François Bégaudeau

Writing

François Bégaudeau

Born

1971-04-27 (55)

Place of birth

Luçon, Vendée, France

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

François Bégaudeau (born 27 April 1971) is a French writer, journalist, and actor. He is best known for co-writing and starring in Entre les murs (2008), a film based on his 2006 novel of the same name. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. He was born in Luçon, Vendée, France and was a member of the 1990s punk rock group Zabriskie Point. After receiving his degree in Literature, he taught high school in Dreux and in an inner city middle school in Paris. Bégaudeau published his first novel, Jouer juste in 2003. In 2005, he published Dans la diagonale and Un démocrate, Mick Jagger 1960-19…

Known for

Clique poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Clique

2013

Salut les Terriens ! poster
3.7

Salut les Terriens! is a French talk show hosted by Thierry Ardisson, launched on Canal+ on November 4, 2006, and then moved to C8 on September 10, 2016. The show subsequently changed its name and format in 2018 to become Les Terriens du Samedi! (The Earthlings of Saturday!). Initially conceived as a humorous take on current events with several guests and various games and segments, it later evolved into a more structured format with panel discussions and regular segments. In 2018, Thierry Ardisson sought to revamp the concept, believing the previous version had run its course, hence the transition to Les Terriens du samedi! with a new set and new segments, and a 360-degree turn in the ideology of the guests.

Salut les Terriens !

2006

The Class poster
7.0

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

The Class

2008

Diamant Palace poster
NR

In an abandoned hotel, a pirate radio host, artists, scientists, activists, and farmers are reinventing the world.

Diamant Palace

2022

Visiting Hours poster
5.8

Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship begins...

Visiting Hours

2024

Un homme d'État poster
4.0

Just a few weeks before elections, the outgoing President of Republic, Jean François Vanier (Patrick Braoudé), is at the lowest in the polls, leader of the most powerful right wing party he is trying to find a mainstay.

Un homme d'État

2016

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Class poster
7.0

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

The Class

2008

Visiting Hours poster
5.8

Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship begins...

Visiting Hours

2024

Max & Lenny poster
5.2

Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.

Max & Lenny

2015

Ne soyez pas vous-même poster
NR

A portrait of the Larrieu brothers at work shot during the post-production of their film Tralala.

Ne soyez pas vous-même

2023

Ne soyez pas vous-même poster
NR

A portrait of the Larrieu brothers at work shot during the post-production of their film Tralala.

Ne soyez pas vous-même

2023

Love Is Dead poster
5.4

Mathias Lonisse, founder of the company Love is Dead, is a breakup specialist. He is hired to break up relationships on behalf of those who, for one reason or another, prefer to avoid this often painful and delicate task. Mathias takes his job very seriously and carries out each assignment with a high degree of professionalism, until the day his mother decides to leave his father...

Love Is Dead

2016

Autonomes poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Autonomes

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Passage du Singe

2026

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bandit Rouge

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N'importe qui poster
NR

"N'importe qui" is a documentary, shot in Mayenne in the fall of 2015. It talks about everything and anything. We see a donkey, two sheeps. We see lots of goats there, including François, whom we know in Laval under the name of "The bald one". François goes from house to house to question people about democracy. Dialogues are formed, sometimes unraveled. We still wonder.

N'importe qui

2017