Reda Kateb, guest of honor at the next Montpellier Mediterranean Cinema Festival!
|Le comédien Reda Kateb viendra présenter son premier long métrage en tant que réalisateur ! Yann Rabanier
The 46th edition of the Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival (Cinemed), which will take place from October 18 to 26, 2024, is starting to make headlines. And it is doing so in the most beautiful way: the revelation of Reda Kateb, the immense actor revealed by A Prophet, as guest of honor!
He is considered the most elegant, the most thoroughbred French actor of the present time. Discovered on the big screen in A Prophet by Jacques Audiard in 2009, and awarded a César for Hippocrate by Thomas Litli in 2015, Reda Kateb will be the guest of honor at the 46th edition of the International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema (Cinemed) which will take place from October 18 to 26, 2024 in Montpellier.
"He’is a particularly endearing actor with discreet charm ; a deep and soft voice, recognizable among all; a thin, elegant mustache à la Clark Gable; a presence which imposes itself with naturalness and subtlety in French and international cinema", put forward the organizers of Cinemed to justify their choice to invite him to look back on his impressive career as a film director. rsquo;actor and premiere his very first feature film as director, On a Wire.
Very early taste for words
Born on January 15, 1977 in Ivry to a mother of Czech and Italian origin and an Algerian father, the actor Malek Kateb, he developed a taste for words with his great-uncle, the man of letters Kateb Yacine. Very quickly, he took to the stage and played classics and contemporary pieces without distinction. After a stint in the series Engrenages in 2008, Jacques Audiard noticed him and therefore hired him for his prison masterpiece which would turn his life upside down at the same time as that of another gifted beginner like him Tahar Rahim.
Hollywood quickly took an interest in him: Kathryn Bigelow directed him in Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and Ryan Gosling in Lost River (2015). But it is in French cinema that he most fully deploys his incredible range of acting and his cinegenic aura. His filmography already includes 46 mentions in sixteen years! In 2015, he won the César for best supporting actor for Hippocrate by Thomas Litli. But we must also mention among his notable roles Django by Etienne Comar in 2017, Hors norms by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano or, last year, Omar the strawberry by Elias Belkeddar.
A penchant for clowns
He also shone on television in the series Possessions, in which he plays a diplomat who falls under the spell of a young woman accused of having killed her husband, and in In therapy, where he plays a BRI agent traumatized by his intervention at the Bataclan.
In 2015, Reda Kated directed her first short film Pitchoune featuring clowns (Philippe Rebbot and him -even), figures that we will find at the heart of his first creation. On a thread in fact tells the story of Jo, a young woman, street circus artist (played by Aloïse Sauvage), who discovers the work of the professional clowns of "Nez pour Rire" and plunges quickly, perhaps too quickly, into the action. "A generous, sensitive and sincere film, in its image", promises Cinemed. We can't wait!
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