Biography: Olivier Assayas |
In the '90s Olivier Assayas emerged as one of the key figures in the new generation of French filmmakers. As a former critic for Cahiers du Cinema and a die-hard cinephile, he makes his films both personal and referential to the works of directors... more
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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...
Tags: Erotic Thriller Thriller
Length: 106min
From director Olivier Assayas comes this erotic thriller starring Asia Argento as Sandra, a former prostitute, and Michael Madsen as Miles, her onetime pimp-turned-high-powered businessman. Brought back together after a separation, Sandra and Miles...
Cast: Ethan Coen Roman Polanski Youssef Chahine Abbas Kiarostami Lars von Trier Hou Hsiao-Hsien Wong Kar-Wai Atom Egoyan
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...
Cast: Nick Nolte
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...
Cast: Gérard Depardieu Joel Coen 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...
Late August, Early September (1998)
Tags: Ensemble Film Drama Psychological Drama Romantic Drama
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)...
Tags: Paranoid Thriller 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...
Cinema, of Our Time: HHH - Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997)
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...
Quartier des Enfants Rouges (2006)
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...
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart
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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