Jacques Nolot
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Jacques Nolot
Jacques Nolot (born 31 August 1943 at Marciac
, Gers
in France
), is a French
actor
, screenwriter
and film director
.
. In the French capital, he worked selling vegetables while taking acting classes. At age seventeen, he decided to move to Cannes
in order to become a star. Young and without economical resources, he became the lover of a rich woman and later began hustling for men. His life was the street.
At age nineteen, he met Roland Barthes
, who was more than twenty years his senior. They became lovers. Barthes introduced him to Parisian intellectuals among them André Téchiné
. In the 1980s and 1990s Nolot took small roles in some of Téchiné's films beginning with Hôtel des Amériques
(1981. He performed in many other films including Long Live Life (1984), Scene of the Crime (1986), Les innocents (1987) or Nenette and Boni (1996). As an actor he is best remembered for his role as Charlotte Rampling
's lover in François Ozon
Under the Sand, (Sous le sable) (2000).
Nolot recounted his restless youth in his unpublished novel The First Step, (Le Premiere pas). Nolot and Téchiné converted the story in the screenplay for Téchiné's 1991 film, I don't kiss
(J'embrasse pas). Since then Nolot has written stories with strong auto biographic elements. His first play, La matiouette ou l'arrière-pays, grew up out of a night of improvisation with two friends that was recorded on an audio cassette and then transcribed by hand. It was adapted to the screen by Téchiné in 1983.
In 1986, Nolot wrote, directed, and acted in the short film Manège that would be the genesis for his later feature film Porn Theater (2002). He wrote and starred in a second short: Le café des Jules (1989), directed by Paul Vecchiali
.
Nolot made his first feature film Hinterland (1998) LArriere pays, the film written by Nolot, was initially going to be directed by Claire Denis
, but when the project with Denis felt through, he took the direction of the film's original title translate as the Back Country and makes reference to Nolot's rural village where he grew up. The plot follows the story of a man who returns to his rural hometown for the final hour of his mother's life and her subsequent funeral. Coming back as a city man, he is a stranger to both his father, who always riled on his bastard son money without wanting to know where it came from, and his brother, a macho womanizer. Hinterland won the First Film Special Distinction Award at the Montreal World Film Festival and a FIPRESCI Special Mention Award at the Venice Film Festival both in 1998. Nolot earned a nomination for Best New Director of a Feature Film at the César Awards in 1999.
In 2000 while working in Benoît Graffin
's Café de la plage
(2001), the actor had a heart attack and fell into coma. He finished the film after his complete recovery. Nolot's second film film Porn theater
chatte à deux têtes was screened in the Un Certain Regard
section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
. 2002, shot entirely in a Paris movie theater was critically well received.
In his third film Before I Forget (Avant que j'oublie) Nolot portrays an aging HIV positive, a hustler in his youth who now in a reversal of roles has to pay for sex.
Jacques Nolot (born 31 August 1943 at Marciac
Marciac
Marciac is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. It is known for its annual international jazz festival, which runs for a fortnight every summer.-Features:...
, Gers
Gers
The Gers is a department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in the southwest of France named after the Gers River.Inhabitants are called les Gersois or Gersoises.-History:...
in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
), is a French
Cinema of France
The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
.
Life
Jacques Nolot was born on 31 August 1943, Marciac, Gers, a small village in Southwest France. A fragile child, Nolot was doted upon by his mother, a woman who had three children with three different fathers. An illegitimate child, Nolot's family environment was troublesome and from an early age he wanted to run away from home. "The sole elegance my parents had was to allow me to leave. And then to die quickly" he later explained in an interview. At age 16, he was working at the village's grocery store, when a tourist stopping there offered him to take him to ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. In the French capital, he worked selling vegetables while taking acting classes. At age seventeen, he decided to move to Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
in order to become a star. Young and without economical resources, he became the lover of a rich woman and later began hustling for men. His life was the street.
At age nineteen, he met Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...
, who was more than twenty years his senior. They became lovers. Barthes introduced him to Parisian intellectuals among them André Téchiné
André Téchiné
André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....
. In the 1980s and 1990s Nolot took small roles in some of Téchiné's films beginning with Hôtel des Amériques
Hôtel des Amériques
Hôtel des Amériques is a 1981 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Catherine Deneuve and Patrick Dewaere. The film, set in Biarritz, tells the ill fated romance of mismatch lovers...
(1981. He performed in many other films including Long Live Life (1984), Scene of the Crime (1986), Les innocents (1987) or Nenette and Boni (1996). As an actor he is best remembered for his role as Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
's lover in François Ozon
François Ozon
François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....
Under the Sand, (Sous le sable) (2000).
Nolot recounted his restless youth in his unpublished novel The First Step, (Le Premiere pas). Nolot and Téchiné converted the story in the screenplay for Téchiné's 1991 film, I don't kiss
J'embrasse pas
I Don't Kiss is a 1991 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Manuel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart and Philippe Noiret. The film is a grim, melancholic portrait of a young man searching and failing to find meaning in his life. The film had a total of 472,187 admissions in France...
(J'embrasse pas). Since then Nolot has written stories with strong auto biographic elements. His first play, La matiouette ou l'arrière-pays, grew up out of a night of improvisation with two friends that was recorded on an audio cassette and then transcribed by hand. It was adapted to the screen by Téchiné in 1983.
In 1986, Nolot wrote, directed, and acted in the short film Manège that would be the genesis for his later feature film Porn Theater (2002). He wrote and starred in a second short: Le café des Jules (1989), directed by Paul Vecchiali
Paul Vecchiali
Paul Vecchiali is a French author and filmmaker.-Biography:He spent his childhood in Toulon. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war....
.
Nolot made his first feature film Hinterland (1998) LArriere pays, the film written by Nolot, was initially going to be directed by Claire Denis
Claire Denis
Claire Denis is a French film director and Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Early life:...
, but when the project with Denis felt through, he took the direction of the film's original title translate as the Back Country and makes reference to Nolot's rural village where he grew up. The plot follows the story of a man who returns to his rural hometown for the final hour of his mother's life and her subsequent funeral. Coming back as a city man, he is a stranger to both his father, who always riled on his bastard son money without wanting to know where it came from, and his brother, a macho womanizer. Hinterland won the First Film Special Distinction Award at the Montreal World Film Festival and a FIPRESCI Special Mention Award at the Venice Film Festival both in 1998. Nolot earned a nomination for Best New Director of a Feature Film at the César Awards in 1999.
In 2000 while working in Benoît Graffin
Benoît Graffin
Benoît Graffin is a French screenwriter and film director. In 1998 he won Development Grant for Café de la plage in the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival.- Filmography :As a writer:*De vrais mensonges...
's Café de la plage
Café de la plage
Café de la plage is a 2001 French film written and directed by Benoît Graffin. The film stars Jacques Nolot, Ouassini Embarek, Leïla Belarbi, Delia Amrani, Meryem Serbah, Mohamed El Hasnaoui, Abdelaziz Semlali, Hind Ramdi....
(2001), the actor had a heart attack and fell into coma. He finished the film after his complete recovery. Nolot's second film film Porn theater
Glowing Eyes (film)
Glowing Eyes is a 2002 French drama film directed by and starring Jacques Nolot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Vittoria Scognamiglio - Cashier* Jacques Nolot - 50-Year-Old Man...
chatte à deux têtes was screened in the Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
2002 Cannes Film Festival
The 2002 Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May. The Palme d'Or went to the Polish-French-German-British co-produced film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski.-Jury:* David Lynch * Sharon Stone* Michelle Yeoh...
. 2002, shot entirely in a Paris movie theater was critically well received.
In his third film Before I Forget (Avant que j'oublie) Nolot portrays an aging HIV positive, a hustler in his youth who now in a reversal of roles has to pay for sex.
As film director
- HinterlandHinterlandThe hinterland is the land or district behind a coast or the shoreline of a river. Specifically, by the doctrine of the hinterland, the word is applied to the inland region lying behind a port, claimed by the state that owns the coast. The area from which products are delivered to a port for...
(1998) (L'arrière-pays) - Porn theatherGlowing Eyes (film)Glowing Eyes is a 2002 French drama film directed by and starring Jacques Nolot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Vittoria Scognamiglio - Cashier* Jacques Nolot - 50-Year-Old Man...
(2002): La chatte à deux têtes - Before I Forget (2007) Avant que j'oublie