Romain Goupil

Romain Goupil

Born: July 12, 1951
in Paris, France
Politically committed to the left, Romain Goupil, born in 1951, is the most eloquent representative of the spirit of the revolution of May 1968. From his first feature in 1982, Mourir à 30 ans (1982) to his latest to date Les mains en l' air (2010), he has managed to remain faithful to his ideals, quite a feat if you think of all of his fellow revolutionaries who have changed sides, lured by money and/or power. His films, whether documentaries or fiction, have failed -with one or two exceptions - to draw large audience but they will remain a mirror of a whole generation.

Movies for Romain Goupil...

Godard Cinema
Title: Godard Cinema
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.
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10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir
Title: 10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: C ce soir, le débat
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 25, 2021
Type: TV
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On the Road in France
Title: On the Road in France
Character: Self
Released: May 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Fifty years after the events of May 68, Dany Cohn-Bendit and Romain Goupil have decided to start a journey across France. In this "road movie" they explore the territories - at times bewildering - of the Republic. Observing, listening, debating, discovering the state of the country. Its crises and its hopes. Its ordinary heroes, its gravediggers, its innovators...ON THE ROAD IN FRANCE or the tour and detours in France of two old children of 68.
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Godard Mon Amour
Title: Godard Mon Amour
Character: Cinephile
Released: June 24, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
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Les Jours venus
Title: Les Jours venus
Character: Romain
Released: February 4, 2015
Type: Movie
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His Mother's Eyes
Title: His Mother's Eyes
Character: Olivier
Released: March 23, 2011
Type: Movie
A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. Meanwhile, in Brittany, twenty-year-old Bruno, who lives with his parents, doesn't yet know the consequences that this story will have on his existence...
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Hands in the Air
Title: Hands in the Air
Character: Luc
Released: July 6, 2010
Type: Movie
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
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Rien dans les poches
Title: Rien dans les poches
Character: Daniel Manikowski
Released: December 14, 2008
Type: Movie
25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a teenage girl, Esther, who flees as she fled her mother.
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A Christmas Tale
Title: A Christmas Tale
Character: Analyst's Friend
Released: May 16, 2008
Type: Movie
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
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Gustave Courbet, the Origins of His World
Title: Gustave Courbet, the Origins of His World
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Gustave Courbet defied the conventions of classical French painting to become an innovator of Realism. This documentary by filmmaker Romain Goupil explores Courbet's life and work, revealing the fiery spirit that drove him to lead rather than follow.
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Mon homme
Title: Mon homme
Character: L'homme
Released: October 12, 2004
Type: Movie
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Purely Coincidental
Title: Purely Coincidental
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. This is not entirely correct, because they are friends, anyway, and always have been. They play cards together and go to each others’ birthday parties, have wives and children and probably mortgages. Romain Goupil’s film appears to be a throwback to the experimental days of cinema verite. Either that or it’s a home movie, shot with a video camera, to an improvised script or no script at all.
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Fat Girl
Title: Fat Girl
Character: Francois
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
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René Vautier, le rebelle
Title: René Vautier, le rebelle
Character: Self
Released: April 29, 2000
Type: Movie
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À mort la mort !
Title: À mort la mort !
Character: Thomas
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
The idea for this film about a generation and its lost ideals came to Romain Goupil after attending several funerals of friends in the fall of 1996, where the '68 generation, now in influential positions in media or politics, kept meeting each other. It seemed as if the revolution that they had tried to make was being buried with each coffin. A MORT LA MORT is in some ways an homage to this generation, now in their fifties. They were a privileged generation that thought that they could change the world, doing everything that their parents failed to do. There were no actual deaths in France as there were in Germany or Italy, but the system was not ideal for personal issues or for love. There was always a scapegoat for the injustices of the world, be it capitalism or imperialism. That way the blame could be placed somewhere else. Some of the '68 generation are still faithful to the principles of their youth and still continue to fight for the illusions of the past.
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Venus Beauty Institute
Title: Venus Beauty Institute
Character: Le médecin
Released: February 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
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A Letter to L...
Title: A Letter to L...
Character: Lui (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1994
Type: Movie
She was 18. They were in love and lived together for ten years. 20 years later, he receives a letter from her. L is very ill. He grabs hold of his camera and films while trying to make her talk about other things, about cinema and what’s become of those political struggles…
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Half a Life
Title: Half a Life
Character: Self
Released: June 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both before and after the disturbances. He was imprisoned for a short while in 1973. Disillusioned after the failure of the demonstrations and the death of the only woman he had loved, his life seems to have changed from a period of hope and activism to one of bottomless despair. His friend, Romain Goupil wrote and directed this biographical documentary. Death at 30 received the 1982 Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera Award for "Best First Feature-Length Film."
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Room 666
Title: Room 666
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 1982
Type: Movie
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"
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Marguerite Duras and the '68ers
Title: Marguerite Duras and the '68ers
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Here Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her questions precede footage of her main subject, the sixteen-year-old Romain Goupil, recently excluded from the lycée, among his peers and fellow student revolutonaries. After we see them discuss the complexities of their position and deal with internal dissent, Duras asks Romain if he ever forgets how young he is. Romain replies with a grin: “Totally.”
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Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
Title: Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Leroi, Jean-Michel Barjol, Romain Goupil, Luc Moullet) are talking about their problems in producing less expensive and more free films in the french industry of cinema of the 60's.
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV