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Olivier Assayas
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).
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As director
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Suspended Time
Wasp Network
Non-Fiction
Personal Shopper
Clouds of Sils Maria
Something in the Air
Carlos
Summer Hours
Eldorado
Eldorado/Sonntags Abschied: Live Performance
To Each His Own Cinema
Boarding Gate
Paris Je T'aime
Noise
Quartier des Enfants-Rouges
Clean
Demonlover
Sentimental Destinies
Late August, Early September
HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung
Irma Vep
Cold Water
A New Life
Paris Awakens
Winter's Child
Disorder
Winston Tong In Studio
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
As actor
Being Bo Widerberg
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
Suspended Time
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Room 999
Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
Corona Film Club
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Aware, Anywhere
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Professor Goudet's Lessons
A Special Day
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
… But Film Is My Mistress
Inventory
In the Mood for Doyle
Making of 'Demonlover'
Léaud l'unique
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits