Raffaël Enault

Raffaël Enault
Enault in 2019
Born (1990-11-28) 28 November 1990 (age 34).[1]
Rouen, France
Occupation(s)Writer, film director, screenwriter
Websitehttps://raffaelenault.com

Raffaël Enault (born 28 November 1990) is a French film director, writer, and screenwriter. He is known for his contributions to literature and filmmaking, notably the book Dustan Superstar, which received widespread acclaim in the press,[2][3] and the film A Glimpse of Happiness, which premiered at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2021.[4]

Career

Raffaël Enault launched Roads Magazine in 2012, initially as a digital magazine, which later expanded to include a fashion line.[5][6][7]

In 2014, Enault was sued by Jean-Claude Martinez after an interview was published in Roads Magazine. The incident gained further attention when Martinez was later nominated for the Prix de l'Humour Politique in 2014, related to the content of the interview.[8][9][10][11][12]

Enault's debut book, "Dustan Superstar," the first biography of gay French writer Guillaume Dustan[13] , garnered significant press attention in France upon its release in 2018.[14][15][16][17][18]

In 2018, he became embroiled in a public dispute with French writer Marc-Édouard Nabe, who had published a series of defamatory articles about Enault.[19][20][21] Subsequently, Nabe was legally condemned for these actions.

In 2019, he organized the first university colloquium dedicated to Guillaume Dustan at Paris-Diderot University, entitled "J'ai toujours été pour tout être: Guillaume Dustan ou l'infini des possibles." This scholarly event brought together academics and intellectuals to discuss Dustan's contributions to literature and queer culture in depth.[22][23]

His inaugural film, A Glimpse of Happiness, which stars Caroline Loeb, premiered at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2021. The film received awards at various international film festivals[24][25] and was subsequently released on Amazon Prime and Tubi in 2023.[26][27]

In 2022, Enault directed a collective scholarly work titled "La peur : crise du siècle?", which delves into the concept of fear as a predominant crisis of the modern age.[28]

Selected works

Books

  • "Dustan Superstar" (2018) – Published in French by Éditions Robert Laffont. ISBN 2221193377.
  • "La peur : crise du siècle?" (2022) – Enault directed this collective scholarly book. Published in French by Éditions Camion Blanc. ISBN 9782378483050.[29]

Films

  • "A Glimpse of Happiness" (2021)

References

  1. ^ "Raffaël Enault". www.lacauselitteraire.fr.
  2. ^ "Sur les traces de Guillaume Dustan, "le dernier écrivain maudit"". Les Inrocks.
  3. ^ "Saint Dustan, comédien et martyr". Livres Hebdo.
  4. ^ "A Glimpse of Happiness » 30. Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg". www.filmfest-oldenburg.de.
  5. ^ "Raffael trace sa roads" (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  6. ^ "Roads, la jeune marque qui trace sûrement sa route" (in French). 23 October 2015. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  7. ^ "Roads magazine lance sa marque de fringues" (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  8. ^ "Christine Boutin rhabillée par l'un de ses alliés" (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  9. ^ "Un ancien prof de Marine Le Pen critique ses copies rédigées en phonétique" (in French). 22 May 2014. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  10. ^ "Marine Le Pen rendait ses copies en phonétique" (in French). 22 May 2014. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  11. ^ "C'était off : L'ex-FN Martinez tacle Marine Le Pen" (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  12. ^ "Prix Press Club, Humour et Politique 2014" (in French). 30 September 2014. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  13. ^ "Dustan Superstar – Raffael Enault" (in French). March 2021. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  14. ^ "Dustan Superstar, Raffaël Enault, par Arnaud Genon". www.lacauselitteraire.fr.
  15. ^ Liano, Thomas (2019). "Guillaume Dustan: The Uses of Celebrity". French Studies: A Quarterly Review. 73 (2): 323–324. doi:10.1093/fs/knz053.
  16. ^ "Livres en bref". Le Monde.fr. 29 March 2018.
  17. ^ Rémès, Eric. "DUSTAN SUPERSTAR : un extrait de la biographie de Raffaël Enault". Libération.
  18. ^ "La première biographie de Guillaume Dustan par un jeune auteur d'origine normande".
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  22. ^ "Journée d'étude Guillaume Dustan" (PDF). Paris-Diderot University. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  23. ^ "J'ai toujours été pour tout être: Guillaume Dustan ou l'infini des possibles". Paris-Diderot University. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  24. ^ "2021 AWARDS | The Seattle Film Festival". SeattleFilmFestival.
  25. ^ "2021 Edition | Firenze Film Festival". FirenzeFilmFestival.
  26. ^ "Prime Video: A Glimpse of Happiness". www.primevideo.com.
  27. ^ "A Glimpse of Happiness (2021)" – via tubitv.com.
  28. ^ "La peur: crise du siècle?". France Soir. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  29. ^ "La peur: crise du siècle?". Éditions Camion Blanc. Retrieved 2023-11-05.