The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
French Film Festival , Nationwide Another cross-channel package of established talents and rising stars, including this year's hot tip A Prophet, fresh from its Best Film triumph at the London Film Festival. Other recent features include Versailles, (with a heartrending performance from the late Guillaume Dépardieu), outsider artist biopic Séraphine, Agatha Christie sleuth caper Crime...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight Fonda's defensiveness (he seems to be vouchsafing his emotion and talent to the audience in tiny blips) comes from having a supremely convex body and being too modest to exploit it. Fonda's entry into a scene is that of a man walking backward, slanting himself away from the public eye. Once in a scene, the heavy jaw freezes, becomes like a concrete abutment, and he affects a...
pr-media-blog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/05/2009
A few months ago I wrote about discovering via twitter that the French actor Guillaume Depardieu had died. Six months ago it seemed an oddity that ordinary individuals would break news ahead of the major media sources. It appears now that this is an established phenomenon. The sad news of Natasha Richardson’s fatal skiing accident [...]
In Theaters This Week (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Starring Aure Atika, Arthur H, François Creton, Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Louisa Pili, Christian Hecq
BBC News (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
France's first lady Carla Bruni is among the mourners at the funeral of Guillaume Depardieu, the son of film star Gerard Depardieu.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
Michael Dwyer leads off this week with news of the death of Guillaume Depardieu.
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
When thirty-seven-year old actor Guillaume Depardieu died on Monday of pneumonia in a Paris hospital, he had yet to escape the shadow of his iconic father, as even the headlines —what few headlines there were—demonstrated. Depardieu fils , as a younger man, led something of a dissolute celebrity child’s life and, famously, publicly clashed with his father . But the Son of Gerard...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Euro file: This talented actor deserved to escape from his father's titanic shadow but could never avoid being defined in relation to him
The First Post (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Mystery surrounds the last days of the French actor Guillaume Depardieu, son of Gerard Depardieu, who, as reported here yesterday, has died at 37 from complications related to pneumonia. It…
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
The tempestuous actor son of France's most famous tempestuous actor died of a sudden case of acute pneumonia. "[His] health had never fully recovered from a life of drug addiction, a road crash and a hospital infection which forced the amputation of his right leg five years ago."...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
In 1996, Guillaume Depardieu won the César – the French equivalent of the Oscars – as best newcomer for his performance as Fred in the black comedy Les Apprentis (The Apprentices), directed by Pierre Salvadori. He subsequently acted in more than 30 feature and television films, emerging out of the shadows of his famous father, Gérard Depardieu, to garner excellent notices...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Ephemerist on fashion tyranny and Christina Hendricks' curves GreenCine Guillaume Depardieu has died @ 37 years young. I loved him in Pola X and Tout Les Matins du Mondes [sniffle] Cinema Styles "Bad Date" a screengrab story Huffington Post Tina Fey on Sarah Palin. "I'm done" And by done she means... NewNoxNext Lots of new Milk pics Roger Ebert on that Bette Davis stamp ~ 'what...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Guillaume Depardieu appeared in seven films or television dramas with his father, the great French actor Gérard Depardieu. He played his son (and kidnapper) in Aime ton père (2002) and exploited the family resemblance to play him as a young man in Tous les Matins du Monde (1991) and a non-musical version of Les Misérables (2000).
Twitch (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
After surviving a heroin addiction, multiple stints in prison, a motorcycle accidents and subsequent infection that led to having a leg amputated and an always-tumultuous relationship with his very famous father Gerard it seems almost anticlimactic to write that French actor Guillaume Depardieu died yesterday after a bout with pneumonia. Depardieu’s relationship with his father was one of the...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
I was extremely saddened to hear that Guillaume Depardieu, the actor son of Gérard, passed away yesterday at the age of 37. GreenCine reports that he died of pneumonia. This is very sad news indeed. Guillaume followed brilliantly in his father's footsteps, taking on challenging roles with skilled directors. He currently has two films playing in theatres in France: De la guerre , alongside Mathieu...
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