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Michel Amathieu is a Director of Photography and Cinematography French born on 28 november 1955 at Crèvecœur-en-Auge (France)

Michel Amathieu

Michel Amathieu
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Nationality France
Birth 28 november 1955 (68 years) at Crèvecœur-en-Auge (France)

Michel Amathieu est un directeur de la photographie français né le 28 novembre 1955 à Crèvecœur-en-Auge, ayant notamment travaillé avec Emir Kusturica.

Biography

Michel Amathieu étudie d'abord les mathématiques, obtenant une maîtrise dans ce domaine. Il pratique la photographie occasionnellement. Il enseigne deux ans dans le secondaire avant d'intégrer les cours du soir de L'école Louis Lumière.

Best films

Me and My Sister (2004)
(Director of Photography)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
(Additional Photography)

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Filmography of Michel Amathieu (24 films)

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Cameraman

J'ai perdu Albert, 1h40
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Julie Ferrier, Josiane Balasko, Virginie Visconti, Bernard Le Coq, Étienne Draber, Philippe du Janerand
Roles Director of Photography
Rating44% 2.2482252.2482252.2482252.2482252.248225
Chloé est une voyante réputée. Mais son don est dû à la présence d'Albert Einstein qui a trouvé refuge dans sa tête. Sans crier gare, l'esprit d'Albert la quitte pour se réfugier dans la tête de Zac, garçon de café qui cherche à perpétuer les travaux d'apiculteur de feu son père...
Rosemary's Baby (miniseries), 4h
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Zoe Saldana, Patrick J. Adams, Jason Isaacs, Carole Bouquet, Olivier Rabourdin, Christina Cole
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55% 2.753952.753952.753952.753952.75395
After suffering a miscarriage, Rosemary (Zoe Saldana) and Guy (Patrick J. Adams) Woodhouse leave New York City for Paris, hoping to make a fresh start. A series of serendipitous events lead them to befriend affluent couple Margaux (Carole Bouquet) and Roman Castevet (Jason Isaacs), who invite them to live in their prestigious apartment building. While Guy appreciates Roman's taking him under his wing, Rosemary is overwhelmed by the Castevets' interest in their lives. She finds evidence of the previous couple that lived in their apartment, and after going to Commissioner Fontaine (Olivier Rabourdin) with her suspicions, learns that the woman, Nena (Victoire Bélézy) committed suicide. Following a lead, Rosemary finds Nena's priest, who claims that the apartment building has a dark past, and one of its tenants is a Satanist billionaire named Steven Marcato who eats women's hearts. The priest hangs himself soon after, which prompts Fontaine to investigate.
My Old Lady, 1h47
Directed by Israël Horovitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dominique Pinon, Stéphane Freiss, Noémie Lvovsky
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1974353.1974353.1974353.1974353.197435
Mathias, a down-and-out New Yorker, travels to Paris to liquidate a large, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. Once there, however, he discovers an old woman, Mathilde, living in the apartment with her daughter Chloé.
Diplomacy
Diplomacy (2013)
, 1h28
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy, Action, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Niels Arestrup, Luke Evans, André Dussollier, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Burghart Klaußner
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.5468953.5468953.5468953.5468953.546895
As the Allied Forces move toward Paris, Adolf Hitler commands Gen Dietrich von Choltitz to destroy the city. Choltitz sends a team to demolish the city's famous land-marks and to overflow the Seine, led by Lt Hegger and advised by a captured Parisian engineer named Mr Lanvin. The land-marks being targeted include the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde, the Notre Dame de Paris.
Blind Man
Blind Man (2012)
, 1h34
Directed by Xavier Palud
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Jacques Gamblin, Lambert Wilson, Raphaëlle Agogué, Marie Vincent, Pascal Demolon, Nicolas Pignon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.8501752.8501752.8501752.8501752.850175
Le Commandant Lassalle enquête sur plusieurs meurtres ayant eu lieu en peu de temps. Il semblerait que le suspect le plus probable est un certain Gabriel Narvik, cependant celui-ci est aveugle. Malgré tout persuadé que ça ne peut être que Narvik, Lasalle va tout faire pour trouver les preuves nécessaires...
Nicostratos the Pelican, 1h35
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds
Actors Emir Kusturica, François-Xavier Demaison, Valériane de Villeneuve
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.4448453.4448453.4448453.4448453.444845
Yannis, un jeune adolescent vivant sur une île grecque avec son père pêcheur, adopte un jeune pélican. Son arrivée va bouleverser sa vie et celle de l'île...
Road, Movie, 1h35
Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Virendra Saxena, Yashpal Sharma
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.3960953.3960953.3960953.3960953.396095
Vishnu (Abhay Deol), a restless young man, itches to escape his father's faltering hair oil business.
No and Me
No and Me (2010)
, 1h45
Directed by Zabou Breitman
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, La précarité
Actors Zabou Breitman, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Bernard Campan, Antonin Chalon, Guilaine Londez, Grégoire Bonnet
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2663353.2663353.2663353.2663353.266335
Lou est une jeune fille de 13 ans surdouée et plutôt timide. Sa mère est dépressive. Pour faire un exposé sur le thème des SDF et de leur quotidien, elle interviewe No, jeune fille de 18 ans sans famille et à la rue. Elle apprend à la connaître, devient son amie et s'arrange pour que ses parents l'hébergent chez eux afin qu'elle puisse trouver un travail.
Paris Je T'aime, 1h55
Directed by Wes Craven, Gérard Depardieu, Bruno Podalydès, Alfonso Cuarón, Sylvain Chomet, Alexander Payne, Olivier Assayas, Christopher Doyle, Gus Van Sant, Richard LaGravenese, Walter Salles, Vincenzo Natali, Nobuhiro Suwa, Isabel Coixet, Gurinder Chadha, Oliver Schmitz, Tom Tykwer, Daniela Thomas, Frédéric Auburtin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Anthology film, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Julie Bataille, Steve Buscemi, Bruno Podalydès, Sergio Castellitto
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5979753.5979753.5979753.5979753.597975
Génération AMOUR...Au fil des quartiers, des histoires d'amour passager, voilé, mimé, vampirisé, malmené ou révélé...Un Pari(s) moderne émouvant et drôle, un film plein de vie(s) sur le thème de l'Amour.
Penelope
Penelope (2006)
, 1h41
Directed by Mark Palansky
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film
Actors Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Reese Witherspoon, Catherine O'Hara, Nick Frost, Russell Brand
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.3501553.3501553.3501553.3501553.350155
Penelope Wilhern (Christina Ricci) is a young woman from a wealthy family with all the qualities to make an excellent match for any other well-bred man of her status. What sets her apart is that she has pig-face disorder.
The Man of My Life, 1h54
Directed by Zabou Breitman
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Bernard Campan, Charles Berling, Léa Drucker, Jacqueline Jehanneuf, Éric Prat, Antonin Chalon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.289133.289133.289133.289133.28913
Comme chaque été, Frédéric et sa femme Frédérique (aussi) qui affichent leur hétérosexualité sans complexe vont passer les vacances dans leur maison de la Drôme.
All the Invisible Children, 1h56
Directed by John Woo, Emir Kusturica, Ridley Scott, Spike Lee, Kátia Lund, Jordan Scott, Mehdi Charef
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Kelly Macdonald, David Thewlis, Jiang Wenli, Hannah Hodson Rose, Andre Royo, Rosie Perez
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73% 3.6952253.6952253.6952253.6952253.695225
Seven young freedom fighters, heavily armed, are covering ground looking for the enemy. At twenty-one their leader is the eldest. Tanza is twelve and has joined this group after witnessing the massacre of his family. While bathing in a river in the middle of the forest, trying to forget their lives as soldiers for a while, they are unaware that in a short time one of them will be dead and one will be sent to blow up a school, where in a few hours other children just like them will be arriving.
Life Is a Miracle, 2h32
Directed by Emir Kusturica
Origin Serbie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Slavko Stimac, Mirjana Karanović, Vuk Kostić, Aleksandar Berček, Nikola Kojo, Vanessa Glodjo
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74% 3.748133.748133.748133.748133.74813
The film opens just as construction has been completed on a railway connecting a mountainous regions of eastern Bosnia and western Serbia in 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer, has moved to Bosnia from Belgrade with his mentally unstable wife, Jadranka, and his football-playing son, Miloš, to run a railway station and act as caretaker. Luka is at work preparing the opening of the railway while Miloš attempts to become a professional footballer with the Partizan team. Utterly engrossed in his work and blinded by natural optimism, Luka remains deaf to the increasingly persistent rumblings of war, which has broken out in Croatia and threatens to spread.
Me and My Sister, 1h33
Directed by Alexandra Leclère
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Frot, François Berléand, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Vuillermoz, Christiane Millet
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.185933.185933.185933.185933.18593
Louise, esthéticienne au Mans, vient passer trois jours chez sa sœur Martine qui vit à Paris. Martine a apparemment tout ! Tout sauf l'essentiel. Et l'essentiel, justement, Louise l'a ! En l'espace de trois jours, Louise et son bonheur évident exaspèrent Martine au plus haut point et font voler sa vie en éclats.
Highway
Highway (2002)
, 1h37
Directed by James Cox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair, John C. McGinley, Jeremy Piven, Shannon Leto
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.04513.04513.04513.04513.0451
Set in 1994, the film opens in Las Vegas with Pilot Kelson (Jake Gyllenhaal), a drug dealer, who poses as a valet and takes a customer's Rolls Royce to give his girlfriend a ride to work. His best friend Jack Hayes (Jared Leto) is a self-employed pool cleaner, who gets caught having sex with the wife of Burt Miranda (Mark Rolston), an organized crime figure. While Jack escapes the initial confrontation with Miranda unharmed, Miranda sends a trio of goons (referred to throughout the remainder of the film as "Miranda's Pandas") to break Jack's feet. Jack convinces Pilot to flee and Pilot proposes they go to Seattle without telling him they're going there to see an old fling of Pilot's.