Lucas BelvauxFilmography

Born:: France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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Pars vite et Reviens tard

Actors: José Garcia, Lucas Belvaux, Marie Gillain, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: The bleakest and most claustrophobic nightmare of many a European actualizes in director Régis Wargnier's apocalyptic thriller Pars vite et reviens tard (AKA Have Mercy on Us All). Not long after his abandonment by his girlfriend, French police captain Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is confronted by a Read More

1/24/07
Merry Christmas

Actors: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Dany Boon, Daniel Brühl

Synopsis: The year is 1914, and as World War I continues to rage across the European countryside, four individuals stuck on the front lines find themselves faced with the unthinkable in director Christian Carion's Academy Award-nominated account of the true-life wartime event that would offer hope for peace Read More

3/3/06
The Right of the Weakest

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Caravaca, Natacha Régnier, Lucas Belvaux, Patrick Descamps, Claude Semal

Synopsis: French helmer Lucas Belvaux's The Right of the Weakest - a stark kitchen sink drama with occasional and unpredictable flashes of humor - meditates on the question of when to resign oneself to a sad fate and when to buck the system, even if it means risking everything. This ensemble piece observes Read More

2006
Après la Vie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ornella Muti, François Morel, Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: After Life is the third film in Lucas Belvaux's ambitious Trilogy, following On the Run, a thriller, and An Amazing Couple, a romantic comedy. After Life features the same characters as the other two films and happens over the same time period, but it's a melodrama, and the focus is on Pascal (Gilbert Melki Read More

2/13/04
Un Couple Épatant

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: François Morel, Ornella Muti, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: Un Couple Épatant (An Amazing Couple) is the second installment in the ambitious French-language trilogy directed by Belgian-born filmmaker Lucas Belvaux. Where the first film, Cavale (On the Run), was a film noir thriller, this sequel is a lighthearted romantic comedy in the style of a classic Read More

2/6/04
Cavale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Frot, Lucas Belvaux, Dominique Blanc

Synopsis: Inspired by Lawrence Durrell's collection of interrelated novels, The Alexandria Quartet, Lucas Belvaux's trilogy--the violent noir On the Run, the romantic comedy An Amazing Couple, and the melodrama After the Life, examine many of the same characters from three distinct perspectives. In On the Read More

1/30/04
Tomorrow We Move

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Natacha Régnier, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: Director Chantal Akerman helmed this offbeat comedy about a mother and daughter who find themselves living together again for the first time in many years. Still reeling emotionally from the recent death of her husband, Catherine (Aurore Clément) has chosen to leave her old home and move in with Read More

2004
Pour Rire!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ornella Muti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Antoine Chappey, Tonie Marshall

Synopsis: Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian Read More

1/8/97
Grand Bonheur

Actors: Bernard Ballet, Lucas Belvaux, Pierre Berriau, Nathalie Richard, Marilyne Canto

Synopsis: This affectionate little drama captures the last summer before graduation, when these assorted film students and drama students must leave the protected world of college and venture out into the chaotic currents of everyday life. All of them are working together to prepare a revue which spoofs and Read More

1993
Parfois Trop d'amour

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Josephine Fresson, David Martin, Bernard Mazzinghi, Francis Bouc

1992
Madame Bovary

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-François Balmer, Jean Yanne, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: Literary critics long regarded Gustave Flaubert's iconic French novel Madame Bovary as unfilmable (despite several attempts by Vincente Minnelli and others to bring it to the screen), but Nouvelle Vague architect Claude Chabrol set out to definitively prove them wrong with this Oscar-nominated Read More

12/25/91
Incognito

Actors: Arielle Dombasle, Lucas Belvaux, Yves Afonso

1989
Trois Années

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Jacques Villeret, Philippe Volter, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: This film is based on a short novel by Russian author Anton Chekhov, with the settings changed to 1870 France. It concerns the romantic frustration of two extremely pleasant and civilized people. Alexandre (Jacques Villaret) is a middle-aged bachelor, pleasant and well-to-do, who fears the Read More

1989
L'Air de Rien

Actors: Carole Courtoy, Gabriel Arcand, Josse de Pauw, Bernadette Lafont, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: Financial backers from three different countries--Belgium, Canada, France--converged upon the domestic drama L'Air de Rein (Easy In Mind). Carole Courtoy stars as a woman who is convinced that she has only a few months to live. In the time left, she wanders through various European communities Read More

1989
Desordre

Actors: Wadeck Stanczak, Ann-Gisele Glass, Lucas Belvaux, Simon de la Brosse, Remi Martin

Synopsis: After serving his apprenticeship as a screenwriter for director André Techiné, former movie critic Olivier Assayas wrote and directed this film. In the story, a penniless girl and two similarly impoverished boys with ambitions of becoming a successful rock group are sorely in need of some Read More

1986
La Loi Sauvage

Actors: Michel Constantin, Lucas Belvaux, Hélène Lapiower

1986
Wuthering Heights

Actors: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Olivier Cruveiller, Sandra Montaigu, Alice de Poncheville

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's version of Emily Bronte's novel might as well be called "Withering Heights" since only segments of the full plot are used, and the setting has been changed to France in the 1930s. The vengeful Heathcliff is now the vengeful Roch (Lucas Belvaux), and Cathy is the more Francophone Read More

1985
La Femme Publique

Actors: Francis Huster, Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson, Roger Dumas

Synopsis: An aspiring young actress (Valerie Kaprisky) accepts a leading role in a film version of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. Dissatisfied by her performance, the eccentric filmmaker (Francis Huster) begins a rigorous course of indoctrination, sexual domination, and acting lessons, leaving the mentally Read More

5/16/84
La Femme Ivoire

Actors: Roland Blanche, Dora Doll, Lucas Belvaux, Sylvie Granotier

1984
Poulet Au Vinaigre

Actors: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Caroline Cellier, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: In a routine murder mystery based on a novel by Dominique Roulet, a cruel, wheelchair-bound invalid (Stephane Audran) who consistently terrorizes her teen son Louis (Lucas Belvaux) into abject obedience, is threatened with the loss of her home by a conniving trio who want her property as part of a Read More

1984
La Mort de Mario Ricci

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Jean-Michel Dupuis, Heinz Bennent, Mimsy Farmer, Magali Noël

Synopsis: The Death of Mario Ricci is a Swiss/French/West German coproduction, filmed on location in Switzerland. Gian-Maria Volonte stars as a TV newscaster who journeys to a remote alpine village to interview a famed malnutrition expert. Upon his arrival, Volonte learns that there's an ongoing Read More

1983
Allons Z'enfants

Actors: Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: The Boy Soldier is set in the 1930s and is based on a novel by Yves Gibeau, a book that has the unusual distinction of being banned in military precincts in France. In the film, a young fellow, Simon Chalumet (Lucas Belvaux) is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who Read More

1980