Biography of Luc Besson

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the March 19 March 19, 1959 Luc Besson was born 1959 in Paris. Parents are diving instructors, and Luc as a child follows them into their laps around the world, nurturing dreams of becoming a marine biologist specializing in the study of dolphins. Unfortunately due to an accident at sea, which occurred when only seventeen years old, is forced to abandon this dream. She decided to cultivate his passion for cinema; passion that always accompanies such an intense activity of writing. He began working in this area by making a series of odd jobs until he moved to Hollywood to attend film school. Back in France, he founded his own film production company, "Le films du loup", which later became "Les films du dauphin". It's just driving this film company that produced his first feature film, in 1981, "L'Avant Dernier", followed by a black and white production "Le dernier Combat" featuring Jean Reno, an actor that Luc Besson particularly likes directing. In 1985 he directed Isabelle Adjani and Christophe Lambert in "Mon Beau Lègionnarie", film for the role of which Lambert won the César award for best actor. In 1986 Besson travels the world to make his film "Le grand Bleu" (the big blue). The shooting lasted nine months, and the film opens the Cannes Film Festival 1988 becoming even the manifest of an entire generation. The film is rich in different environments: Greece, Sicily, Peru and United States. Unfortunately the distribution in Italy of the film is locked for about fourteen years because of libel brought by Italian diver Enzo Maiorca, free-diving record holder, riconosciutosi in the character of freediving Enzo Molinari, played in the film by Jean Reno. The great success for Luc Besson arrives with the film "Nikita" (1990) which will also have an American remake: "codename: Nina" (1993). The film's success is repeated by the following production: "Leon" (1995), with Jean Reno in the role of the now famous killer, and then twelve year old Natalie Portman. Léon will be one of the most French films seen abroad in 1995. International success allows the French Director to have more funding and aim to lead international cast. Turns thus, in 1997, "the fifth element"; the film's cast is almost entirely in Hollywood: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman and Milla Jovovich. In December of the same year, Milla Jovovich and Luc Besson marry, divorce after just two years, in 1999, but not before it has been directed at its own version of the story of Joan of arc. At the same time as its directing Besson also takes care of his work as a producer with such films as "Taxi," "Taxi2", "The Dancer". The partnership with Jean Reno is such that the two blend together the production company "Wasabi", that will not be the only Director's production company, who with Pierre-Ange Le Pogam also founded "Le cinéma Europe-EuropaCorp." The latter production company does not develop on the screen well forty-eight productions a year dealing with all sectors: video production, music production, distribution and sale in international markets. In early 2000 he founded a House of Cinema in Saint Denis, on the northern outskirts of Paris. After his "Joan of Arc" created in 1999 takes a long break in order to dedicate to the activity as a producer and writer, and his family. In 2004 he married Virginie Silla producer with whom he has two daughters. In 2006 back behind the camera with the black and white film "Angel-a". Filming takes place in absolute secrecy, almost in secret. The following year it turns the film "Arthur and the Invisibles," winner of the Imagina Award 2007 for best feature film, followed by two subsequent episodes "Arthur and the revenge of Martazard" (2009) and "Arthur 3. The war of the two worlds "(2010). With these three productions Luc Besson tosses in cartoon challenge, driven by the desire to impose a European production in a market totally dominated by American giants. In 2011 it turns the film "The Lady" that opens the sixth edition of the Rome Film Festival. The film tells the story of Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, and her husband, Englishman Michael Aris.
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