Lucas Belvaux

Born in 1961 in Namur, Bel­gium, he spent his child­hood in the coun­try­side before mov­ing to Paris to become an actor. After tak­ing few dra­ma class­es, he was cast on Yves Boisset’s Allon­s’z enfants (1981). Ten years lat­er, he direct­ed his first fea­ture film, Some­times Too Much Love. He gained recog­ni­tion as a film­mak­er in 1996 with his sec­ond film Just for Laughs! In 2010, he was a mem­ber of the jury of the 36^th Deauville Amer­i­can Film Festival.