Jean-Louis Milesi

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Jean-Louis Milesi

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PRIZES : screenwriter

LUMIÈRES DE PARIS AWARD - best screenplay

PRIX HENRI JEANSON (SACD)

SAN SEBASTIAN: best screenplay - honorable Mention

MONS FILMS FESTIVAL: best screenplay

PRIX CHARLES SPAAK, Belgium

 

PRIZES : director

LUCHON / special mention of the jury

TOKYO / special prize of the jury

 

NOMINATIONS : screenwriter

CÉSAR / best screenplay

EUROPEAN FILM ARWARDS / best screenplay

AWARDED MOVIES

 

The snows of Kilimanjaro

  • Lumiere Awards (Paris): best screenplay
  • Luz Prize: Winner
  • Turia Awards: Best Foreign Film
  • Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Film
  • Étoiles d'Or (France): Best Female Newcomer / Anaïs Demoustier 
  • Cannes Films Festival: in competition
  • César Awards: Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
  • Globes de Cristal Awards, France: Nominated Best Actor / Jean-Pierre Darroussin 

Lino

  • Festival International D-Cinema, Japan : special Prize of the Jury.
  • Torino Film Festival : in competition
  • Cinemed, Montpellier : in competition
  • Festivals de Lunel, Colmar, Lyon, Albi...

Fragile

  • Luchon films Festival : special Mention of the Jury.
  • Luchon films Festival : best actor / Martin Lamotte.
  • Luchon films Festival : «Coup de Cœur» of the Jury / Alain Cauchi.
  • Luchon films Festival : promising young actor / Jean-Jérôme Esposito.

Lady Jane

  • Berlinale : in competition

Marie-Jo and her two lovers

  • Cannes Films Festival : in competition
  • César Awards : Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
  • European Film Arwards : Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride

The town is quiet

  • Mons films Festival : best screenplay
  • European Film Arwards : nomination best scriptwriter
  • European Film Arwards : Critics’ Prize
  • Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
  • Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Film

Where the heart is

  • San Sebastian films Festival : best screenplay - honorable Mention

Marius and Jeannette

  • Cannes Films Festival : in competition
  • Césars : Nomination best screenplay
  • César Awards : Best Actress to Ariane Ascaride
  • Prix Louis Delluc: Winner
  • Prix Henri Jeanson: Winner
  • Lumiere Awards (Paris) : best movie
  • Geneva International Film Festival : Grand Prix

À la vie, à la mort !

  • Namur International Festival: Best Film

L'argent fait le bonheur

  • Rencontres Européennes de Reims: Prix Michel Kûhn

Jean-Louis Milesi was born in Italy, came to France at 2 months old, to Paris at 27 years old, to California at 54.

Graduated from Kindergarden, he flees the university after a few weeks.

He does odd jobs that permit him to discover the heart of a nuclear power plant (just before the Province-Paris fission), also a desert region at the Iran-Iraq border (just before the bombs) and some heady vapors of wine tanks in Provence (just before drunkenness).

He goes to Paris to try film making and becomes a screenwriter without really wanting to, (he just wanted to write his own stories). The films that he writes for Robert Guédiguian are a national and international success (Marius and Jeannette, The town is quiet, Marie-Jo and her 2 lovers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro…).

He goes to California to write some projects. This quaking land shakes his neurons like a tree, some new ideas fall on the floor: his first american movie Don't Give Up The Ghost, and his first novel Les bottes de Clint Eastwood (Clint Eastswood's Boots).

Back in France, he works on the writing of several novels.

Josep, the animated film he wrote for Aurel, was selected at Cannes Film Festival 2020.

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Writer & director

 

2019 — RELEASE DVD BOX 3 SONS/3 MOVIES (DON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST, LINO, CAMILLE DES LILAS)

2012/16 — DON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST

2008 — LINO

2004 — CAMILLE (never released)

2002 — FRAGILE

2000 — NAG

1984-2010 — SEVERAL SHORT MOVIES

 

Scripts & dialogues

 

2014-18 — JOSEP an animation movie by Aurel (release in 2020)

2010 — THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO Robert Guédiguian

2008 — LADY JANE Robert Guédiguian

2007 — SEMPRE VIVU Robin Renucci

2005 — TALENTS CANNES 5 courts métrages

2003 — MON PÈRE EST INGÉNIEUR (My Father Is an Engineer) Robert Guédiguian

2002 — MARIE-JO ET SES 2 AMOURS (Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers) Robert Guédiguian

2001 — CHARMANT GARÇON Patrick Chesnais

2000 — LA VILLE EST TRANQUILLE (The Town Is Quiet), Robert Guédiguian

2000 — À L’ATTAQUE ! (Charge !) Robert Guédiguian

1998 — À LA PLACE DU CŒUR (Where the Heart Is) Robert Guédiguian

1997 — MARIUS ET JEANNETTE (Marius and Jeannette ) Robert Guédiguian

1995 — À LA VIE, À LA MORT ( 'Til Death Do Us Part) Robert Guédiguian

1992 — L’ARGENT FAIT LE BONHEUR Robert Guédiguian

 

Novels

2017 — LES BOTTES DE CLINT EASTWOOD (Clint Eastwood's boots) published by Les Éditions du Passage

 

Plays

2010 — VIVA ! lecture aux Actuelles, festival des écritures dramatiques, Strasbourg

2007-09 — À LA VIE ! mise en scène Pierre-Loup Rajot - Théâtre Mouffetard (Paris), Théâtre du Toursky, (Marseille) et TMR (Montreux, Suisse)

1995 — LA STRADA (adaptation du film de Fellini) mise en scène Yvan Garouel - Théâtre du Renard (Paris)

1984 — UNE PETITE DIFFICULTÉ UN PEU PLUS GRANDE QUE LE DOIGT (d’après Jacques le fataliste) mise en scène Jean-Louis Milesi - La tarasque (Avignon)

1981 — NÉANT CAGE mise en scène Jean-Louis Milesi - 1000 clubs (Bagnols sur cèze)

 

Actor

2013 — THE REFUGEES (By Clara Bijl), the baker

2012 — DON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST the father & the guard

2008 — LINO Tirelire (lead role)

2010 — DANS SA BULLE (by Pierre-Loup Rajot), the customer

1981 — NÉANT CAGE God

 

Miscellaneous

SONGWRITER for my movies and Robert Guédiguian’s movies.

SINGER of the song «Vieux Con» in CAMILLE DES LILAS, «Lunedi» in the short film LUNDI

EDITING : DON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST, LINO, CAMILLE DES LILAS, LES SURPRISES DE L’AMOUR (feature film by Caroline Chaumiène)

SOUND EDITING : LINO, CAMILLE DES LILAS, LES SURPRISES DE L’AMOUR, UN MÉDECIN DES LUMIÈRES (TV movie by René Allio, 3X90’)