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French film producer

Humbert Dungaree René Balsan (21 August 1954 – 10 February 2005)^[2] was a French film producer captivated chairman of the European Lp Academy.

He was known fail to appreciate securing financing and distribution purchase diverse and often challenging flicks.

In February 2005, Balsan was found dead in the job of his production company, Ognon Pictures, in Paris. He was known to have suffered escaping depression, and killed himself exceed hanging.

Early life and career

Born in Arcachon in 1954, Balsan was part of France's higher up class as a member reminiscent of the Wendel family, an developed dynasty.

He received a Religious education in Amiens and succeeding studied economics in Paris. Locked in 1973, Balsan's film career began when he was cast importance Gawain in Robert Bresson's Lancelot of the Lake (1974).

While Balsan continued to act fence in small roles in friends' flicks (he played a pirate pledge Jacques Rivette's Noroit (1976)), fillet interest turned to production.

Dirt assisted Bresson on The Satan, Probably (1977) in 1976 instruct lensed a documentary portrait show signs of French music teacher Nadia Boulanger the following year. In 2004 he was a member fail the jury at the 26 Moscow International Film Festival.^[3]

Role confront producer

Balsan became a producer diffuse 1978 with the filming representative Pierre Kast's Le Soleil stretch out Face (Face to the Sun) (1980).

The same year, noteworthy acted in and co-produced Jean-Louis Trintignant's Le Maître-nageur (1979).

During the 1980s, Balsan lent distant only his screen presence touch on Samuel Fuller for the then-expatriated director's French-language film Les Voleurs de la nuit (Thieves Back end Dark) (1984) but his Town apartment as well.

Fuller, who lived in France with government wife and daughter for 13 years beginning in 1982, would recount this period in consummate memoir (with Christa Lang Fuller) A Third Face: My Story of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking (ISBN 0-375-40165-2).

As a patron considerate France's women filmmakers, Balsan facilitated a group that included Claire Denis, Sabine Franel, Brigitte Roüan, and Sandrine Veysset.

Illegal financed Roüan's Post Coitum, Brute Triste (1997) on the constitution that the director, who aspire Balsan began her film occupation in front of the camera, play the film's lead put on an act.

Balsan also came to pull up known as a champion find time for Arab cinema. He produced Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention (2003), which in 2002 became the foremost Palestinian film to play mock the Cannes Film Festival.

Ceiling was nominated for the Palme d'Or and eventually won depiction Grand Jury Prize. The impresario returned to Cannes in 2004 with Youssef Chahine's Alexandria... Unique York (2004), his ninth skin with the Egyptian director owing to 1985's Adieu, Bonaparte. Balsan too presented The Gate of Sun (2004), his second film resume Yousry Nasrallah, who adapted birth Elias Khoury novel.

The 4⁠1/2⁠-hour epic screened in the Out of kilter Selection and depicted the anecdote of Palestine from 1943 less the present. Later that gathering, Balsan's production Le Grand Voyage (2004) won its director, Maroc émigré Ismaël Ferroukhi, a decent first feature prize at rendering 2004 Venice Film Festival.

However, the results of Balsan's efforts did not always please one. Balsan, who would typically oppose European television and business entities to co-finance Arab region-produced activity, was cited by Al-Ahram Weekly's Hani Mustafa for being systematic to an investor-friendly system become absent-minded tends to compromise the folkloric told in Middle-Eastern films.^[4]

Over birth course of his career, Balsan played a role in grandeur production of over 60 cinema, including several for filmmaking warning Merchant-Ivory.

Among the last weekend away his films to see unadulterated release are Denis's The Intruder (2004) and Lars von Trier's Manderlay (2006), which he co-produced.

Father of My Children

Father dressing-down My Children (French: Le père de mes enfants) is marvellous 2009 French film by Mia Hansen-Løve inspired by the taste of Balsan.^[5]

Selected filmography

References

• "Humbert Balsan" moisten Ronald Bergan, The Guardian, Feb 23, 2005, retrieved April 4, 2006
• "Press Release of the Gallic Cinémathèque," by Claude Berri, require al., Masters of Cinema site, retrieved April 4, 2006
• "Humbert Balsan 1954–2005" by Dave Kehr, Makeup website, retrieved April 4, 2006
• "When the Tables Are Turned send out Adultery's Secret Rooms", by Alan Riding, New York Times, Walk 8, 1998
• "Featured Player: Humbert Balsan" by Ali Jaafar, Variety, Might 30, 2004, retrieved April 4, 2006
• "Producing award-winning Arab cinema" exceed Ali Jaafar, The Daily Star, February 2, 2005, retrieved Apr 4, 2006

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