Éric Génovèse

Éric Génovèse

Born: August 12, 1967
in Nice, France
Eric Génovèse graduated from the Paris National Conservatory for Drama. He simultaneously leads three different careers, as an actor in theatre, as a narrator in musical pieces, and as a stage director both for theatre and opera.

  Eric Génovèse did his first theatre staging in 2001 at Le Théâtre du Marais, Les Juives by Robert Garnier. He staged Le Privilège des Chemins by Fernando Pessoa at la Comédie-Française (in collaboration with the IRCAM). In 2012 he staged Erzulie Dahomey by Jean-René Lemoine. On the operatic field, he first staged Rigoletto at the Bordeaux Opera in 2007 where he was invited back to stage Die Schule der Frauen by Rolph Liebermann. He staged Cosí fan Tutte at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris (revival in 2012), and made his debut at the Vienna State Opera with Donizetti’s Anna Bolena (Netrebko, Garanca, D’Arcangelo, conducted by Evelino Pidò – DVD).   Eric Génovèse was made Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.

Movies for Éric Génovèse...

Corpus Delicti
Title: Corpus Delicti
Released: November 19, 2023
Type: Movie
"Corpus delicti": object that materially proves the existence of a criminal offense, a crime. Filmmaker Léolo reverses the perspective and asks in this docufiction what society does with the bodies of those who break the rules and resist power. The film successively gives a voice to the mutilated victims of police brutality and to a young fictional gay activist, carried by both his love and his devotion, but crushed by the legal system and prison. The film asks essential and necessary questions about the difficult intersection of art and politics, expression and action, justice and violence.
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Le Roi Lear (Comédie-Française)
Title: Le Roi Lear (Comédie-Française)
Character: Gloucester
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
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The Man in the Basement
Title: The Man in the Basement
Character: Monsieur Martini
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple tries desperately to cancel the sale but to no avail. Worse, Mr. Fonzic becomes a threat to their family as he befriends their teenage daughter on whom he seems to exert a perverted influence.
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Guermantes
Title: Guermantes
Character: Eric
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Paris, sum­mer 2020. Actors from “la Comédie-Française”, France’s most pres­ti­gious the­ater, rehearse Christophe Hon­oré’s new play, an adap­ta­tion of Mar­cel Proust’s “The Guer­mantes Way”. When the show is sud­den­ly can­celed, the dra­ma group decides to go ahead with it any­way, in the name of art and for the joy of act­ing together.
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Dangerous Liaisons: A Feminist Manifesto?
Title: Dangerous Liaisons: A Feminist Manifesto?
Character: Valmont
Released: September 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Well known for its exploration of seduction and revenge, the “Dangerous Liaisons” by Choderlos de Laclos caused a scandal from its first publication in 1782. Despite – or because of the scandal – the book was a top-seller. Since then, it stood the test of time. Combining eras, continents and people, the novel is adapted around the world. Marvelous tool for reflection on the female condition, social satire announcing the Revolution, remarkable work on the conflicting nature of love but also of the gender war, consecration of the power of the words, a libertine manual… “Dangerous Liaisons” is all of these at once.
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Électre / Oreste
Title: Électre / Oreste
Character: Esclave phrygien
Released: May 23, 2019
Type: Movie
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The Collection
Title: The Collection
Character: Victor Gence
Released: October 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish collectors. Informed by a concierge, he manages to enter the apartment of Mr. Klein who apparently has a fabulous collection.
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Le Misanthrope
Title: Le Misanthrope
Character: Philinte
Released: February 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Alceste loves Célimène, a flirtatious woman from the Parisian high society. He loathes this world for its hypocritical etiquette but, shaken by a public trial he is called to by this social circle, he must visit Célimène to ask for her help…
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Le chien, le chat et le cibachrome
Title: Le chien, le chat et le cibachrome
Released: February 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Samuel goes to Nice to pass the exam of the School of Fine Arts. He is accompanied by Nordine, uncultivated in art who takes some holidays.