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Louis Garrel

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Film actor

Louis Garrel, born on June 14, 1983, is a renowned French film actor. He is known for his outstanding performances in various French and international films, particularly in works directed by Agnès Varda and Christopher Hampton. Garrel's work spans a wide range of styles, from art films to commercial blockbusters, and his acting skills have been widely recognized.

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“In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.”

Made France Queens

Author:Louis Garrel

“I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.”

Thinking Play Moments Wanted Actors Saws Theater Atmosphere Fourteen

Author:Louis Garrel

“I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.”

Author:Louis Garrel

“I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.”

Done Use Film Each Day Seconds Good Work

Author:Louis Garrel

“The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.”

Children Couple Separation Dramatic Tragic

Author:Louis Garrel

“Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.”

Way Children Persons Film Existential Weeping Console Movie Love

Author:Louis Garrel

“I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.”

Knows Wanted Jobs Lawyer

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“I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.”

Men Two Film Lists I Realized One Woman

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“I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.”

Author:Louis Garrel

“There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.”

Character Film Social Fashion Defined Cinema French Cinema

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“Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.”

Knows Way Character Would Be Film Social Love Is Emotion Alive Risk Decided Be Good Ran Accused Margins Amnesia Being Accused

Author:Louis Garrel

“I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.”

Kind Film Principles Study Emotional Objectives Sentimental Subterfuge

Author:Louis Garrel

“As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor.”

Want Might Actors Sense Of Humor Gloomy

Author:Louis Garrel

“I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"”

People Thinking Want Film Worst Worst Fear

Author:Louis Garrel

“Because I'm Parisian, I wanted to show a Paris that I don't see at the movies, so I spent a lot of time looking for places that have never been filmed, for streets that have never been filmed because there's a thing about Paris, where it's kind of like a charming music box, this luminous cocoon, like those things that have fake snow in them that you turn upside down.”

Kind Shows Wanted Turns Streets Boxes Snow Paris Fake Charming Upside Down Luminous Cocoons

Author:Louis Garrel

“Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."”

People Cities Paris Love Each Other Very Famous

Author:Louis Garrel

“People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.”

People Thinking Distance Paris Honeymoon

Author:Louis Garrel

“There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.”

People Paris Love Each Other

Author:Louis Garrel

“At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.”

Writing Ends Novel Scripts The End Of The Day

Author:Louis Garrel

“You can do a good movie, or you can do a good movie that can help people to feel the idea of what it is like to live. It can be good in an artificial way; it can be also a good movie for your own existence. You don't know that when you do a movie. You don't know if you succeeded, which is the most difficult thing.”

People Helping Difficult Existence Be Good Good Movie

Author:Louis Garrel

“Sometimes living is not so light and easy and you need a representation of life in front of you. It's a fake reorganization of reality. You start to feel, "I'm not so alone in the world because I can recognize exactly the same feelings."”

World Sometimes Feelings Reality Easy Fake Representation

Author:Louis Garrel

“Because if I were gay, [and] I'm not gay yet — maybe one day — but if I were gay, I'd like to see movies where homosexuality isn't always a problem.”

Ifs Problem Gay One Day Homosexuality Maybe One Day

Author:Louis Garrel

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Born: June 14, 1983
Known for: Film actor
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