Gilles Bourdos

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Gilles Bourdos (2011)

Gilles Bourdos (* 1963 in Nice , France ) is a French film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Bourdos produced a number of short films between 1987 and 2003, for which he also wrote the scripts and directed. At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival , his first feature film, Disparus, was awarded the Soleil d'or ; the leading roles were played by Michel Spinosa and Brigitte Catillon . Catillon also starred in Bourdos' first short films.

His second feature film, Inquiétudes, from 2003, with Jean Colin and Julie Ordon in the leading roles, is based on the novel A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell . His first English-language film, Afterwards, with Evangeline Lilly , John Malkovich and Romain Duris was released in 2003 and was based on the novel Et après by Frenchman Guillaume Musso .

His film Renoir from 2012 describes the relationship of the painter model Catherine Hessling to the impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and to his son, her future husband, the film director Jean Renoir . The film took part in the Un Certain Regard competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 .

More movies

  • 1989: La Jeune Fille et la Mort , screenplay.
  • 1995: Emmène-moi , with Michel Spinosa: screenplay.
  • 1995: Mirek n'est pas parti , producer.
  • 1998: Un Frère , producer.
  • 2008: Afterwards (An Angel in Winter), director and screenplay.
  • 2012: Renoir , director.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The skin of the muse: “Renoir”, a film from France in FAZ from February 6, 2013, page 29