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Francis Boespflug

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Francis Boespflug est un producteur et distributeur français de cinéma, co-fondateur de la société Pyramide, né le 1er septembre 1948 et mort le 6 novembre 2018 (à 70 ans).

Biography

Né à Strasbourg le 1er septembre 1948, Francis Boespflug y fait des études de droit. Il y programme également avec Fabienne Vonier, dont il deviendra l’époux, le cinéma indépendant Le Club, qui appartient au réalisateur Louis Malle. Au début des années 1980 il travaille aux côtés du producteur Jack Gajos à la mise en place de l’Agence Pour le Développement Régional du Cinéma. Il rejoint ensuite la distribution de films chez UGC puis auprès de Marin Karmitz chez Mk2 aux acquisitions (qu'il rejoint avec Fabienne Vonier, qui dirige la distribution).

En 1989 il fonde avec Fabienne Vonier, Louis Malle et Vincent Malle, la société de production, distribution et ventes internationales Pyramide. En son sein il produira notamment Youssef Chahine, Alain Resnais, Denys Arcand, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan ou encore Catherine Corsini.

En 1992 il rejoint Gaumont dont il assure la programmation tandis que Fabienne Vonier prend la direction de Pyramide. Cinq ans plus tard il est nommé à la tête de la filiale française de Warner Bros. Sous sa direction, la major américaine s’engage dans la production française, avec notamment La Classe de neige de Claude Miller, La Vérité si je mens 2 de Thomas Gilou, Un long dimanche de fiançailles de Jean-Pierre Jeunet ou Coco avant Chanel d’Anne Fontaine.

En 2009 il quitte Warner Bros. et retourne chez Gaumont en tant que conseiller de la directrice générale Sidonie Dumas. En parallèle il crée sa propre société de productions, F.B. Productions, en 2011.

En 2013 à la mort de Fabienne Vonier il reprend la tête de Pyramide.

Il meurt le 6 novembre 2018 à Paris.

Best films

A Very Long Engagement (2004)
(Associate Producer)
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
(Executive Producer)
Camille Rewinds (2012)
(Associate Producer)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Francis Boespflug (13 films)

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Producer

We Need Your Vote, 1h37
Directed by Mathieu Sapin
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Alexandra Lamy, Finnegan Oldfield, Gilles Cohen, Valérie Karsenti, Philippe Katerine, Brigitte Roüan
Roles Producer
Rating55% 2.7653852.7653852.7653852.7653852.765385
Un jeune homme de 25 ans intègre par un concours de circonstances l’équipe de campagne d’un candidat à l’élection présidentielle. Il devient l’assistant d’Agnès Karadzic, directrice de la communication, une femme de pouvoir et d’expérience qui l’attire et le fascine. Elle l’initie aux tactiques de campagne, et à ses côtés il observe les coups de théâtre et les rivalités au sein de l’équipe, abandonnant peu à peu sa naïveté pour gravir les échelons, jusqu’à un poste très stratégique.
Return to Montauk, 1h46
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Niels Arestrup, Bronagh Gallagher
Roles Co-Producer
Rating58% 2.9498152.9498152.9498152.9498152.949815
L'écrivain Max Zorn se rend à New York où vit sa compagne Clara pour promouvoir son dernier roman qui raconte la passion amoureuse qu'il a eue autrefois dans cette ville avec une autre femme, Rebecca, originaire de l'Allemagne de l'Est. Max fait tout pour revoir Rebecca. Elle, devenue une riche avocate, se montre d'abord réticente. Elle consent finalement à passer du temps avec lui. Rebecca invite Max à venir avec elle un après-midi à Montauk, petit village tout au bout de Long Island dans lequel ils avaient séjourné vingt ans auparavant. L'histoire prend une tout autre tournure lorsqu'ils s'y retrouvent pour le week-end.
Belgica
Belgica (2016)
, 2h7
Directed by Felix Van Groeningen
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Johan Heldenbergh, Sam Louwyck, Stef Aerts, Marijke Pinoy, Sara De Bosschere, Brit Van Hoof
Roles Co-Producer
Rating66% 3.3401553.3401553.3401553.3401553.340155
Jo adore la musique et ouvre son propre bar, le Belgica. Frank, bon père de famille, aide financièrement son frère Jo et participe à la gestion du Belgica. Le succès est au rendez-vous mais les problèmes aussi.
21 Nights with Pattie, 1h55
Directed by Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Karin Viard, Sergi López, Isabelle Carré, Denis Lavant, André Dussollier, Philippe Rebbot
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.0779553.0779553.0779553.0779553.077955
Caroline, une parisienne d'une quarantaine d'années, débarque dans un village du sud de la France dans la Montagne Noire afin d'organiser dans l'urgence les funérailles de sa mère. Mais le soir de son arrivée, elle découvre que le corps de la défunte a disparu.
Florida
Florida (2015)
, 1h50
Directed by Philippe Le Guay
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Vieillesse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays
Actors Jean Rochefort, Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lucas, Anamaria Marinca, Clément Métayer, Coline Béal
Roles Co-Producer
Rating64% 3.237633.237633.237633.237633.23763
A 82 ans, Claude Lherminier, qui fut autrefois un grand industriel dans le papier, mène la vie dure à ses gouvernantes successives. Il leur fait acheter du jus d'orange de Floride car c'est là que vit sa fille Alice. Or, celle-ci est morte il y a neuf ans dans un accident de voiture. Carole, la fille aînée, ne veut pas rappeler ce drame à son père, qui a tous les signes de la maladie d'Alzheimer : il ne le supporterait pas. Carole, qui a repris l'affaire familiale avec brio, tente de refaire sa vie avec Thomas. Mais c'est compliqué, quand il faut continuer de s'occuper de son père, qui souffre d'absences réelles ou feintes à répétition.
High Society, 1h35
Directed by Julie Lopes-Curval
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Ana Girardot, Bastien Bouillon, Baptiste Lecaplain, Aurélia Petit, Sergi López, India Hair
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.945962.945962.945962.945962.94596
Alice, jeune fille douée pour le stylisme, quitte Bayeux et son milieu modeste pour étudier la broderie dans une école parisienne. C'est l'occasion pour elle de découvrir le « beau monde », des us et coutumes différents de ceux qu'elle a toujours connus. Antoine, fils de famille bourgeoise qui s'éprend d'elle, et Harold, créateur de parfums, jouent quelque peu le rôle de passeurs entre les deux univers.
The Cut
The Cut (2014)
, 2h18
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Arsinée Khanjian, Kevork Malikyan, Hindi Zahra, Trine Dyrholm
Roles Co-Producer
Rating61% 3.099263.099263.099263.099263.09926
Pendant le génocide arménien, Nazareth Manoogian est déporté de son village natal de Mardin, en Turquie. Après les déportations, il apprend que ses filles pourraient être encore vivantes et parcourt le monde pour les retrouver. Allant d'Alep au Liban dans un orphelinat, puis traversant l'atlantique comme mousse pour Cuba et finalement aux États-Unis dans le Minnesota puis à Ruso, Dakota du Nord.
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, 1h45
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Kyle Catlett, Kyle Catlett, Callum Keith Rennie, Dominique Pinon
Roles Executive Producer
Rating69% 3.4959453.4959453.4959453.4959453.495945
T.S. Spivet (Kyle Catlett) is a 10-year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. He lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother (Helena Bonham Carter) who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles; his father (Callum Keith Rennie), a cowboy born a hundred years too late; and his 14-year-old sister (Niamh Wilson) who dreams of becoming Miss America. His twin brother Layton (Jakob Davies) died in an accident involving a firearm in the family's barn, which no one ever speaks of. T.S. was with him, measuring the scale of the gunshots for an experiment, and he doesn't understand what happened. One day, T.S. receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian Institution, telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his invention of a perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the United States to reach Washington, D.
Love Is the Perfect Crime, 1h50
Directed by Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Mathieu Amalric, Maïwenn, Karin Viard, Xavier Beauvois, Denis Podalydès, Sara Forestier
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.896962.896962.896962.896962.89696
Marc, who shares a remote mountain chalet with his sister, teaches literature at the polytechnic beside the lake in Lausanne and cannot resist his female students. One of them, Barbara, in the morning is found dead in his bed. When she is reported missing, the police open an enquiry and her glamorous young stepmother Anna starts her own investigation. Anna easily seduces the ever-amorous Marc, while he at the same time is unsuccessfully fending off both a sexy young student Annie and his frustrated spinster sister Marianne, who is being wooed by Richard, his head of department. But the police are closing in and Anna may not be what she appears.
Camille Rewinds, 1h55
Directed by Noémie Lvovsky
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Time travel films
Actors Noémie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Michel Vuillermoz, Denis Podalydès, Judith Chemla, Anne Alvaro
Roles Associate Producer
Rating61% 3.099613.099613.099613.099613.09961
On her way to a party Camille consults a quirky clockmaker because she needs to have her watch fixed. The watch has sentimental value for her since she has received it as a birthday present when she became 16 years old. Next morning Camille realises it is the year 1985 and she is again a teenager.
A Very Long Engagement, 2h14
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes French war films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Clovis Cornillac, Marion Cotillard, Dominique Pinon, Albert Dupontel
Roles Associate Producer
Rating75% 3.7977353.7977353.7977353.7977353.797735
Five French soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. It appears that all of them were killed in a subsequent battle, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She is all the while driven by the constant reminder of what her fiancé had carved into one of the bells of the church near their home, MMM for Manech Aime Mathilde (Manech Loves Mathilde; a pun on the French word aime, which is pronounced like the letter "M". In the English-language version, this is changed to "Manech's Marrying Mathilde").
La Vie de Bohème, 1h40
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Matti Pellonpää, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Évelyne Didi, Christine Murillo
Roles Executive Producer
Rating75% 3.796833.796833.796833.796833.79683
Marcel (André Wilms) is an impoverished Parisian poet and playwright who is evicted from his extremely modest room after he is unable to pay rent for it. While roaming the streets of Paris, he meets Rodolfo (Matti Pellonpää), a painter from Albania who is almost equally poor and is in the country illegally. They quickly discover they are kindred spirits since they both share the same love for art without much regard for their worldly well-being. The two eventually make another friend in Schaunard (Kari Väänänen), an Irish composer who is now renting Marcel's former room. The three friends help each other in the daily struggle to survive by sharing whatever little money they have among each other in order to maintain a basic and simple standard of living.
No Fear, No Die, 1h30
Directed by Claire Denis
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Isaac de Bankolé, Alex Descas, Solveig Dommartin, Christopher Buchholz, Jean-Claude Brialy
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.338863.338863.338863.338863.33886
Two young men, Dah (Isaach De Bankolé) from Benin and Jocelyn (Alex Descas) from the Caribbean decide to work together as a team that organizes illegal cockfights in order to gain quick cash. Dah is responsible for the financial transactions while Jocelyn trains the animals. Jocelyn has a special attachment to one of the champion roosters he has named No Fear, No Die. No Fear, No Die, like all roosters, is eventually defeated causing Jocelyn to begin to lose interest in cockfighting.