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May 18, 2022 · A new arrival in the Official Selection, Mathieu Vadepied, art director of Intouchables (The Intouchables) and of Sens de la fête (C’est la Vie) makes his debut at Un Certain Regard as the director of Tirailleurs (Father and Soldier), a war film with Omar Sy, which revisits the fate of Senegalese soldiers enlisted in the French army in 1914-18.
Jan 10, 2024 · “Vous ne serez plus des Indigènes, vous serez des Français”: A Reading of Mathieu Vadepied’s Tirailleurs (English translation) Author: Meryem Belkaïd (Bowdoin College) Keywords: colonial soldiers, official narratives, memory knots, cinema. How to Cite:
May 25, 2022 · Vadepied makes a meaningful commentary about French abuse against colonial subjects in the name of the war effort, illustrating how the nationalistic ideals so often parrotted in war films...
In this story, all the ingredients for dark drama are reunited: two kids are dealing in order to uproot themselves from the prevailing social determinism which entombs them in their condition of immigrants’ children. But Mathieu Vadepied chooses a luminous and humorous approach, without taking the easy way about it.
Mathieu Vadepied was born on 25 May 1963 in Paris, France. He is an art director and director, known for The Intouchables (2011), Father & Soldier (2022) and Learn by Heart (2015).
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- Art Director, Director, Cinematographer
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- Mathieu Vadepied
Dec 20, 2022 · Mathieu Vadepied, who was a cinematographer on “Intouchables,” talked to me during the shoot about his desire to direct a film. He had this idea of making a movie about the Tirailleurs from...
MATHIEU VADEPIED, DIRECTOR: “ FATHER AND SOLDIER. IS THE PROJECT OF A LIETIME” WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE FILM . FATHER AND SOLDIER? The idea of the film goes back to 1998 and the death of the last Senegalese soldier (Abdoulaye Ndiaye, at the age of 104, conscripted in 1914). Ironically enough, he died the day
