Nicholas Lambert

Nicholas Lambert (born June, 16, 1970 in Saint-Émilion, France) was a french filmmaker best known for his realistic and documentary-esque style of filmmaking. In a 2001 interview, he mentioned that his favorite films growing up were "Bicycle Thieves", "The 400 Blows", and "The Seventh Samurai", the influence of which are prevalent in his body of work. Besides this, not much is known about his childhood. He went to La Femis, where he got his degree in film. Not much is knwon about his family, especially his father, but his mother, Agnés Lambert, expressed some distaste in his persuit of cinema, Lambert explained in an on the street interview in 1998. An only child, Lambert explained he had few friends while growing up, mostly sticking to himself and his film camera, which his unnamed father gifted him when he was 12.

Not much is known about Lambert's debut film "Pedicabo Ego Lactaverunt Me Libris" which he made while in school at La Femis. An anonymous professor noted that Lambert expressed considerable talent from his first film that he developed later in his career. His first and second feature films, Vie (1995) and Les pècheurs de la cascades des marronniers (1996), which Lambert stated are a duology meant to be watched in succession. Vie (1995) tells the tale of Paradise Lost through the eyes of a dying, aged, homeless woman in the hillsides of rural france. She talks about mortality and her desire to find the shawl her dead son was wrapped in when he was born that was lost to her in a mugging when she was 30. The film recieved critical acclaim when it released in a small local film festival. Critics called the film "an innovation in modern arthouse cinema" and "breathtaking". Lambert claimes his father was floored by the film and quoted "That was the best film I have ever seen Nicholas".

His thesis short, "Pedicabo Ego Et Lactaverunt Me Libris", was only screened once. It is now considered lost media. His next film was a documentary, translated in english as "Those Who Only Have A Dollar", follows Lambert as he travels across the French Countryside, documenting the poverty that they face.

Following this, he made his feature film début, "Lea Reve De Mort", followed by his second film "Les Gens Qui Font Des Meutre". After these two films, he announced that he had started work on a surrealist horror film set in Nazi-Occupied France. He never completed it, however, as 2 days after filming started, he tragically died on July, 14, 2005 in a car crash. ×

References

https://letterboxd.com/director/nicholas-lambert-la-femis/

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