Mathieu Amalric Filmography

Quantum of Solace

Actors: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he Read More

Un Secret

Actors: Cécile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis: Informed that his elderly father has mysteriously disappeared, anxious Parisian François (Mathieu Amalric) recalls his tragic family history in director Claude Miller's adaptation of the fact-based novel by author Philippe Grimbert. As a sickly young child, François (Valentin Vigourt) Read More

Heartbeat Detector

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Lou Castel, Laetitia Spigarelli

Synopsis: As a Parisian petrochemical company forges on into the 21st century, the in-house human resources psychologist leads a probe that proves the ghosts of the previous century still hold sway over current events in director Nicolas Klotz's labyrinthine drama. Simon (Mathieu Amalric) is a human Read More

On War

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Asia Argento, Guillaume Depardieu, Clotilde Hesme, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: A filmmaker going though a midlife crisis stumbles into a new way of examining life in this comedy-drama from France. Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric) is a movie director who has lost touch with his muse and is desperate to come up with an idea for his next picture. While visiting a funeral home as he Read More

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Read More

Actresses (Dreams of the Night Before)

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Noemie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel, Marysa Borini

Synopsis: Actress-cum-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's sophomore feature, the comedy-drama Les Actrices (Le reve de la nuit d'avant), follows the trials and travails of Marcelline (Tedeschi), a tense and jittery stage thesp whose personal and professional life threaten to fall into pieces simultaneously. Read More

The Very Big Apartment

Actors: Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Noemie Lvovsky, Carmen Durand

Synopsis: A caustic apartment owner finds her attempts to evict the ragtag occupants of a 3,000 square foot rent-controlled apartment challenged in a most unexpected way in director Pascal Thomas' communal comedy. Thanks to a legal loophole known as "the Law of 1948," a cap was placed on some rental units Read More

Public Enemy No. 1

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis: This tough-as-nails, crime-themed docudrama constitutes the second installment in a four hour, two-part biopic on the doings of infamous French thug Jacques Mesrine (1936-79), officially regarded for many years as "Public Enemy #1" in Gaul. Here, he is played to the hilt by Vincent Cassel, who Read More

57,000 Kilometers Between Us

Actors: Florence Thomassin, Pascal Bongard, Marie Burgun, Hadrien Bouvier, Stéphanie Michelini

Synopsis: A teenage girl reaches out to strangers while keeping her immediate family at arm's length in this allegorical drama focusing on the impact technology has on contemporary relationships. Nat (Marie Burgun) is a fourteen-year-old girl who lives in a family that has become obsessed with the Read More

Marie Antoinette

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne

Synopsis: Writer and director Sofia Coppola puts a new spin on the life and times of one of Europe's most infamous monarchs in this lavish historical drama which fuses a contemporary sensibility with painstaking recreations of the look of the 18th century. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst Read More

The Moustache

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Cylia Malki

Synopsis: "What would you think if I shaved my moustache?" asks Marc (Vincent Lindon) of his wife, Agnès (Emmanuelle Devos), one fateful night as they prepare to visit friends for dinner. She's never seen him without it, but while she goes to do some last-minute shopping, he impulsively shaves the moustache Read More

The Singer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Cécile De France, Mathieu Amalric, Christine Citti, Patrick Pineau

Synopsis: A small-time crooner of sentimental ballads enters into a May-December romance with a fragile young real-estate agent in this low-key romantic drama starring Gérard Depardieu and Cécile de France. Fifty-something Alain (Depardieu) is something of a local celebrity in Clermont-Ferrand, and few Read More

The Signs

Actors: Marin Charvet

Un Lever de Rideau

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel, Vahina Giocante

Munich

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

Kings and Queen

Actors: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Magalie Woch

Synopsis: The stories of two desperate characters turn out to share an important link in this drama from French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a woman in her mid-thirties who wants people to believe that her life is going just the way she wants. But a look below the surface shows Read More

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

Actors: Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat in 1972, gets a more historically accurate treatment in Serge Le Péron's noirish docudrama, the tabloid-headline-titled I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed. The film is narrated by Read More

A Little Bit Under the Weather

Actors: Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis: Annick Raoul's ten-minute short feature A Little Bit Under the Weather concerns Serge (Mathieu Amalric), a man who wakes up in a dream state but cannot be sure that he is actually sleeping. He also discovers that he's playing in an orchestra, but does not know the music being played. All that he Read More

Inquiétudes

Actors: Grégoire Colin, Julie Ordon, Brigitte Catillon, Laurent Grévill, Etienne Chicot

Synopsis: Bruno (Grégoire Colin of Beau Travail) is a troubled art student fascinated with pristine white walls and empty space. A squalid, unhappy childhood has left him angry, reclusive, and obsessive. When his brutish uncle (Etienne Chicot), fed up with Bruno's eccentricities, threatens to kick him out Read More

Un Homme, Un Vrai

Actors: Hélène Fillières, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Pellet, Philippe Suner, Daniel Cohen

La Chose Publique

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Quentin Chatelain, Anne Alvaro, Michèle Laroque, Bernard Menez

Synopsis: French actor Mathieu Amalric directs the made-for-TV comedy La Chose Publique (Public Affairs). Shot on digital video, the film is a satire of French politics and media personalities. Television director Philippe Roberts (Jean-Quentin Chatelain) has been assigned to make a film series, so he Read More

Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres

Actors: Richard Berry, Mathieu Amalric, Maurice Garrel, Elodie Peudepiece, Malik Zidi

Synopsis: French filmmaker and professor of music Denis Dercourt directs the family drama Mes Enfants Ne Sont Pas Comme Les Autres (My Children Are Different). Widowed cellist Jean Debart (Richard Berry) is strict with his two children in regards to their musical education. Teenager Adele (Elodie Read More

Le Stade de Wimbledon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Esther Gorintin, Anna Prucnal, Ariella Reggio, Paul-Jean Franceschini

Synopsis: Directed by Mathieu Amalric, a well-respected actor who has starred in such acclaimed French exports as Olivier Assayas' Late August, Early September and Arnaud Desplechin's My Sex Life, Wimbledon Stadium is an adaptation of a novel by Italian author Daniele Del Giudice. Its narrative revolves Read More

Lulu

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Eli Medeiros, Gérard Meylan, Bruno Putzulu, Tony Gatlif

Synopsis: Jean-Henri Roger's Lulu stars Elli Medeiros as the title character. Lulu is a transsexual who lives with John (Gerard Meylan). One of the town drunks she serves at her bar accuses her of killing a local criminal. A detective (Bruno Putzulu) starts a quirky investigation into the charge. A Read More

Les Naufrages De La D 17

Actors: Patrick Bouchitey, Iliana Lolic, Sabine Haudepin, Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Synopsis: Luc Moullet's Les naufrages de la D 17 (Shipwrecked On Route D 17) is a quirky comedy. Racecar driver Paul (Patrick Bouchitey) becomes stranded in a village in the French Alps. He partner goes to find help. While they hunt for assistance, a film crew is making a western. At the same time, a Read More

Amour d'Enfance

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Roger Souza

Synopsis: A young man must reconcile his nostalgia for the past with the unfortunate realities of the present in this drama. Shortly after graduating from college, Paul (Mathieu Amalric) receives word from his mother Odette (Michele Gary) that his father (Roger Souza) has been diagnosed with cancer and Read More

L'Affaire Marcorelle

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Khorsand, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Former Cahiers du Cinema editor Serge Le Peron writes and directs this screwball crime comedy chock full of ironic film references. The film opens with student radical-turned-magistrate Francois Marcorelle (Jean-Pierre Leaud) stumbling into an art house movie theater mid-film. The rather comely Read More

La Fausse Suivante

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Alexandre Soulie

Synopsis: This droll comedy from France was based on a popular stage play by the 18th century author Marivaux. As a lark, an attractive young heiress (Sandrine Kiberlain) disguises herself as a man as she travels with a servant for a weekend getaway to the estate of her close friend the Countess (Isabelle Huppert Read More

Late August, Early September

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar, Alex Descas, Arsinée Khanjian

Synopsis: Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year's span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until early September of the next. Gabriel (Mathieu Amalric) and Jenny (Jeanne Balibar) separate, despite the Read More

Alice et Martin

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Maguelon

Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, auteur Andre Techine offers an intense, intimate look inside the complex relationship between two emotionally dysfunctional people. Neither Alice (Juliette Binoche) nor Martin (Alexis Loret) seem emotionally healthy enough to sustain a relationship, but somehow they Read More

La Sentinelle

Actors: Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: After spending some time with his diplomat father in Germany, a young French medical student returns by train to Paris to resume his studies. He is puzzled by the harsh treatment he receives from customs at the border but doesn't begin to understand why until he gets home and discovers a mummified Read More

On a tres peu d'amis

Trois Ponts sur la Rivière

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Mathieu Amalric, Thomas Badek, Andre Baptista, Sara Paz

Synopsis: Arthur (Mathieu Amalric) is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire (Jeanne Balibar). He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having just made Read More

Mange Ta Soupe

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Yves Dubois, Adriana Asti, Jeanne Balibar

Synopsis: In this comedic slice-of-life, a young man who has been away for a long time comes back home to visit his mother, an egocentric literary critic consumed by the world of books. His sister is pretty much wrapped up in herself, his father is a journalist and somewhat of a dreamer, in short, no one in Read More

My Sex Life (...Or How I Got Into an Argument)

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: In this satiric comedy-drama from France, Paul (Mathieu Amalric) is an assistant professor of philosophy disenchanted with teaching and distracted enough that he can't (or won't) finish the dissertation that would allow him to become a full professor. Esther (Emmanuelle Devos) has been his Read More

Le Journal D'Un Seducteur

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Hubert Saint-Macary, Serge Merlin, Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy, takes an intellectualized look at the nature of a crush as it tells the tale of 20-year-old Claire, a young woman seemingly suffering a terminal case of ennui. She glumly goes through the minimal motions of living until she falls in love with handsome Gregoire, a highly Read More

La Chasse Aux Papillons

Actors: Narda Blanchet, Pierrette Pompom Bailhache, Alexandre Tcherkassoff, Thamar Tarassachvili, Emmanuel de Chauvigny

Synopsis: Otar Iosseliani's comedy of manners is about eccentric old ladies and the equally eccentric guests who visit the ladies' mansion in a Parisian suburb. Though the picture's surrealistic touch, deliberately unhurried pace, and attention to detail are reminiscent of the later works of Luis Buñuel Read More