Olivier Assayas

Known for DirectingBorn 1955-01-25 (age 71)Paris, France

Olivier Assayas (French: [ɔlivje asajas]; born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his eclectic filmography, consisting of slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs, and comedies. He has directed French, Spanish, and English-language films with international casts. The son of filmmaker Jacques Rémy, Assayas began his career as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. There he wrote about world cinema and its film auteurs, who later influenced his work. Assayas made several short films, and made his feature debut with Disorder in 1986. He continued directing feature films, with Cold Water (1994) considered a breakthrough film in his career. It was his first film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. His followup film, Irma Vep (1996), also screened at Cannes, while Sentimental Destinies (2000), Demonlover (2002), and Clean (2004) all officially competed for the Palme d'Or. In 2006, he contributed a short film to the anthology film Paris, je t'aime (2006). Assayas gained acclaim for his dramas Summer Hours (2008), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), and Personal Shopper (2016); the latter won him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He also directed the comedy Non-Fiction (2018) and the spy thriller Wasp Network (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivier Assayas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

Léaud l'unique

Nuit féline

Broken April

Aware, Anywhere

Being Bo Widerberg

Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture

Carlos

The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

Carlos

Making of 'Demonlover'

Lovely Child

The Emma Bovary Trial

L'unique

Secret Passage

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Paris Je T'aime

Clouds of Sils Maria

Irma Vep

Irma Vep

To Each His Own Cinema

Passages

Summer Hours

Bergman Island

Clean

… But Film Is My Mistress

Winter's Child

Wasp Network

Cold Water

A Special Day

Personal Shopper

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Something in the Air

Disorder

Late August, Early September

Paris Awakens

Based on a True Story

Demonlover

Room 999

The Prince and the Pauper

Quotidien

Alice and Martin