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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Patrice Leconte
		Patrice Leconte began making films in the mid- 1970s, but the last decade has proved to be his most prolific creative period.
		Patrice Leconte is especially intrigued by the role of music in films, both in his own and in others.
		Patrice Leconte's stylish and eccentric stories, filled with clues to the intricacies and complexities of social behavior and human interaction, are favorites of filmgoers around the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Patrice-Leconte (1159 words)

	Patrice Leconte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patrice Leconte (born November 12, 1947, in Paris, France) is a French film director and screenwriter.
		While attending film school in the late 1960s, Leconte also worked as cartoonist, in particular for the magazine Pilote.
		He directed his first feature film in 1976, and had a number of major successes with comedy films that were barely distributed outside France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrice_Leconte (231 words)

	Patrice Leconte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Patrice Leconte (born November 12, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Lhomme du train (the man on the train) 2003 is a british funded comic-drama movie, directed by patrice leconte, starring jean rochefort and johnny...
		The hairdressers husband is the english title for le mari de la coiffeuse, a 1990 french film written by patrice leconte and claude klotz,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/patrice_leconte.htm (564 words)

	Patrice Leconte - Wikipédia
		Patrice Leconte est un réalisateur, acteur, scénariste et bédéiste français
		Patrice Leconte commence à croire qu'il a fait fausse route dans le cinéma et accentue sa carrière publicitaire.
		Depuis, Leconte a installé son nom dans le cinéma français, rencontrant des fortunes diverses, se lançant à l'occasion dans une virulente diatribe contres les critiques de cinéma.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrice_Leconte (647 words)

	Patrice Leconte @ Filmbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Celebrated French film director Patrice Leconte weaves a love story from the cloth of a suspense thriller for his 20th feature film, perhaps his ultimate statement on the mysteries and intrigue of male-female relationships.
		Leconte's films are renowned for pushing the boundaries of genre and visual style while pondering the human condition.
		Leconte is particularly intrigued by the role of music in motion pictures - as evidenced by the way he weaves the scores for his films into the storytelling -- and contributed a preface to Jean-Pierre Eugene's book La Musique dans les films d'Alfred Hitchcock.
	www.filmbug.com /db/341917 (308 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Filmmakers on film: Patrice Leconte
		Patrice Leconte is the doyen of French feelgood cinema.
		Both Leconte and his films are as pungently French as a Gauloise, deliberately mundane in their settings and crammed with heartfelt salutes to French films of the 1930s and 1940s.
		Allen's rambling plot, a nostalgic remembrance of a Brooklyn childhood in the 1930s and 1940s that weaves between family tribulations and the big bands, the Masked Avenger cartoon character and Broadway stars heard on the radio, confused even American critics when it was released in 1987.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/12/28/bfmof28.xml (956 words)

	Patrice Leconte (1947 - )
		Patrice Leconte (born November 12, 1947) is a French film director and screenwriter.
		Adapting Georges Simenon's novel, Patrice Leconte emphasized the psychological drama rather than the detective story and created a film about loneliness and voyeurism; his cold precision is reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock or Fritz Lang.
		Patrice Leconte is one of France's most elegant contemporary directors - and that is considerable praise.
	www.jahsonic.com /PatriceLeconte.html (519 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Patrice Leconte : Biography
		French filmmaker Patrice Leconte is as notable for his refusal to be easily categorized as he is for his long and productive career.
		Leconte used the backdrop of a murder as a context for his examination and the result was a dark study in obsession, desire, and deviant sexuality.
		Leconte's next major project was 1993's Tango, a fl comedy about a man who thinks life would be a lot happier if he could just off his wife.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/87586/bio.jhtml (1093 words)

	Seattle International Film Festival \| Seattle International Film Festival
		As part of our tribute to Patrice Leconte, along with screening four of his classic films and the North American premiere of his latest, Intimate Strangers, we are pleased to present an in-depth discussion of his work and career, with clips, quips and questions from the audience.
		In 1999, Leconte gave us The Girl on the Bridge, a sensual, light-hearted affair, demonstrating once again that he is a director who is comfortable in any genre, regardless of the period, style or content.
		Leconte is able to take his pick of the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me of French actors; he has worked with artists from Jean-Paul Belmondo to Juliette Binoche, and has helped make stars of the likes of Michel Blanc and Jean Rochefort.
	www.seattlefilm.com /siff2004/film/detail.aspx?id=398 (344 words)

	A Trip Through Parallel Reality: Patrice Leconte's "Man on the Train"
		The man from the train appears in the town, seeming to have blown in with the early-evening breeze, as weathered as the leather jacket that flaps dutifully around his solid frame.
		Patrice Leconte's magnificent new film, "Man on the Train," imagines a chance meeting between these two men and how they might try on each other's lives for a while, the way one might slip into a borrowed jacket or wear-in a new pair of slippers.
		Which is to say nothing of Leconte's visual gifts -- he has a particular talent for shooting in widescreen -- or his indebtedness to a nearly bygone tradition of commercial genre films made with supreme personality and authority.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_030512man.html (991 words)

	Patrice Leconte Biography @ Filmbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Comedian Michel Blanc, with whom Leconte had already worked on five previous films, played the eccentric low-key tailor who is suspected of murder simply because he spends all his time watching his comely neighbor played by Sandrine Bonnaire.
		In 1990, Leconte directed The Hairdresser's Husband in which middle-aged actor Jean Rochefort's pleasure in being coiffed by an attractive young woman leads rather quickly to marriage.
		This was the first collaboration between Leconte and actor Daniel Auteuil who stars in Leconte's latest film, La Veuve de Saint Pierre, along with Juliette Binoche and director Emir Kusturica.
	www.filmbug.com /db/341917-9 (465 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Between action and the art house, he found his place
		Leconte is a rare breed of filmmaker, one who spent nearly 15 years as a director for hire, making mainstream films that were box-office successes.
		Leconte's next film was "Monsieur Hire," based on the 1946 French classic "Panique." The film starred Michel Blanc as a loner who's suspected of crime simply because people are uncomfortable around him.
		Leconte himself is not threatened by the younger generation of French filmmakers.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2004/08/15/between_action_and_the_art_house_he_found_his_place?pg=full (1267 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Feature :: Patrice Leconte :: You Gotta Sin To Get Saved (Page 1)
		Leconte felt that the relentless put-downs of French filmmaking by the nation’s own reviewers were endangering the future of the art.
		Leconte is not cantankerous or gruff, as so many directors can be when defending their passion.
		Leconte’s reputation as one of today’s most versatile directors has increased in recent years through projects like The Widow of St. Pierre—an ambitious and panoramic historical drama—and the exquisitely intimate, room-sized character study, Man on the Train.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=1011 (435 words)

	Intimate Strangers (2004) - About the Production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For Leconte, their friction-filled chemistry was key to creating what he hoped would be a sly, sensual mood full of uncertainty and the possibility for transformation.
		Leconte had, in fact, longed to work with Sandrine Bonnaire ever since their success with his earlier thriller, Monsieur Hire, in which she played a woman who is watched by a shy peeping tom, and thought of her immediately for Anna.
		Patrice Leconte chose to shoot Intimate Strangers entirely in sequence and almost entirely on a soundstage so as to build the film's psychological tension, moment-by-moment, revelation-by-revelation, as authentically as possible between his two main actors.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /intimate_strangers_about.htm (5356 words)

	Patrice Leconte
		Doch eines Tages sieht er zuviel 1990 folgte eine weitere sehenswerte Regiearbeit Lecontes: Der Erotikfilm "Der Mann der Friseuse" - einmal mehr mit Jean Rochefort in der Hauptrolle - wird zum Sommerhit in Frankreich und macht den Regisseur auch über die Landesgrenzen hinaus bekannt.
		Dagegen widmet sich Leconte in dem 1991 entstandenen Drama "Amnesty International - Schreiben gegen das Vergessen" mit 30 anderen prominenten Regisseuren wie Alain Resnais und Jean Luc Godard der Arbeit der weltgrößten Organisation zum Schutz der Menschenrechte.
		Mit der gelungenen Historienkomödie "Ridicule" tauchte Leconte 1996 in die vergangene Welt des französischen Spätabsolutismus in seiner letzten Phase ein, bevor er 1998 für seine charmante Komödie "Alle meine Väter" 30 Jahre nach "Borsalino" die beiden großen Stars des französischen Kinos - Jean-Paul Belmondo und Alain Delon - noch einmal zusammenbrachte.
	www.prisma-online.de /express/person.html?pid=patrice_leconte (487 words)

	Fiche personnalite - Allocine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sur sa lancée, Patrice Leconte co-écrit avec l'un des transfuges du Splendid, Michel Blanc, trois autres comédies populaires : Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine (1980), Ma femme s'appelle reviens (1982) et Circulez y'a rien à voir (1983).
		Patrice Leconte rebondit dès l'année suivante en dirigeant à deux reprises Daniel Auteuil dans La Fille sur le pont (1998), envoûtante et singulière invitation au voyage, et La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (1999).
		Tournant avec une régularité exemplaire, Patrice Leconte entame en 2004 un nouveau virage artistique avec le documentaire Dogora ouvrons les yeux, simplement porté par la musique symphonique d'Etienne Perruchon, avant d'effectuer un surprenant retour aux sources avec Les Bronzés 3 amis pour la vie (2005).
	www-org.allocine.fr /personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=1049.html (520 words)

	Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About "Intimate Strangers"
		Leconte's latest film "Intimate Strangers" is about a woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) who walks into the wrong office for her first appointment with a psychiatrist.
		Patrice Leconte: Yes and no. When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
		Leconte: I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_040730leconte.html (1576 words)

	Patrice Leconte
		Patrice Leconte's Monsieur Hire is a deeply affecting portrait of the dark side of obsession.
		Leconte uses extremely wide angles for his character close-ups.
		Patrice Leconte creates a visually intoxicating and highly sensual film on love, risk, and chance in The Girl on the Bridge.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/leconte.html (631 words)

	Film Ireland - Passionate
		Patrice Leconte was in Dublin recently to introduce L'Homme du train at the 2002 Dublin French Film Festival.
		When Patrice Leconte first became known to Irish cinema audiences with his Hitchcockian 1989 film M Hire, he had already been well-established in France for over ten years.
		Patrice Leconte: The film was created specifically for these two.
	www.filmireland.net /91/passionate.htm (1143 words)

	Comic creator: Patrice Leconte
		Patrice Leconte is mostly known for his filmmaking work.
		However, before turning to movies, Leconte created comics for the magazine Pilote.
		For his comic work, Leconte used a very personal style, with rigid characters, of which the most famous was 'André Nagul'.
	lambiek.net /artists/l/leconte_patrice.htm (105 words)

	Le Parfum d'Yvonne / The Scent of Yvonne / 1994 / film review / Patrice Leconte
		This is the kind of film which Patrice Leconte does best, and also the kind of film where he is rarely surpassed.
		Watching a Leconte love story is like watching a thriller - there is a terrible dread of the unexpected, a frisson of excitement at the unexpected plot developments, and then the sudden shock when the cruel denouement is suddenly unveiled.
		As ever, Leconte is well-served by his actors; his trio of leading performers could hardly have been bettered.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Le_Parfum_d_Yvonne_rev.html (505 words)

	Patrice LECONTE
		Patrice Leconte s'intÃ©resse Ã©galement Ã la bande dessinÃ©e et rencontre Marcel Gotlib et RenÃ© Goscinny, Ã qui il montre ses dessins.
		Patrice Leconte quitte temporairement le domaine de l'humour pour tourner, en 1984, Les SpÃ©cialistes, un film d'aventure avec GÃ©rard Lanvin et Bernard Giraudeau, commandÃ© par Christian Fechner, le producteur de ses cinq films prÃ©cÃ©dents.
		Depuis Tandem, Patrice Leconte assure lui-mÃªme le cadre de tous ses films parce que, dit-il, "la mise en page des images qui nous trottent dans la tÃªte, est un travail qui est indissociable de la mise en scÃ¨ne pure ou de la conception de la mise en scÃ¨ne".
	arsenick.no-ip.com /Fiche_Realisateur_292.htm (521 words)

	FREEDOM FLIES FOR FRENCH DIRECTOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Patrice Leconte's last visit to San Francisco was 30 years ago.
		Over coffee with Leconte recently, I told him it was a good thing he went then because several locales -- such as Ernie's and the florist shop and bookstore patronized by James Stewart and Kim Novak -- no longer exist.
		Leconte looked distressed, as if these places owed it to the movie to stay frozen in time.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/01/PKG647N7861.DTL (1250 words)

	Man On The Train (2002) - About the Production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leconte couldn’t think of two actors more contradictory in style and personality, and he loved the idea of watching honest emotions fly as they evolved from strangers to admirers to true friends not only on the screen but off it, as well.
		Despite the emphasis on such artistry, throughout production Leconte’s focus was on attaining the greatest simplicity he has ever attempted, on stripping away any extraneous details and getting directly to the heart of the story between these two men who unexpectedly see their most fleeting dreams in one another’s lives.
		Patrice Leconte is especially intrigued by the role of music in films, and contributed a preface to Jean-Pierre Eugene's book La Musique dans les films d'Alfred Hitchcock in which he wrote about the role of music in film.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /man_on_train_about.htm (4217 words)

	BERLIN REVIEW: Patrice Leconte's "Intimate Strangers," A Powerful, Emotional Journey Through the "Wrong" Door
		Patrice Lucchini captures this stunted fellow with remarkable pathos and humor.
		But at the final moments, it assumes a magisterial bird's eye view of the proceedings (which I won't be a spoiler and reveal), as if the director, too delicate to look on, were saying farewell to his creation, like the closing in a Mozart opera.
		And in a sense, "Intimate Strangers" is Patrice Leconte's farewell, as he stated in the press conference, to the intimate relationship-probing genre; he feels he's dug around in hearts and souls (it sounds better in French) as deeply as he can.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_040210ints.html (968 words)

	Patrice Leconte's strange, haunting Man on the Train. By David Edelstein
		Patrice Leconte's strange, haunting Man on the Train.
		My latest piece of evidence is Patrice Leconte's haunting tone poem Man on the Train (Paramount Classics), which is quintessentially (in places, ludicrously) French yet is suffused with a tender Yank envy.
		But Leconte redeems himself with a mystical denouement: a flight of empathy that ends the movie on a note of shimmering transcendence.
	www.slate.com /id/2083533/device/html40/workarea/3 (634 words)

	Eye - Perfect strangers - 05.15.03
		(Leconte used to write his own screenplays but says he became too "lazy" to do it all himself.) Leconte was delighted when Klotz came up with the idea of making the two characters yearn for the other's lifestyle.
		Leconte also claims he didn't realize he was making a Western until filming started.
		One of the few conscious decisions Leconte made during the writing process was to ask Klotz to give his characters a happy ending when he saw that the story was headed for the same tragic conclusion nearly all his films have.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.15.03/film/manonthetrain.html (722 words)

	Patrice Leconte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Otherwise, Leconte, who directed the thriller Monsieur Hire (1989) and the romance The Hairdresser's Husband (1990), takes an irreverent attitude toward Ridicule's setting: the court of Louis XVI at the end of the ancien régime.
		Despite the ornate verisimilitude of the film's Versailles locales and wigs and costumes, Leconte approached this social satire as if it were one of the contemporary comedies for which he is best known among French filmgoers.
		It would have been easy for Leconte to underline the parallel between the king's court, where wit is a weapon and humiliation results in a loss of power, and today's court of public opinion, where image also determines politics.
	bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/12-05-96/LECONTE.html (654 words)

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