Michel Fau Movies & Biography

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MARGUERITE (2016)

Starring Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret, Denis Mpunga, Sylvain Dieuaide, Aubert Fenoy, Sophia Leboutte, Théo Cholbi and Astrid Whettnall. Directed by Xavier Giannoli.

1921, The beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris It is party day at Marguerite Dumont’s castle. Like every year, an array of music lovers gathers around a great cause at the owner’s place. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. Marguerite sings. She sings wholeheartedly, but she sings terribly out of tune. In ways quite similar to the Castafiore, Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience, always coming in for a good laugh, acts as if she was the diva she believes she is. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream. Despite her husband’s reluctance, and with the help of a has-been divo, both funny and mean, she decides to train for her first recital in front of a crowd of complete strangers.

THE GREAT ARCH
Starring Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud, Michel Fau, Micha Lescot, Jean Des Forêts, Ilaria Cabras, Alessandro Bressanello and Cédric Appietto. Directed by Stéphane Demoustier.

1982. President François Mitterrand has launched an international competition to design the flagship project of his term in office: the Great Arch of La Défense, a building to match and complement the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. To the surprise of everyone, the commission is won by an unknown 53-year-old from Copenhagen, Otto von Spreckelsen. An outsider with only a few modernist churches to his name, Spreckelsen’s stunning submission – taking the form of a perfect white cube – becomes the talk of the capital. Spreckelsen and his wife Liv arrive in Paris to commence, overseen by the project’s shrewd managing bureaucrat, but the purity of Spreckelsen’s envisioned design is soon tested not only by material and budgetary constraints but the vicissitudes of politics, forcing him to consider whether his desire for perfection is worth risking everything.

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MICHEL FAU

CAST

MARGUERITE (2016)