Jérôme Salle

Jérôme Salle 2012

Jérôme Salle (* 1967 in Paris ) is a French film director and screenwriter .

Life

Jérôme Salle initially worked as a press photographer and commercial filmmaker. In 2000 he made his first short film, Le jour de grâce .

He made his feature film debut in 2005 with Anthony Zimmer . The thriller with Sophie Marceau and Yvan Attal in the lead roles was nominated for a César in the category Best Debut . Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck shot a remake of the film in 2010 under the title The Tourist . In the following years Salle appeared as the director of the comic adaptations Largo Winch and Largo Winch II - The Burma Conspiracy .

In 2013, his thriller Zulu was selected as the closing film of the 66th Cannes Film Festival . The film, shot in South Africa, is based on a novel by Caryl Férey. In 2016 , Salle Jacques-Yves Cousteau created a cinematic monument with Jacques - Explorer of the Oceans .

Filmography (selection)

• 1997: L'homme idéal - screenplay
• 2000: Le jour de grâce (short film) - director, screenplay
• 2005: Anthony Zimmer - director, screenplay
• 2005: Duplicity - Your Family Is Mine (Trouble) - Screenplay
• 2008: Largo Winch - Tödliches Erbe (Largo Winch) - Director, screenplay
• 2011: Largo Winch II - The Burma Conspiracy (Largo Winch II) - Director, Screenplay
• 2013: Zulu
• 2016: Jacques - discoverer of the oceans (L'odyssée)

Web links

• Jérôme Salle in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jérôme Salle canalplus.fr, accessed on April 19, 2013 (French)
2. ↑ Cannes Film Festival closes with "Zulu" ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kino-zeit.de, April 15, 2013, accessed on April 19, 2013