Jean-Marc Barr (born September 27, 1960) is a French-American film actor and director . He is best known for working on several films from Danish film director and frequent collaborator Lars von Trier since Europa (1991).
11-520: American Translation is a 2011 French adult film directed by Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr and Pierre Perrier and Lizzie Brocheré . Christophe and Aurore live a carnal and passionate love. Aurore discovers that Chris is actually a serial killer and this discovery pushes her to question the choices made in life. She runs away from a serious relationship from Dawn and fall in love with him. Meanwhile, Chris starts forming relationships with gay men and kills them afterwards. This article related to
22-469: A French film of the 2010s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a film with a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer theme is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jean-Marc Barr Barr was born to a French mother and an American father working in the United States Armed Forces . He is fluent in both French and English. Barr
33-442: A director, screenwriter and producer with the intimate love story Lovers . The film became the first part of a trilogy; the films that followed were the drama Too Much Flesh (2000) and the comedy Being Light (2001), which he co-directed with Pascal Arnold . Barr and Pascal also directed the 2006 film Chacun sa nuit (eng: One to another), where they first discovered Lizzie Brocher , Arthur Dupont and Karl E. Landler . This
44-596: The 2013 film adaptation of the Beat Generation autobiographical novel Big Sur . Lizzie Brocher%C3%A9 Lizzie Brocheré ( French: [bʁɔʃ.ʁe] , born 22 March 1985) is a French actress. Her English speaking credits include American Horror Story: Asylum (2012–2013), The Strain (2015), Versailles (2015–2017), Falling Water (2016–2018), War of the Worlds (2022), and American Gigolo (2022). Brocheré made her screen debut in 2002 at
55-669: The Guildhall School of Music and Drama . Barr began working in theatre in France in 1986. After finding work in television (including a small role in Hotel du Lac (1986), the BBC's version of the Booker prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner ), and film (in particular Hope and Glory (1987) by John Boorman ), he was cast in the tremendously successful The Big Blue (1988). Luc Besson cast him in
66-707: The Best Actress Award at the Saint-Jean-de-Luz Film Festival. Lizzie Brocheré is a French writer, actress and producer. She starred as the lead in Gale Anne Hurd 's sci-fi show Falling Water (2016–2018). She is known to US audiences for playing the role of Coco in Guillermo del Toro 's The Strain (2015), and the role of Grace in FX 's American Horror Story . Her international TV credits include
77-668: The Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2004), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of It All (2006) and Nymph()maniac (2013). In 2005 he starred in the French film Crustacés et Coquillages . In 1999 he starred in the French cinéma du corps/cinema of the body drama film, Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (French: J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche), directed by Didier Le Pêcheur . Barr's collaboration with von Trier put him on track to start directing his own work. He debuted in 1999 as
88-657: The age of 17, as Jeanne in the Hugo Santiago film Le Loup de la côte Ouest ( The Wolf of the West Coast ) (2002). Her big break came when she landed the lead role in the sensual Dogme 95 film One to Another , directed by Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold with whom she collaborated again a few years later on with the thriller American Translation . Her other film credits include Eric Schaeffer 's After Fall, Winter ; and Karin Albou 's The Wedding Song , for which she won
99-477: The role of French diver Jacques Mayol , alongside Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno . The Big Blue was the most financially successful film in France in the 1980s. In 1991, Barr starred in Danish director Lars von Trier 's Europa , marking the beginning of a long friendship (he is the godfather of von Trier's children) as well as a significant professional relationship. He went on to appear in von Trier's Breaking
110-672: Was born in West Germany where his father was stationed, and lived an itinerant childhood. His family moved to France in 1968, then to California in 1974. Barr's parents wished for him to join the armed forces, but he was unwilling to follow in his father's footsteps. He studied philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles , then at the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne . He moved to London to pursue an education in drama at
121-681: Was followed by another collaboration in 2012, Sexual Chronicles of a French Family . In 1997, Barr appeared in The Scarlet Tunic , produced by Zigi Kamasa. He appeared as Hugo in The Red Siren in 2002 and played divorce lawyer Maître Bertram in the 2003 Merchant Ivory film le Divorce . He appeared as the titular character in the video for Blur 's 1996 single, " Charmless Man ". In 2010, he starred in Kim Nguyen 's film City of Shadows (La Cité) . Barr played author Jack Kerouac in
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