Christophe Barratier

Christophe Barratier born 17 June 1963 in Paris is a French film producer director and screenwriter and lyricist Barratier is the son of the actress Eva Simonet and M Barratier He is the nephew of the film director Jacques Perrin who was an influence on his choice of career Before being a filmmaker Barratier studied a university course in classical music and guitar lessons He graduated from the prestigious French public school École normale de Paris and won several international competition prizes In 1991 Barratier got into his uncle Jacques Perrins production firm Galatée Films where he learned the profession of producer As line producer he participated in making the films Microcosmos 1995 Himalaya 1999 and Winged Migration2001 In 2001 he directed his first short film Les tombales adapted from the Guy de Maupassant novel Starring Lambert Wilson and Carole Weiss His first feature The Chorus came out in 2004 An adaptation of the Jean Dréville movie La cage aux rossignols 1945 its scenario was jointly written with the screenwriter Philippe LopesCurval His second movie Paris 36 is based on iconic films choreographed by Busby Berkeley and has a storyline of proletarians confronted to an opportunity such as in La belle équipe from Julien Duvivier 1936 Alongside the producer Thomas Langmann he started working on a new adaptation of War of the Buttons 2011 is an adaptation of La Guerre des boutons War of the Buttons based on the 1912 novel by Louis Pergaud It is altered by being set during World War II and the German Occupation of France It was produced and cowritten by Thomas Langmann an Academy Awardwinner for The Artist with financial participation by Canal Plus It was released in France in September 2011 and cost 16 million Following this Barratier directed Team Spirit which revisits the career of Jérôme Kerviel as a trader in the Société Générale company The movie came out in June 2016 It marks a clear shift from his previous strongly historically connoted movies but seduces by its wellreferenced nature and a realism acquired thanks to its roots into Jérôme Kerviels biography Lengrenage mémoire dun trader Team Spirit highlighted a very mediated case while maintaining a storyline based on impartiality towards the man who presented himself as a victim of the banking system In 2017 Barratier presented the adaptation of his first success The Chorus as a musical show produced in the Folies Bergères theatre For his show the children of La maîtrise des HautsdeSeine are the new singers of the filmmaker The next year he signed a new partnership with Pascal Obispo to stage the musical Jésus de Nazareth à Jérusalem Based on the greatest Hollywoodian movies the musical dives into one of the most intense tales of humanity As the lyricist of The Chorus song Look To Your Path Barratier was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as eight César Awards of which it won two His second feature film Paris 36 starring Gérard Jugnot and Nora Arnezeder was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song and four César Awards Source Article Christophe Barratier from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30