Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 25, 1955
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
75 titles
Olivier Assayas
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Writer
Being Bo Widerberg
Self
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
Self - Filmmaker
Suspended Time
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Room 999
Self
Passages
Thanks
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Self
Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be
Self
Irma Vep
Writer
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
Self - Filmmaker
The Emma Bovary Trial
Thanks
Bergman Island
Thanks
Corona Film Club
Self
Wasp Network
Director
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
Self - director, critique
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Self
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
Self - Filmmaker
Non-Fiction
Director
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Self - Filmmaker
Aware, Anywhere
Himself
Based on a True Story
Screenplay
Personal Shopper
Director
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Self - Movie Director
Quotidien
Self - Guest
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Self
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
Clouds of Sils Maria
Director
Clique
Self - Guest
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Self
Something in the Air
Director
A Special Day
Self
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
Self (cinéaste)
Carlos
Director
Carlos
Script Editor
… But Film Is My Mistress
Self
Summer Hours
Director
Eldorado
Director
Inventory
Interviewee
Eldorado/Sonntags Abschied: Live Performance
Director
To Each His Own Cinema
Director
In the Mood for Doyle
Himself
Boarding Gate
Writer
Paris Je T'aime
Director
Quartier des Enfants-Rouges
Writer
Noise
Director of Photography
Clean
Writer
Making of 'Demonlover'
Self
Demonlover
Writer
Léaud l'unique
Self - filmmaker