Biography
Philippe Besson (born 29 January 1967 in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente) is a French writer. In 1999, Besson, a law graduate, was inspired to write his first novel, En l'absence des hommes while reading of accounts of ex-servicemen during the First World War. The novel, with its daring inclusion of Marcel Proust as a central character, won the Prix Emmanuel Roblès. Besson's second novel, Son Frère was shortlisted for the Prix Femina, and adapted for cinema by Patrice Chéreau in 2003. The fi...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Lie with Me
2023
Novel
An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lu...
Entre vents et marées
2014
Story
In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband had just sold part of their property to two shady...
The Lanzac Clan
2013
Writer
A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdrop of family secrets and the unsaid. Elisabeth Lanz...
La solitude du pouvoir
2012
Writer
Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, a...
Second Chances
2012
Writer
Rasputin
2011
Writer
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
A Bad Encounter
2011
Screenplay
Meet the wicked story of a symbiotic friendship between two boys, Wolf and Mando. They meet on a bench in a square and grow together, sharing the same...
Mourir d'aimer
2009
Writer
Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher.
Caché
2005
as TV Guest
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that...
His Brother
2003
Novel
After years of estrangement due to difficulties accepting his brother's sexuality, a man diagnosed with a terminal illness decides to reconnect. As th...
I Can't Sleep
1994
as Police Officer at Accident
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arri...
The Sentinel
1992
A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.
L'Île aux oiseaux
1988
as Coquille
On a stormy night, off the coast of the Arcachon basin, a small sailboat named "Julie" disappears with a young girl of the same name on board. What re...
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school c...