Nicolas Philibert
{{short description|French film director}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
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| caption = Philibert in 2023, with the Golden Bear for On the Adamant
| name = Nicolas Philibert
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|1|10|df=yes}}
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| occupation = Film director, actor
| yearsactive = 1978-present
| alma_mater = University of Grenoble
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Nicolas Philibert ({{IPA|fr|nikɔla filibɛʁ|lang}}; born 10 January 1951) is a French film director and actor.
Biography
Philibert was born in Nancy, France. He studied philosophy in the University of Grenoble.{{cite web |title=Nicolas Philibert |url=https://iffr.com/en/persons/nicolas-philibert |publisher=International Film Festival Rotterdam |access-date=4 March 2023 |archive-date=13 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213224337/https://iffr.com/en/persons/nicolas-philibert |url-status=live }} Philibert's father was a film lecturer and he attended his talks in his youth, which encouraged him to embark on a career in the film industry. He started it with filmmaker René Allio in 1970,{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=5625.html|title = René Allio at Allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 3 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150403013315/http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=5625.html|url-status = live}} as a trainee on Les Camisards{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=2985.html|title = Les Camisards on allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 7 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150407161317/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=2985.html|url-status = live}} and then as an assistant on Rude Journée pour la reine (1973),{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=30432.html|title = Rude Journée on Allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 2 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402231449/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=30432.html|url-status = live}} and assistant-director on Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère... (1975).{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=2187.html|title = Moi Pierre Rivière on allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 2 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402120112/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=2187.html|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=10456.html|title = Allocine on Philbert|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 28 March 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150328042308/http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=10456.html|url-status = live}}
In 1978 he co-directed with Gérard Mordillat a feature documentary His Master's Voice,{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=12091.html|title = Gérard Mordillat on Allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 2 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402231455/http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=12091.html|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=14432.html|title = His Master's Voice (La Voix de son maitre) on allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 2 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402231439/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=14432.html|url-status = live}} in which a dozen bosses of big industrial groups discuss power, leadership, hierarchies and the role of unions.
Between 1985 and 1987, he made several films about mountains and adventure for TV, then turned to making feature-length documentaries for theatrical distribution: La Ville Louvre (1990), Le Pays des sourds (1992),{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=4388.html|title = Le pays des sourds (Land of the deaf) on allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 2 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121658/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=4388.html|url-status = live}} Un animal, des animaux (1995),{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=12713.html|title = Un animal, des animaux (One animal, some animals) on Allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 2 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402173812/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=12713.html|url-status = live}} La Moindre des choses (1996) {{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119689/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_6|title = Moindre des choses on IMDB|date = |accessdate = |website = IMDB|publisher = IMDB|last = |first = |archive-date = 26 July 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220726014932/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119689/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_6|url-status = live}} - at the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, as well as an experimental film with the pupils of the theatre school Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Qui sait? (1998).
In 2001, Nicolas Philibert made Être et avoir, about daily life in a single class school on a small village in the Auvergne. It won the Prix Louis Delluc 2002, and became a box office and critical success in France and internationally. The film was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.{{Cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3158545/year/2002.html |title=Festival de Cannes: To Be and to Have |accessdate=3 November 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |archive-date=10 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010001522/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3158545/year/2002.html |url-status=live }}
With Retour en Normandie (2007),{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=108899.html|title = Retour en Normandie (Return to Normandy) on Allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 2 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402145100/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=108899.html|url-status = live}} he revisited the traces of a previous films, made thirty years earlier by René Allio, with local peasants playing the lead roles. With Nénette (2010),{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=174359.html|title = Nénette on Allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 2 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402201155/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=174359.html|url-status = live}} made at the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes in Paris, he produced an intimated portrait of the most famous of its inhabitants a female orang-utang, Nénette, held in captivity for 36 years.
La Maison de la radio (2013),{{Cite web|url = http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=197186.html|title = La Maison de la radio on Allocine|date = |accessdate = |website = Allocine|publisher = Allocine|last = |first = |archive-date = 28 March 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150328040908/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=197186.html|url-status = live}} takes us into the heart of the French Radio headquarters in Paris, finding out who inhabits the place and discovering the mysteries of its long corridors.
Over the last fifteen years there have been more than 120 retrospectives or 'homages' to Philibert organised internationally including the British Film Institute (London) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).{{Cite web|url = http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/819|title = Philibert at MOMA|date = |accessdate = |website = MOMA website|publisher = MOMA|last = |first = |archive-date = 3 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150403011250/http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/819|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|url = http://sabzian.be/tags/nicolas-philibert-retrospective|title = Sabzian retrospective|date = |accessdate = |website = Sabzian.be|publisher = Sabzian|last = |first = |archive-date = 21 February 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150221151530/http://sabzian.be/tags/nicolas-philibert-retrospective|url-status = live}}
He was one of the directors invited to nominate his favourite films in the British Film Institute's 2012 poll.{{Cite web|url = http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/1092|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120827005459/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/1092|url-status = dead|archive-date = 27 August 2012|title = 2012 BFI Greatest Film poll|date = |accessdate = |website = British Film Institute|publisher = British Film Institute|last = |first = }}
He explains, in French, his motivations, his influences (including Agnès Varda) and the history of his career as a documentary film maker, especially the 'impermeable' frontiers between documentary and drama in an interview recorded in April 2012.{{Cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo71a3udz2A|title = Entretien avec Nicolas Philibert, réalisateur de "La nuit tombe sur la ménagerie"|date = April 2012|accessdate = |website = Utube|publisher = Utube|last = |first = |archive-date = 25 March 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160325171445/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo71a3udz2A|url-status = live}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! English title ! Original title ! Note |
| 1978
| His Master's Voice | La Voix de son maître | |
| 1985
| colspan="2" | Christophe | Short film |
| 1987
| Trilogy for One Man | Trilogie pour un homme seul | |
| 1988
| Baquet's Comeback | Le Come-back de Baquet | Short film |
| 1988
| Go for It, Lapébie! | Vas-y Lapébie ! | Short film |
| 1990
| La Ville Louvre | |
| 1992
| Le Pays des sourds | |
| 1996
| Animals | Un animal, des animaux | |
| 1997
| La Moindre des choses | |
| 1999
| Qui sait? | |
| 2002
| Être et avoir | |
| 2007
| Retour en Normandie | |
| 2010
| colspan="2" | Nénette | |
| 2013
| colspan="2" | La Maison de la radio | |
| 2018
| Each and Every Moment | De chaque instant | |
| 2023
| Sur l'Adamant | |
| rowspan="2" | 2024
| Averroès & Rosa Parks | |
| The Typewriter and Other Headaches
| La Machine à écrire et autres sources de tracas{{cite web|author = Isabelle Danel|language=fr|url=https://www.bande-a-part.fr/cinema/critique/magazine-de-cinema-machine-a-ecrire-et-autres-sources-de-tracas-nicolas-philibert/|title=Machine à écrire et autres sources de tracas de Nicolas Philibert|website=Bande à part}} | |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.nicolasphilibert.fr/}} (French)
- {{IMDb name|0679928|Nicolas Philibert}}
{{César Award for Best Editing}}
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Category:French film directors
Category:French male film actors
Category:Grenoble Alpes University alumni
Category:Actors from Nancy, France