Olivier Assayas

Summer Hours (2008)

Cast: Juliette Binoche Olivier Assayas Charles Berling Marin Karmitz Edith Scob   

Tags: Drama Family Drama Ensemble Film 

Length: 102min

Three siblings must come to terms with their mother's mortality as they decide what to do with her valuable belongings in this warm family drama from filmmaker Olivier Assayas. Hélène Berthier (Edith Scob) is about to turn 75, and her children are...

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Clean (2004)

Cast: Nick Nolte Olivier Assayas Maggie Cheung Béatrice Dalle Don McKellar   

Tags: Drama Family Drama Addiction Drama 

Length: 111min

A woman throws herself into a last-ditch struggle to conquer her demons in this gritty drama from director Olivier Assayas. Lee Hauser (James Johnston) is a faded ock star who lives with his wife, Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung), the former host of a...

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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Cast: Ethan Coen Roman Polanski Andrei Konchalovsky Claude Lelouch Ken Loach   

Length: 119min

At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim...

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Paris, Je T'Aime (2006)

Cast: Gérard Depardieu Ethan Coen Christopher Doyle Alexander Payne Alfonso Cuarón   

Tags: Romantic Drama Drama 

Length: 120min

Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je T'Aime features 18 short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two...

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Demonlover (2002)

Cast: Olivier Assayas Gina Gershon Connie Nielsen Charles Berling Chloë Sevigny   

Tags: Thriller Paranoid Thriller 

Length: 130min

French director Olivier Assayas departs from his usual dramas with Demonlover, a wild thriller about corporate intrigue, hardcore sex Internet sites, and Japanese animé. Wealthy French business man Henri-Pierre Volf (Jean-Baptise Malartre) assigns...

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Cinema, of Our Time: HHH - Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997)

Cast: Olivier Assayas   

Tags: Biography History Film, TV & Radio 

Length: 95min

Filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien (City of Sadness) is among Taiwan's most influential late-20th-century filmmakers. This documentary from his friend and colleague Olivier Assayas offers an in-depth look at Hou's life and fascinating career as he and a camera...

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Quartier des Enfants Rouges (2006)

Cast: Olivier Assayas Maggie Gyllenhaal Lionel Dray   

Tags: Romance 

Length: 5min

Writer/director Olivier Assayas draws on the themes in his previous film Irma Vep for this short starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lionel Dray. The segment concerns a young drug addicted actress (Gyllenhaal) who senses a burgeoning romance with her...

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Les Destinées (2000)

Cast: Emmanuelle Béart Isabelle Huppert Olivier Assayas Charles Berling Olivier Perrier   

Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama 

Length: 180min

Acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas follows up on the international success of Fin Août, Début Septembre and Irma Vep with this sweeping adaptation of the sprawling three-volume tome by Jacques Chardonne. Set in three chapters spanning from...

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Late August, Early September (1998)

Cast: Olivier Assayas Virginie Ledoyen Mathieu Amalric Arsinée Khanjian François Cluzet   

Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Drama Ensemble Film 

Length: 111min

Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year's span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until early September of the next. Gabriel (Mathieu Amalric)...

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