Cédric Klapisch

Cédric Klapisch (born September 4, 1961), is a French film director. Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII. He was rejected on two occasions by the prestigious French film school IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques), now known as La fémis. He later attended the film school at New York University from 1983 to 1985. During the 1980s, he started to shoot short films such as In transit or Ce qui me meut. He subsequently worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for feature films. He has also directed a nature documentary for French television. Klapisch's next film, Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire), had its production delayed for 4 months. During this period, he devised a new, low-budget product, which became L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment). Shot in Spain, this film became his greatest box-office success.

Works

La flûte enchantée au Théâtre des Champs Elysées

Release Date:2024-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Greek Salad

Takes place twenty years after the events of “L’Auberge Espanole,” and follows Tom and Mia, the children of the film’s protagonists Xavier and Wendy, as they spend time in Athens.

Release Date:2023-04-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:27

Beau geste

Release Date:2023-01-22

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Babyphone

Freshly installed in a country house with her husband and their 6-month-old son, Agathe discovers a child's bedroom that had previously been locked behind a partition. Untouched, nothing seems to have moved since the 90s. Even the old baby monitor abandoned in a drawer is still functional. Buoyed by her husband's enthusiasm, the young mother agrees to install their son there, at the price of hanging on to the device, listening for the slightest noise. But when strange emanations sow doubt and confusion in Agathe's mind, she will have to sort out her new environment, her latent fatigue and her maternal anxieties.

Release Date:2023-01-13

Character:Le psychiatre

Vote Count:1

Rise

Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.

Release Date:2022-03-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:417

Belmondo l'influenceur

Release Date:2020-11-10

Character:Self

Vote Count:7

Still Not...Breathless

Documentary about the ongoing influence of 'Breathless' after 60 years

Release Date:2020-11-04

Character:Self

Cinéma par... Cédric Klapisch

Release Date:2020-05-11

Character:Self

Un bon moment

Kyan Khojandi and Bruno Muschio (Navo) host different guests each week to spend A Good Time.

Release Date:2020-01-12

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Someone, Somewhere

Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.

Release Date:2019-09-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:660

To the Ends of the World

Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên, one of the leaders of the insurrection.

Release Date:2018-12-05

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:81

La Fête du Cinéma

Short film for the 2018 Fête du Cinéma

Release Date:2018-05-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Back to Burgundy

Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.

Release Date:2017-06-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Un vendangeur (uncredited)

Vote Count:574

Quand Jean devint Renoir

The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Release Date:2017-04-30

Character:Self - Interviewee

Vote Count:1

L'histoire de Manon, Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris

Release Date:2016-10-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Renaud Lavillenie, jusqu'au bout du haut

Release Date:2016-07-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Cédric Klapisch

Call My Agent!

At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis.

Release Date:2015-10-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:169

Chinese Puzzle

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

Release Date:2013-12-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:le photographe (caméo)

Vote Count:687

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

Release Date:2011-10-25

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

My Piece of the Pie

France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...

Release Date:2011-03-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:184

Aurélie Dupont, l'espace d'un instant

Release Date:2010-03-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Paris

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.

Release Date:2008-02-20

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:336

Ballerina

Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different stages in their career.

Release Date:2006-08-31

Character:Self

Vote Count:8

Russian Dolls

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

Release Date:2005-06-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:L'homme qui veut aller aux toilettes dans le train (uncredited)

Vote Count:688

Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)

"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.

Release Date:2003-03-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:66

The Spanish Apartment

A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.

Release Date:2002-06-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Un professeur à la recherche de ses élèves

Vote Count:1145

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.

Release Date:2002-05-20

Character:Self

Princesses

Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds of a criminal origin. Her husband Simon thought they were his and murdered her. Then he set out his hunt for the diamonds and for killing Johan. The police thought that Johan had murdered Loïc and called his daughters, who had not known about each other. Afterwards Sophie receives a note to take a certain train to Amsterdam. A young boy gives Virginie the oral message "The treasure is in the trout". She immediately understands that this trout must be in her mother's freezer, unknown to the mother. Both girls take the train. Simon contacts them as a helpful fellow-passenger. The girls soon detect his aim of murdering them. In Brussels they escape the train. Virginie steals a car but is not as good at driving as at stealing (she will prove this again).

Release Date:2000-09-13

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2

Peut-être

Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.

Release Date:1999-11-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:L'épicier

Vote Count:71

Vivement dimanche

Release Date:1998-09-20

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

The Lilac Sweep

A man is watching a pornographic film and mysteriously gets in the plot. It is is from a series of short erotic films promoting condoms. These films were made for French TV.

Release Date:1998-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Le chauffeur

Sodomites

Pornographic shortfilm directed in 1998 for a campaign against AIDS, in association with French Ministry for Health. Phallus, a muscular Maciste with a huge penis, and Sodoma, a beautiful sodomite with a ponytail, find each other in the night, in an empty place. The king gives them, witnessed by Amazons in combat dress, a condom and a lube.

Release Date:1998-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:41

Family Resemblances

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

Release Date:1996-09-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Father in 1967

Vote Count:285

When the Cat's Away

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.

Release Date:1996-04-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:92

Lumière & Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Release Date:1995-12-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:66

Good Old Daze

Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.

Release Date:1995-01-11

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Character:Obstetricien

Vote Count:248

Le Poisson rouge

Release Date:1994-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Little Nothings

Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.

Release Date:1992-11-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:47

Ce qui me meut

The life of Etienne-Jules Marey, the 19th century pioneer of photography and cinema, famous for studying animal and human locomotion.

Release Date:1986-06-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

In Transit

Les mésaventures absurdes de Léopold Pavlovsky, bloqué en transit à New York.

Release Date:1986-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Musician

Vote Count:1

Colours Of Time

Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. In 1895, their ancestor Adèle, then aged 21, leaves her hometown to search for her mother in Paris. She discovers a city on the cusp of modernity, bustling with new-found avant-garde creativity, with the rise of photography and the birth of Impressionist painting. As her descendants retrace her steps, they unravel Adèle's surprising past. The two timelines of 1895 and 2024 intertwine and collide, confronting the cousins’ contemporary attitudes with life in late 19th century Paris, leaving everyone’s future forever changed.

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Babysitter

The story follows a young male protagonist as he recalls the babysitters of his youth.

Release Date:1984-02-01

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:2

La Chambre

There are many ways to make love, but there is only one way to protect yourself…

Department:Directing

Job:Director