Laurent Cantet

Son of teachers, Laurent Cantet obtained an audiovisual master's degree in Marseille, then joined IDHEC in 1984, where he befriended future filmmakers such as Dominik Moll, Vincent Dietschy and Gilles Marchand. The latter hired him as cinematographer on his first short film, L'Etendu (1987), then renewed the collaboration in 1993 for another short film entitled Merry Christmas.


Graduated from the prestigious school in 1986 with an end-of-studies film entitled "Gold Diggers " , Laurent Cantet signs for television a documentary on the war in Lebanon ( "A summer in Beyrouth", 1990), before working as an assistant director on Veillées d'Armes (1994) by Marcel Ophuls. He soon stood out thanks to two short films in which he immediately dealt with two of his favorite themes: the class struggle in Tous à la demo (Prix Jean-Vigo 1995) and family ties in Jeux de plage (1995). , the short film that marks Jalil Lespert's screen debut.


After having directed in 1999 for Arte Les Sanguinaires within the framework of the collection "2000 vu par ...", Laurent Cantet turns, always with the support of the Franco-German channel, his first feature film: Human Resources (1999 ). Examining, with equal subtlety, social relationships in a factory and a father / son relationship. The film joins the strength of the documentary to that of the melodrama, a feat hailed by two Césars: Best first work and Best young hopeful for Jalil Lespert, the only professional actor in the middle of a cast of amateurs. In 2010, director Courtney Hunt made an American remake of this film (Human resources), produced by Alain Chabat.


Faithful to the same subjects, Cantet tackles the question of work in his second feature film L'Emploi du temps. Awarded in Venice in 2001, the film is inspired by the story of mythomaniac Jean-Claude Romand. With Vers le sud, his third opus, also presented at the Mostra, the filmmaker confronts a distant land (Haiti) and a renowned actress (Charlotte Rampling). In his own words, the film "compares the social misery of some and the sexual misery of others" , a new way for him to articulate the private and the political.


Cantet then embarked on the screen adaptation of François Bégaudeau's novel "Entre les murs", in which the author talks about his daily life as a French teacher in a difficult college. From this documentary material, the filmmaker signs a nuanced and stimulating fiction on the school environment, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival - a first since Under the Sun of Satan (1987). In 2012, he returned to the Croisette, collaborating with seven directors of different nationalities, directing the 7-day "La Fuente" segment in Havana, presented in the Official Selection at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. The director marks the start of the following year with feminist Foxfire, taken from American novelist Joyce Carol Oates ' "Confessions of a Girl Gang" .

In 2014, Laurent Cantet returned to Havana to direct Retour à Ithaque. The film tells the reunion of five friends on the occasion of the return of one of them. In 2017, the director presented in Cannes his new film, L'Atelier, again resulting from his collaboration with Robin Campillo and in which Marina Foïs slips into the skin of a recognized novelist supervising young people via a workshop of writing.

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Laurent Cantet Net Worth 2022

Laurent Cantet 's revenue is $1.2M in 2022. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Laurent Cantet and could vary in the range between $643.4K - $1.2M.

Laurent Cantet Net Worth 2021

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Laurent Cantet Net Worth 2020

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Laurent Cantet Net Worth 2019

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Laurent Cantet Net Worth 2018

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Laurent Cantet Net Worth 2017

Laurent Cantet 's revenue is $1.5M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Laurent Cantet and could vary in the range between $709.3K - $1.8M.

Laurent Cantet Net Worth 2016

Laurent Cantet 's revenue is $1.2M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Laurent Cantet and could vary in the range between $608.3K - $1M.

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