For the best part of twenty years, Stéphane Batut has assembled the casts of movies, combining two passions—for new encounters and actors, professional or otherwise - on behalf of filmmakers with a wide range of backgrounds and worlds: Mathieu Amalric, Sharunas Bartas, Xavier Beauvois, Serge Bozon, Thomas Cailley, Laurent Cantet, Claire Denis, Arnaud Desplechin, Nicole Garcia, Alain Guiraudie, Cédric Kahn, the Larrieu brothers, Noémie Lvovsky, Jean-Marc Moutout, Jacques Nolot, Bruno Podalydès, Axelle Ropert, Riad Sattouf, Claire Simon, Joann Sfar, Frédéric Videau, Nadav Lapid, Paul Verhoeven, and more besides.
Four years studying film at Paris University VIII under the benevolent and alert eye of Jean-Henri Roger and the steely gaze of Philippe Arnaud were a perfect opportunity to make shorts but, curiously enough for someone who has encountered so many actors, fifteen years later, Stéphane’s first films were documentaries (Le Chœur in 2007, Le Rappel des oiseaux in 2014). Most likely because he learned « from watching directors at work that fiction and documentary feed off each other. » Stephane’s aim is « to capture the fable, the myth of a chance encounter on the street, like in literature, discovering freedom and the unpredictability of the world. »
Les Films du Losange
