Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

642 • LIME, JEAN-HUGUES
Filmography
1990 Il n’y a guère que les Actions qui montent ces
Temps-ci (short; also screenwriter)
1993 De zevende hemel / Le Septième Ciel (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist; Belgium)
1996 XY (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1997 Quatre Garçons pleins d’Avenir (also co-dialogist)
2001 HS—Hors Service (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
Television Filmography
2002 Qui mange quoi? (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2004 Qui mange quand?
2005 Comme sur des Roulettes / Sobre rodes (France
/ Spain)
LIME, JEAN-HUGUES (December 28, 1958,
Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France–)
A comedy actor, he wrote and performed one-man
shows and played in a few fi lms (1983 Le Marginal,
Jacques Deray; 1984 Adam et Eve, also co-dialogist;
1986 L’Exécutrice, Michel Caputo; Paulette, la pauvre
petite Milliardaire, Claude Confortès; Le Bonheur a
encore frappé, Jean-Luc Trotignon; 1989 Champagne
et petits Fours, short, Eric Bitoun; 1990 Un Sale Quart
d’Heure pour l’Art, short, Eric Bitoun; 1993 Une Journée
chez ma Mère, Dominique Cheminal) and TV movies
(1991 Jeux de Vilains, Charles L. Bitsch; 1992 Les
Taupes-Niveaux, Jean-Luc Trotignon). He authored a
play (2001 Le Repas des Manchots) and several novels
(1998 La Fête des Nerfs, Editions Florent Massot; 1999
On dirait des Nains, Editions Alive; 2000 Le Journal
authentique d’un Assassin, Editions Castor Astral; 2001
Gourouland, Nouvelles Editions C.O.L. Florent Massot;
2002 Le Roi de Clipperton, Le Cherche-Midi; 2004 La
Chasse aux Enfants, Editions du Cherche-Midi; 2007
Mangareva, Editions du Cherche-Midi).
Filmography
1981 Le Potier (short; co-director with Yves Benoît;
also actor)
1982 Il manqué l’Impasse (short; Yves Benoît)
1984 Le Séducteur (short; co-director with Yves
Benoît; also actor)
Le Potier (short; co-director with Yves Benoît;
also actor)
1985 S.O.S. Chômeurs (short; co-director; with Yves
Benoît; also actor)
1986 Vélodrame (short; co-director with Yves
Benoît)
1987 La Bête noire (short; co-director with Yves
Benoît)
1994 Tête à Tête (co-director with Yves Benoît; also
screenwriter, dialogist)
2007 Changement de Propriétaire (short; also screenwriter,
producer, cinematographer, actor)
LIMOSIN, JEAN-PIERRE (July 4, 1949, Chaumontel,
Val d’Oise, France–)
He managed a photo and video workshop at the
Centre Educatif Culturel de Yerres, Essonne, where
he met Alain Bergala, a fi lm critic of Les Cahiers du
Cinéma with whom he co-directed his fi rst feature.
Filmography
1983 Faux fuyants / US video: Subterfuge (co-director
with Alain Bergala; also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1986 Gardien de la Nuit / US video: Guardian of the
Night (also co-screenwriter)
1988 L’Autre Nuit (also co-screenwriter, actor)
1998 Tokyo Eyes (also co-screenwriter; Japan /
France)
2002 Novo (also co-screenwriter; France / Spain /
Switzerland)
2007 Young Yakuza (documentary; also screenwriter;
France / USA)
Television Filmography
1994 Cinéma de notre Temps: Abbas Kiarostami, Vérités
et Songes (documentary; also screenwriter)
1996 Cinéma de notre Temps: Alain Cavalier, Sept
Chapitres, Cinq Jours, 2 Pièces-Cuisine (documentary)
1999 Cinéma de notre Temps: Takeshi Kitano,
l’Imprévisible (documentary; also screenwriter)
2005 Carmen (also co-screenwriter)
LIMUR, JEAN DE (Jean-François-Marie Chenu de
Limur / November 13, 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime,
France–June 5, 1976, Paris, France)
An authentic count, he owed his Hollywood acting
career to his fencing skills. In 1922, Max Linder hired
him to play in his parody of The Three Musketeers (The
Three Must-Get-Theres). Seen in a few fi lms (1922 The
Worldly Madonna, Harry Garson; Trifl ing Women, Rex