Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas (born January 25, 1955 in Paris ) is a French director , screenwriter and long-time editor for Cahiers du cinéma .
Life
Olivier Assayas was born the son of the director Jacques Rémy. He attended the Blaise Pascal high school with a technical focus in Orsay , Essonne department , southwest of Paris. After graduating from high school, he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA). Assayas holds an MA from the University of Paris III -Sorbonne Nouvelle. After graduating, he wrote articles for the influential Cahiers du cinéma , made several short films and made his first feature film in 1986.
In 2011 he was named to the competition jury of the 64th Cannes Film Festival after having competed for the Palme d' Or three times without success in the past . A year later he received his first invitation to the competition at the Venice International Film Festival for après may . He received further invitations to the Cannes competition for Die Wolken von Sils Maria ( 2014 ) and Personal Shopper ( 2016 ). This film brought him the director's award in Cannes .
family
Assayas comes from a Jewish- Greek family from Constantinople on his father's side . His father Raymond Assayas, aka Jacques Rémy (1911-1981), was a director and screenwriter. His mother Catherine de Károlyi (1919–2006) comes from a small aristocratic, Calvinist family from Hungary, was a mannequin for Dior and Balmain and worked as a designer a. a. for Hermès . The novel, screenwriter and music journalist Michka Assayas (* 1958) is his younger brother. From 1998 to 2001, Assayas was married to actress Maggie Cheung . Since then he has been in a relationship with Mia Hansen-Løve ; the relationship has a daughter (* 2009).
Filmography
Direction and script
- 1986: Life rage (Desordre)
- 1989: The Winter Child (L'enfant de l'hiver)
- 1991: Paris awakes (Paris s'éveille)
- 1993: A New Life (Une nouvelle vie)
- 1994: The white sheet (La page blanche)
- 1996: Irma Vep
- 1997: HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien (also actor)
- 1998: end of August, beginning of September (Fin août, début septembre)
- 2000: Les destinées sentimentales
- 2002: Demonlover
- 2004: Clean
- 2006: Paris, je t'aime , 11th episode Quartier des Enfants Rouges
- 2008: Boarding Gate
- 2008: End of Summer (L'heure d'été)
- 2010: Carlos - The Jackal (Carlos)
- 2012: The wild time (Après May)
- 2014: The Clouds of Sils Maria (Sils Maria)
- 2016: Personal Shopper
- 2018: Between the Lines (Doubles vies)
- 2019: Wasp Network
Script for films by other directors
- 1985: Rendez-Vous - Director: André Téchiné
- 1986: Scene of the crime (Le lieu du crime) - Director: André Téchiné
- 1998: Alice & Martin - Director: André Téchiné (collaboration on the script)
- 2017: Based on a true story (D'après une histoire vraie) - Director: Roman Polański (co-writer of the screenplay)
Works
- Conversations with Ingmar Bergman . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2002
- Olivier Assayas: A Post-May Adolescence. Letter to Alice Debord . Translated and annotated by Adrian Martin and Rachel Zerne. Vienna: SYNEMA 2012. (Filmmuseum Synema Publications. 17.) ISBN 978-3-901644-44-3
Awards
- 1992: Jean Vigo Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Olivier Assayas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Olivier Assayas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
literature
- Kent Jones (Ed.), Olivier Assayas , FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Volume 16, Vienna: SYNEMA - Society for Film and Media, 2012, ISBN 978-3-901644-43-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ France Culture , accessed September 15, 2016.
- ↑ Contribution to the series Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge, named in the unabridged long version as L'eau froide
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Assayas, Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |