Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1996 La Mort dans l’Âme—Paroles de Femmes corses
(documentary; also editor)
Les Couleurs du Silence (documentary; also
editor)
2002 Le Bal du Triomphe de l’Amour (documentary;
also editor)
2004 La Mémoire volée—Retour au Musée de Bagdad
(documentary; also editor)
2005 L’Amour aveugle (documentary; also editor)
ASSAYAS, OLIVIER (January 25, 1955, Paris,
France–)
The son of screenwriter Jacques Rémy (1910–1981),
he was fi rst a fi lm critic writing in several magazines
(1979–1981 Métal Hurlant; 1980–1985 Les Cahiers du
Cinéma; 1982–1985 Rock & Folk). In 1977, he was a
third assistant director to Richard Fleischer (Crossed
Swords / UK: The Prince and the Pauper, UK / USA).
A co-screenwriter notably for André Téchiné (1985
Rendez-vous / US video: André Téchiné’s Rendez-Vous;
Le Lieu du Crime / UK: Le Crime / USA: Scene of the
Crime; 1998 Alice et Martin / Alice y Martin / USA:
Alice and Martin, France / Spain), Laurent Perrin
(1981 Scopitone, short; 1985 Passage secret), Jérôme
Diamant-Berger (1986 L’Unique / USA: The Original),
and Liria Bégéja (1987 Avril brisé), he directed his fi rst
short in 1979. He authored several books published
by Les Cahiers du Cinéma, including Eloge de Kenneth
Anger (1999), Conversation avec Bergman (2004), and
Une Adolescence dans l’après-Mai: Lettre à Alice Debord
(2005). He was formerly married to actress Maggie
Cheung (1998–2001).
Filmography
1979 Copyright (short)
1980 Rectangle—Deux Chansons de Jacno (short)
1982 Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1984 Winston Tong en Studio (documentary; short)
1986 Désordre (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1989 L’Enfant de l’Hiver / USA: Winter’s Child (also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1991 Paris s’éveille / Contro il destino (also screenwriter,
dialogist; France / Italy)
1993 Une Nouvelle Vie / USA: A New Life (also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1994 L’Eau froide (also screenwriter, dialogist;
originally shot for TV under the title La Page
blanche)
1996 Irma Vep (also screenwriter, dialogist)
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1999 Fin Août, Début Septembre / USA: Late August,
Early September (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2000 Les Destinées sentimentales / USA: Les Destinées
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist;
France / Switzerland)
2002 Demonlover (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2004 Clean (also screenwriter, dialogist; France /
Canada / UK)
2006 Paris, je t’aime (segment “Quartier des Enfants
rouges”)
Noise (documentary)
2007 Boarding Gate (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Chacun son Cinéma ou Ce Petit Coup au Coeur
quand la Lumière s’éteint et que le Film commence
(segment “Recrudescence”; also screenwriter)
2008 L’Heure d’Eté (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1997 Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; episode
“HHH—Un Portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien”;
also screenwriter; France / Taiwan)
2008 Eldorado / Preljocaj: Eldorado (documentary)
ASSOUS, ERIC (March 30, 1956, Tunis, Tunisia–)
He arrived in France in 1974 for completing his
studies and spent four years at the Beaux-Arts. Then
he wrote detective short stories for a humoristic
weekly magazine before authoring two plays for the
Café-Théâtre (1982–1984 Apocalypse Na; 1983 Le
Ticket) and, from 1983 to 1987, more than eighty
radio plays for France Inter. A playwright (1990
Union libre; 1992 Sans mentir; 1994 Une Fille entre
nous; 1996 Le Portefeuille; 2000–2002 Les Acteurs
sont fatigués; 2002–2004 Retour de Madison; 2004
Les Montagnes russes, starring Alain Delon; 2007 Les
Belles-Sœurs; 2008 Secret de Famille) and a screenwriter
for fi lms (notably La Femme défendue, Philippe
Harel, 1997; Les Randonneurs, Philippe Harel, 1997;
Une Hirondelle a fait le Printemps / UK and USA: The
Girl from Paris, Christian Carion, 2001; Moi César, 10
Ans ½, 1m39, Richard Berry, 2003; Tu vas rire mais je
te quitte, Philippe Harel, 2005; La Boîte noire, Richard
Berry, 2005; Deux Jours à tuer, Jean Becker, 2008;
Les Randonneurs à Saint-Tropez, Philippe Harel, 2008,
Nos 18 Ans, Frédéric Berthe) and TV (about a dozen
TV movies and TV episodes including three Nestor
Burma adventures: 1997 Sortie des Artistes, Philippe
Venault; 1998 Les Affaires reprennent, Philippe Venault;
2001 N’appelez pas la Police, David Delrieux), he occasionally
directed fi lms.