Romain Goupil

Romain Goupil

Birthday: 1951-07-12

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Biography: Politically committed to the left, Romain Goupil, born in 1951, is the most eloquent representative of the spirit of the revolution of May 1968. From his first feature in 1982, Mourir à 30 ans (1982) to his latest to date Les mains en l' air (2010), he has managed to remain faithful to his ideals, quite a feat if you think of all of his fellow revolutionaries who have changed sides, lured by money and/or power. His films, whether documentaries or fiction, have failed -with one or two exceptions - to draw large audience but they will remain a mirror of a whole generation.

Movies

Fat Girl
Fat Girl

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...

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À mort la mort !
À mort la mort !

The idea for this film about a generation and its lost ideals came to Romain Goupil after attending ...

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Hands in the Air
Hands in the Air

March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant i...

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René Vautier, le rebelle
René Vautier, le rebelle

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Half a Life
Half a Life

Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to mee...

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Mon homme
Mon homme

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Les Jours venus
Les Jours venus

The day comes when your children look at your past as if you had fought at Verdun. The day comes whe...

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Godard Cinema
Godard Cinema

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi...

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A Letter to L...
A Letter to L...

She was 18. They were in love and lived together for ten years. 20 years later, he receives a letter...

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Room 666
Room 666

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at...

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His Mother's Eyes
His Mother's Eyes

A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television jou...

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Godard Mon Amour
Godard Mon Amour

In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-yea...

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Purely Coincidental
Purely Coincidental

A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. Th...

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Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators

Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Lero...

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On the Road in France
On the Road in France

Fifty years after the events of May 68, Dany Cohn-Bendit and Romain Goupil have decided to start a j...

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A Christmas Tale
A Christmas Tale

When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Chri...

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Venus Beauty Institute
Venus Beauty Institute

Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train sta...

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Rien dans les poches
Rien dans les poches

25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then ...

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Marguerite Duras and the '68ers
Marguerite Duras and the '68ers

Here Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her ques...

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10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir
10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir

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Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World

Gustave Courbet defied the conventions of classical French painting to become an innovator of Realis...

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The Easy Way Out
The Easy Way Out

Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long t...

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Les murs porteurs
Les murs porteurs

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Je sais pas, je sais pas
Je sais pas, je sais pas

Storm in Brittany. Destruction of a pheasant farm. Reflections between father and son on the future....

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