FrameThrower · Actors · Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau
2 films · 128 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1992–2003
Born 2 November 1944 · Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, France · died 7 October 2013
Patrice Chéreau was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films La Reine Margot and Intimacy, and for his staging of the Jahrhundertring, the centenary Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 128 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1992–2003
- Silver Bear for Best Director2003
- Golden Bear2001
- César Award for Best Director1999
- César Award for Best Original Screenplay1984
- Officer of the National Order of Merit1994
- Europe Theatre Prize2008
- Molière du théâtre public2003
- Louis Delluc Prize2001
- Golden stars of French cinema1999
- Molière Award for Best Director1996
- Jury Prize1994
- Goethe Medal1993
How their films are shot
Measured across 128 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Patrice takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 47% natural — the look of the work Patrice takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 128 frames from Patrice Chéreau's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.