Short films jury – Louis Do de Lencquesaing
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Biography
After a training in dramatic arts at the Perimony School, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing starts staging for the theater with The Country by Martin Crimp and Blasted by Sarah Kane. As an actor, he works with prestigious directors such as Bruno Bayen, Valere Novarina and Andre Engel.
He makes his debut in cinema in Cedric Kahn’s short film Les Dernières Heures du millénaire (1990). Less than a year later, the actor is chosen by Arnaud Desplechin for his first film, the mourning chronicle La Vie des Morts, and by Claude Chabrol for his adaptation of Madame Bovary, in which he stars alongside Isabelle Huppert. He renews the experience with Desplechin’s troubling The Sentinel (1992) before appearing in Jean-Luc Godard’s Alas for Me (1993) and in Pascal Bonitzer’s first film, More (1996).
While never leaving the stage, the actor pursues his movie career joining sentimental dramas like Laetitia Masson’s For Sale (1998) and Olivier Assayas’ Les Destinées. He directs several short films mixing together the world of cinema and theater : Il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée (1994), Mécréant (1999), Première séance (2005).
Since 1998, he ventures on television, taking part in episodes of Louis la Brocante, Avocats & Associés and L’École du Pouvoir. In 2006, he shoots twice with Benoit Jacquot, first in the TV film Gaspard le Bandit, then in The Untouchable, in which he plays Isild Le Besco’s lover. The movie was nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival that year, which helped making his name more familiar to the audience. This also allowed him to get his first leading role in Mia Hansen-Løve’s second film, The Father of my Children (2009), in which he plays a cinema producer facing his production failures.
In the 2011’s Cannes Film Festival, he stars in three films all centering on desire and sexual perversion: Bertrand Bonello’s House of Tolerance, in which he plays a painter fascinated by the female beauty, Eva Ionesco’s My Little Princess, an autobiographical narrative about an erotic photographer in which he’s reunited with Isabelle Huppert, and the Jury Prize winner Polisse, following the daily life of the Brigade for the Protection of Minors. The same year, the actor is invited by Philippe Ramos to join the cast of The Silence of Joan, a reinterpretation of the story of Joan of Arc. He also appears in the 4 star cast of the musical and romantic comedy The Art of Love and plays a small part in the noteworthy A Happy Event.
After a busy year, the actor starts 2012 by starring again in a movie mentioning prostitution, Elles, directed by Malgorzata Szumowska, alongside Juliette Binoche. In 2016, he stars in Stephanie Di Giusto’s The Dancer with Soko and Melanie Thierry and in James Huth’s Brice 3 with Jean Dujardin.
