Dimitri Rassam, the d’Artagnan of French cinema

2023-05-24 06:00:00

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PORTRAIT. “The obsession with trying to figure out the profitability of a film is absurd. » Meeting with the producer of the “Three Musketeers”.

By Olivier Ubertalli, special correspondent at Cannes

Associated since 2018 with the Mediawan group led by Pierre-Antoine Capton, the 41-year-old producer is the heir to a great French cinema dynasty.
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Published on 05/24/2023 at 08:00

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De beautiful blue eyes under a mane of brown hair, a well-trimmed goatee and a gray denim jacket… Dimitri Rassam might have been an actor, like his mother, Carole Bouquet. He chose to be a producer, like his father, Jean-Pierre Rassam, who hides behind the films of Maurice Pialat, Feast by Marco Ferreri, Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson and Tess by Roman Polanski.

Associated since 2018 with the Mediawan group led by Pierre-Antoine Capton, this 41-year-old producer is the heir to a great French cinema dynasty. Nephew of producer and distributor Paul Rassam (Apocalypse Now) and director and producer Claude Berri, he is also the cousin of producer Thomas Langmann (Asterix at the Olympics, The Artist, Stars 80…) and the godson of the filmmaker…

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