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In Les Idoles (Odéon, 2019), Christophe Honoré had given center stage to the artists he admired in order to better dream of their meeting each other. In The Sky Over Nantes , he sets himself among the other characters.
Le Ciel de Nantes. Christophe Honoré has long carried in his mind an « imaginary movie » about his family. He never went so far as to shoot it. The plot interweaves six lives over three generations and extends from the bombing of Nantes during WW2 to President Chirac’s first term.
Mar 31, 2022 · Her role is gender-swapped in “The Sky of Nantes,” and affectionately played by Honoré’s own brother, Julien Honoré.
- Laura Cappelle
Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He started writing soon after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a film in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s.
Jan 31, 2023 · Not unlike the endless drafts and revisions David, Pollock, Balanchine, and Proust brought to their projects, Honoré’s labour is revealed in each detail attending image, sound, language, and performance.
Le Ciel de Nantes tells the story of his family's destiny over three generations and weaves together theatre, cinema and biography to create a multi-faceted, sensitive and enlightening account of family history and of what is passed on without being understood.
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Jan 3, 2014 · Studying Honoré's auteurist approach to film-making reveals that the legacy of the French New Wave can elicit and inspire the personal style and themes of the auteur-director, and at the same time, it highlights the anchoring of his films in the Paris of today.
