Eric Barbier Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Director , Screenwriter , Adapter more
Nationality French
Birth 1960

BIOGRAPHY
Eric Barbier joined Idhec in 1979, the opportunity for him to make a handful of short films and to get to know Eric Rochant and Arnaud Desplechin . In 1985, he directed the pre-film of Le Brasier , a very expensive project which did not materialize until 1991. The young filmmaker demonstrated a rare ambition in French cinema, since this first feature film was a historical fresco on the world of miners in France in the 1930s, with Jean-Marc Barr as the son of Polish immigrants in love with Maruschka Detmers . Jean-Vigo Prize in 1991, the film was a bitter commercial failure which permanently distanced Barbier from film sets. In 1993, he signed the TV film Un air de liberté for Arte as part of the Les Années lycée collection .

In 1999, he signed his second feature film, Toreros , immersed in the world of bullfighting coupled with the study of a father-son relationship, with Olivier Martinez and Claude Brasseur . Seven years later, Eric Barbier confirms his taste for darkness with the thriller The Serpent , the adaptation of a novel by the British Ted Lewis , around a diabolical plot hatched by Clovis Cornillac against Yvan Attal .

In 2014, the director reunited with Attal for the heist film Le Dernier Diamant , which went relatively unnoticed. Three years later, he returned with The Promise of Dawn , adapted from the autobiographical initiatory adventure novel of the same name by Romain Gary . This ambitious feature film is led by Pierre Niney in the writer’s shoes.