Cédric Klapisch

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About Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch (born September 4, 1961), is a French film director.
Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family., and his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema in France at IDHEC (now known as La Fémis). He later attended the film school at New York University from 1983 to 1985. During the 1980's, he started to shoot short films such as In transit or Ce qui me meut. He subsequently worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for feature films. He has also directed a nature documentary for French television.
In 1992, Klapisch shot his first feature film, Riens du tout. One year later, a TV channel asked him to make a film about college life, set in 1975, Le péril jeune. The film had a very small budget and featured Romain Duris and Vincent Elbaz, who would become two of his favourite actors. Due to its success when broadcast on TV, the film was released in the theaters two years later. During the 1990's, Klapisch made three short films to encourage the use of the condoms in combatting AIDS: La chambre, Le Poisson Rouge and Le Ramoneur des Lilas.
In 1996, Klapisch gained greater international recognition after he directed two divergent films, Chacun cherche son chat (When the Cat's Away), and an adaptation of the French theatre comedy Un air de famille. Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, the two scriptwriters and main actors, asked him to adapt the play into a film. The film received César Awards for the script and for the female and male supporting roles, Catherine Frot and Jean-Pierre Daroussin. His next film, Peut-être (Maybe), from 1999, featured Jean-Paul Belmondo, Duris and Elbaz.
Klapisch's next film, Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire), had its production delayed for 4 months. During this period, he devised a new, low-budget product, which became L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment). Shot in Spain, this film became his greatest box-office success. In 2005, he filmed a sequel to L'Auberge Espagnole, Les Poupées Russes (The Russian Dolls), with many of the same actors from L'Auberge Espagnole. His most recent film, Paris, was released in February 2008.

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