Christophe Honoré
Christophe Honoré (lang; born 10 April 1970) is a French writer, filmmaker and theatre director.
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Christophe Honoré

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- Name
- Christophe Honoré
- Born
- 10 April 1970
- Birthplace
- Carhaix, Finistère, France
- Occupation
- Film director, writer
- Nationality
- France
- Education
- University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany
- Honours
- Officer of Arts and Letters · Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Biography
Biography
Christophe Honoré studied at University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany. The recorded working language is French. Marcel Proust is recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with Cahiers du cinéma. Work by Christophe Honoré is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Officer of Arts and Letters and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Christophe Honoré au festival du film américain de Deauville
Georges Biard

Christophe Honoré au festival du cinéma américain de Deauville
Georges Biard
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Christophe Honoré • Born — 10 April 1970 • Birthplace — Carhaix, Finistère, France • Occupation — Film director, writer • Years Active — 2000–present
Career
Career
Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He started writing soon after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a film in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, Les Débutantes, was performed at Avignon's Off Festival in 1998. In 2005, he returned to Avignon to present Dionysos impuissant in the "In" Festival, with Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel playing the leads. A well-known director, he is considered an "auteur" in French cinema. His 2006 film Dans Paris has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague cinema. In 2007, Les Chansons d'amour was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Honoré is openly gay, and some of his movies or screenplays (among them Les Filles ne savent pas nager, Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard and Les Chansons d'amour) deal with gay or lesbian relations. His film Plaire, aimer et courir vite (Sorry Angel), about a writer who has contracted HIV in the 1990s, won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film in 2018. Honoré has been the screenwriter for some of Gaël Morel's films. The actors Louis Garrel and Chiara Mastroianni have each had roles in several of his films. Honoré has also directed several operas for the stage. For the Opéra de Lyon he directed Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 2013, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 2015, and Verdi's Don Carlos in 2018. He also presented his production of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Edinburgh Festival in 2016, and Puccini's Tosca at Aix-en-Provence in 2019; both of these productions adopted a radical approach to traditional works. In the summer of 2020 Honoré's rehearsals of his stage production of Le Côté de Guermantes, based on the third volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, were interrupted by restrictions to combat the COVID-19 epidemic and it became impossible to present it at the Comédie-Française as planned. With his troupe of actors he decided to make a film about the production and the uncertainties they were now facing, and the film Guermantes was released in September 2021.
Novels
Novels
• 1995: Tout contre Léo (jeunesse), turned into a film in 2002 • 1996: C'est plus fort que moi (jeunesse) • 1997: Je joue très bien tout seul (jeunesse) • 1997: L'Affaire petit Marcel (jeunesse) • 1997: L’Infamille (Éditions de l'Olivier) • 1998: Zéro de lecture (jeunesse) • 1998: Une toute petite histoire d'amour (jeunesse) • 1998: Je ne suis pas une fille à papa (jeunesse) • 1999: Les Nuits où personne ne dort (jeunesse) • 1999: Mon cœur bouleversé (jeunesse) • 1999: Bretonneries (jeunesse) • 1999: La Douceur (Éditions de L'Olivier)
Actor
Actor
• 1998: Les Débutantes • 2001: Le Pire du troupeau • 2004: Beautiful Guys • 2005: Dionysos impuissant • 2012: La Faculté • 2012: Un jeune se tue • 2012: Nouveau Roman • 2015: Violentes femmes
Director
Director
• 2009: Angelo, Tyrant of Padua by Victor Hugo, Festival d'Avignon • 2012: Nouveau Roman, Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre national de la Colline • 2013: Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, Opéra National de Lyon • 2015: Fin de l'Histoire by Witold Gombrowicz, Théâtre de Lorient • 2015: Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy, Opéra National de Lyon • 2016: Così fan tutte by Mozart, Aix-en-Provence Festival and Edinburgh International Festival • 2018: Don Carlos by Verdi, Opéra National de Lyon • 2019: Les Idoles by Christophe Honoré, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe • 2019: Tosca by Puccini, Aix-en-Provence Festival
Identity
Identity
Christophe Honoré is recorded with the occupation children's writer. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as film director, screenwriter, writer, novelist and playwright.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1970
Christophe Honoré was born on 10 April 1970.
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Christophe Honoré was born at Carhaix-Plouguer.
Birthplace
Carhaix-Plouguer.
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Catalogued output
Works and catalogued output
“- Here, Eudoxie, take my bear skin.. Since from now on I will not have the pleasure any more to wear it, I give it to you to make a muff out of it..
Only screenwriter
• Year — English title — Original Title — Notes • 2000 — Girls Can't Swim — Les filles ne savent pas nager — Directed by Anne-Sophie Birot • 2002 — Novo — Directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin • 2004 — 3 Dancing Slaves — Le Clan — Directed by Gaël Morel. • 2007 — After Him — Après lui • 2008 — Sunny Spells — Le Bruit des gens autour — Directed by Diastème. • 2011 — Let My People Go! — Directed by Mikael Buch. • 2015 — Two Friends — Les Deux Amis — Directed by Louis Garrel.
Feature films
Feature films
• Year — English title — Original title — Notes • 2002 — Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard — 17 fois Cécile Cassard • Close to Leo — Tout contre Léo — TV Film • 2004 — Ma Mère • 2006 — Dans Paris • 2007 — Love Songs — Les Chansons d'amour • 2008 — The Beautiful Person — La Belle Personne • 2009 — Making Plans for Lena — Non ma fille tu n'iras pas danser • 2010 — Man at Bath — Homme au bain • 2011 — Beloved — Les Bien-aimés • 2014 — Métamorphoses • 2016 — Sophie's Misfortunes — Les Malheurs de Sophie • 2018 — Sorry Angel — Plaire, aimer et courir vite • 2019 — On a Magical Night — Chambre 212 • 2021 — Guermantes • 2022 — Winter Boy — Le Lycéen • 2024 — Marcello Mio • 2026 — Orange-Flavoured Wedding — Mariage au goût d'orange
Short films
Short films
• Year — English title — Original title • 2001 — Nous deux • 2008 — Hôtel Kuntz • 2019 — 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing (segment "Honoré")
Context
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The circumstances in which Christophe Honoré stands. Sir, having had the honor to solicit your vote and interest as candidate for the office of apothecary at the London Hospital, vacant by the resignation of Mr.
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- 1.Festival de Cannes: Love Songs. festival-cannes.com.
- 2.San Francisco Bay Times - LGBTQ News & Calendar for the Bay Area.
- 3."Le film Plaire, aimer et courir vite de Christophe Honoré remporte le prix Louis Delluc 2018". Le Monde, 12 December 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- 4.Biography of Christophe Honoré at Opéra de Lyon website. (Archived at the Wayback Machine.) Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- 5.Così fan tutte at Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016. (Archived at the Wayback Machine.) Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- 6.Così fan tutte at Edinburgh International Festival 2016. (Archived at the Wayback Machine.) Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- 7.Tosca at Aix-en-Provence Festival 2019. (Archived at the Wayback Machine.) Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- 8.Così fan tutte in The Guardian 27 July 2016. (Archived at the Wayback Machine.) Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- 9.Tosca reviewed in The New York Times 5 July 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- 10.Comédie-Française. Le Côté de Guermantes. [Retrieved 28 September 2021]
- 11.Jean-Marc Lalanne, "Avec Guermantes, Christophe Honoré se met au documenteur et s’en tire avec les honneurs", in Les Inrockuptibles, 28 septembre 2021. [Retrieved 28 September 2021]
- 12.EXCLUSIVE: Filming soon to begin on Christophe Honoré's Mariage au goût d'orange. Cineuropa. 2026-01-27.
- 13.Gerstner, David A. Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction. Wayne State University Press. 272. 2015. 9780814338636.
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Formation and teaching. Honoré studied at University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany. His recorded influences include Marcel Proust. Honoré received Officer of Arts and Letters and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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