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Complete Filmography

The Richest Woman in the World
2025
Screenplay
Marianne is THE richest woman in the world. Pierre-Alain, is a dandy-writer-photographer in Paris. They meet on a photo shoot and become inseparable. ...

Rosalie
2024
Script Consultant
France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair. She’s concealed her p...

Boléro
2024
Screenplay
Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ra...

Cyril Collard : À la vie, à l'amour
2023
as Self
It's a tale of two shocks. 1992, Les Nuits fauves hits theaters. 1993, Cyril Collard dies of AIDS. The artist and his film caused a scandal in 90s Fra...

Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
2023
Adaptation
"Don Juan woman", according to the expression of Balzac. A princess, a great seductress. Of a diabolical intelligence. This woman, who has had many lo...

Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste
2023
as Lui-même
Stage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest French directors. Mysterious, singular, elegant, she has be...

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
2022
as Self - Scénariste & réalisateur
Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated the cinema? Because he could never become a director...

Lovers
2021
Writer
Set in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead t...

Lost Illusions
2021
Adaptation
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he ...

Alien Crystal Palace
2018
Writer
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the cre...

The Apparition
2018
Co-Writer
Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate...

The Sower
2017
Writer
In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by ...

From the Land of the Moon
2016
Screenplay
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.

Yves Saint Laurent
2014
Screenplay
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre B...

La fin de la nuit
2014
Writer
Twenty years have passed. Thérèse lives alone in Paris. We exiled her there. She seems to be asking nothing more for life. She is sick and lives in sl...

Going Away
2013
Writer
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of...

A View of Love
2010
Writer
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a trad...

Je ne vous oublierai jamais
2010
Scenario Writer
Marseille, 1941. Despite the war, young Levilé still hopes to save his mother and sisters in Poland and organize their departure for Argentina.

All Girls Cry
2010
Writer
Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forward.

Charlie Says
2006
Screenplay
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.

La Californie
2006
Director
Mirko and Stefan, Serbian refugees, move to the French Riviera. There they meet Maguy who lives in a luxurious mansion up the hill above Cannes with a...

Only the Night
2005
Writer
A video library clerk becomes obsessed with a sleepwalking woman and takes it upon himself to save her from catastrophe.

Nathalie...
2003
Writer
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hopin...

Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
2003
as Self
Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews, recorded shortly before his death, director Claude Sautet gives us a fascinating lesson in cinema. Throu...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

How I Killed My Father
2001
Writer
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he...

Sade
2000
Writer
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

Sentimental Destinies
2000
Writer
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He ...

Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
1999
Writer
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one a...
The Human Eye
1999
as Himself
A 55-minute film by director Xavier Giannoli that analyses 'À nos amours'. The film features former Cahiers du cinéma editorial director Jean-Michel F...

The School of Flesh
1998
Writer
Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Tw...

Place Vendôme
1998
Writer
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love i...

Irma Vep
1996
as Roland
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a...

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
Screenplay
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. Whi...

Le Roi de Paris
1995
Writer
Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a st...

Le fils préféré
1994
Writer
Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies....
Archipel
1993
Screenplay
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.

A Heart in Winter
1992
as un client de la librairie
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be ...

A Heart in Winter
1992
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be ...

A Heart in Winter
1992
Screenplay
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be ...

Savage Nights
1992
Adaptation
Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura, does he come to realize his bisexuality. Jean has to overc...

Every Other Weekend
1990
Writer
Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's ...

A Few Days with Me
1988
Writer
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpe...

Police
1985
Screenplay
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, ...

Le hasard mène le Jeu
1985
as L'auto-stoppeur

A Nos Amours
1983
as Le Beau-frère
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratche...
Meursault, contre-enquête
N/A
Screenplay
Rien que nous deux
N/A
Screenplay
Des rayons et des ombres
N/A
Screenplay
Jean and Otto, a French press man and a young German Francophile, fight for peace in Europe. Jean's daughter, Corinne, begins a brilliant career as a ...
Gabin, un héros français
N/A
Screenplay