french november october french opera theatre director filmmaker actor producer france best known work theatre internationally films intimacy staging centenary ring cycle festival winner movie awards including cannes jury prize golden berlin bear served president jury cannes festival artistic director suburb team stage designer costume designer lighting designer collaborated later productions director stage staged plays shakespeare works accepted selected opera productions performance act version completed berlin wagner und shown festivals staging performed festival july awarded career born maine father painter mother graphic designer attended school paris early taken interested arts cinema theatre music age designed stage sets plays known critics director actor stage manager high school theatre enthusiastically celebrated theatre age began directing professional theatre studying professionally staged victor hugo intervention subsequently dropped university appointed artistic director suburb theatre municipal presenting theatre cinema concerts poetry productions lectures debates politics pot theatrical team included costume designer stage designer lighting designer collaborated later productions directed soldiers festival youth theatre nancy staged opera production team following year established close artistic relationship leadership milan staged revolutionary death directed shakespeare france staging les showed sung sensitive poet love reach drunken loser worked germany time directing set industrial landscape piles baron krupp evening dress hat commented production people feed hope feed despair spur action directorial debut film thriller based novel flesh sequel miss film assembled cast including miss role giving performance extraordinary intensity version misunderstood british film staged wagner des festival celebrate festival centenary termed production celebrating years wagner work performed time cycle festival known centenary ring collaborated conductor recommended festival direction french team understanding wagner germany music critic wrote obituary set scene time composition critical view time capitalism spiritual background pointed staging left standard productions ring cycle follow mentioned obituary unity direction scene light new suggested critical view capitalism heading broken leg acted role stage sang wings ring production filmed television initially provoked controversy celebrated final performance minute standing ovation disliked grand opera said felt need work theatrical project breadth little things interested rise considered directed paris aiming theatrical experience global spectacle paris directed performance act version completed february conducted sets singing title role scene set time composition observes frequent topics hunt love colder death und und der powerful newspaper manager reminiscent supporters hitler director stage staged plays including des directed shakespeare hamlet works staged staged directed des shown staged jon vent english version wind films directed film wounded man personal project writer worked years scenario tells love affair older man involved prostitution teenage boy dark view context hiv aids film based historical novel won jury prize best actress award cannes set 16th century depicting conflict catholics france shows battles day massacre scene queen head lover reminiscent opera uniting cult obsession von und obsession remarks film longest expensive production greatest financial success erotic violent offers poured hollywood said offered films based renaissance involving massacre offer film refused similar offers useless repeat opera internationally staging shown conducted title role marie filmed review notes presentation smallest roles deeply considered characters staging shown festival directed film love train melodramatic sentimental characters way funeral bisexual minor painter final scene reflects cemetery music tenth symphony english language film intimacy based short stories wrote novel title played english actors including deals musician london regularly meets woman sexual encounters tale sexual obsession sparked debate sex screen said like film erotic beautiful life directed brother son centred relationship estranged brothers gay straight come suffers potentially fatal blood disease hospital processes shot makes meditation mortality moving notes similarity scene shaved futile surgery lies table similar dead christ served cannes president jury staging fan shown staged wagner und conducted stayed away opera regarded predominantly musical theatrical work subtle direction vulnerable intensely moving directed conducted shown vienna festival later holland festival festival debut film episodic film man haunted love hate relationship girlfriend production conducted shown festival july scheduled met season review noted clichés fascist brutality avoided situation involves human beings visually neutral environment bare walls windows doors designed atmosphere life death long term relationship lover favorite actor interested gay topics saying wanted gay stories gay newspapers criticised love stories exactly game desire live desire died paris october lung cancer years old europe theatre prize awarded europe theatre prize edition prize reason award noted natural born artist clear calling rare examples person manages succeed expressive arts actor support team creative collaborators including great set designer costume designer lighting designer drawn analysis correct discovered revived number little known texts thanks languages mastered extraordinary critical interpretation broke playwright sunny surface reveal forward looking harsh social critic shifted theatre opera reached height career years des developed new model expression discovered launched great time major works directed including des shakespeare historic revival les eventually turned cinema found expressive truth life values filmography director producer company actor film 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