Pascal Cervo (born 16 July 1977) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor.[1]

Pascal Cervo
Pascal Cervo in November 2017
Born (1977-07-16) 16 July 1977 (age 46)
Occupation(s)Actor, director, screenwriter
Years active1993–present

Life and career edit

Pascal Cervo grew up in Soisy-sur-Seine, Essonne, France.

He was discovered at the age of 16 while shopping in Paris by Catherine Corsini for her film Les Amoureux (with Nathalie Richard), where he played Marc, a teenager who began to realize his homosexuality. He then played in À toute vitesse (Full Speed), a film by young Gaël Morel where he was Quentin, a writer that everyone falls in love with. Pascal Cervo pursues a career of strong loyalty, working with art filmmakers such as Gaël Morel, Laurent Achard, Paul Vecchiali (of whom Cervo is one of his favorite and recurring actors), Pierre Léon, etc. He also worked with Jean-Claude Biette and Robert Guédiguian and played in TV series and in theatre.

He directed three short films, the first in 2008 Valérie n'est plus ici (Valérie is not here anymore), then Monsieur Lapin (Mister Rabbit) - a reflection on loneliness - in 2013 and Hugues in 2017 which won the short film prize of festival of Pantin.[2]

Pascal Cervo replies to Catherine Deneuve in Le Cancre (2016). He was recently praised for his first role in Jours de France (Four Days in France[3]) in 2017, where he interprets Pierre who after leaving his companion Paul (Arthur Igual) travels France randomly and meets unknown people using Grindr.

Filmography edit

As actor edit

As actor in short films edit

  • 1998 : Coup de lune by Emmanuel Hamon
  • 1999 : Apesanteurs by Valérie Gaudissart
  • 2001 : Verte by Christophe Monier
  • 2006 : Histoire naturelle by Ysé Tran
  • 2008 : Prendre l'air by Nicolas Leclère (issued in 2014)
  • 2008 : Sans Howard by Ricardo Munoz - François
  • 2009 : Regarder Oana by Sébastien Laudenbach
  • 2009 : French Courvoisier by Valérie Mréjen
  • 2013 : Malfaisant by Alexia Walther and Maxime Matray
  • 2013 : Le Tableau by Laurent Achard - Loïc
  • 2014 : Just Married by Paul Vecchiali
  • 2014 : La Cérémonie by Paul Vecchiali
  • 2016 : Enfant chéri by Valérie Mréjen and Bertrand Schefer - Axel[6]
  • 2017 : Dernières nouvelles du monde by François Prodromidès - the messenger

As filmmaker edit

  • 2009 : Valérie n'est plus ici - short film
  • 2013 : Monsieur Lapin - short film[7]
  • 2017: Hugues - short film[8] · [9]

References edit

  1. ^ "Pascal Cervol - IMDb". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  2. ^ Côté Court Film Festival 2017
  3. ^ Four Days in France IMDb
  4. ^ Deux Rémi, deux IMDb
  5. ^ Drôle d'oiseaux IMDb
  6. ^ vodkaster.com : Enfant chéri
  7. ^ Interview with Pascal Cervo (YouTube), September 5, 2014
  8. ^ Film presentation at festival du cinéma in Brive, June 2017, Daily Motion
  9. ^ Storyline

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