmography

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! width=65 |Screenwriter

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align="center" | 1976

| align="left"| A Young Emmanuelle

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align="center" | 1977

| align="left"| Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret

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|TV series

align="center" | 1977

| align="left"| Les Folies Offenbach

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|TV mini-series

align="center" | 1977

| align="left"| Au plaisir de Dieu

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|TV mini-series

align="center" | 1977

| align="left"| Banlieue sud-est

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|TV mini-series

align="center" | 1978

| align="left"| Le Devoir de français

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|Telefilm

align="center" | 1978

| align="left"| Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir

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|Telefilm

align="center" | 1979

| align="left"| Au théâtre ce soir

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|TV series

align="center" | 1980

| align="left"| Tarendol

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|Telefilm

align="center" | 1980

| align="left"| Les Héritiers

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|TV series

align="center" | 1981

| align="left"| Pause-café

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|TV series

align="center" | 1981

| align="left"| Histoires de voyous : Opération Primevère

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|Telefilm

align="center" | 1983

| align="left"| Emmenez-moi au théâtre : La Baye

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|Telefilm

align="center" | 1984

| align="left"| Comme les doigts de la main

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|Short film

align="center" | 1985

| align="left"| L'Histoire en marche: Les prisonnières

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|Telefilm

align="center" | 1988

| align="left"| Alice

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align="center" | 1989

| align="left"| Pentimento

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align="center" | 1992

| align="left"| Cocon

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|Short film

align="center" | 1997

| align="left"| Tortilla y cinema

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align="center" | 2002

| align="left"| 20, avenue Parmentier

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align="center" | 2003

| align="left"| Le Ventre de Juliette

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|Avignon Film Festival - Prix Tournage

align="center" | 2006

| align="left"| SantApprentice

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|Animated TV series

align="center" | 2008

| align="left"| Séraphine

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|César Award for Best Film
César Award for Best Original Screenplay
Newport Beach Film Festival - Best Film
Newport Beach Film Festival - Best Director
Newport Beach Film Festival - Best Screenplay
Nominated—César Award for Best Director
Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Film
Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Director
Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Screenplay
Nominated—Prix Jacques Prévert du Scénario for Best Original Screenplay

align="center" | 2011

| align="left"| The Long Falling

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align="center" | 2013

| align="left"| Violette

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|Nominated—Magritte Award for Best Foreign Film in Coproduction

align="center" | 2017

| align="left"| The Midwife

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align="center" | 2020

| align="left"| How to Be a Good Wife

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Published works

  • 1992: Aime-moi vite
  • 2007: Léger, humain, pardonnable
  • 2009: La Rousse Péteuse
  • 2010: Bifteck

References

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