Olivier AssayasFilmography

Born:: January 25, 1955 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: 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 that he adores. His father was a...Read More

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Summer Hours

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: 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 gathering at her home in the country for a party. Read More

5/15/09
Boarding Gate

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng, Kelly Lin, Joana Preiss, Alex Descas, Kim Gordon

Synopsis: 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 are reunited when Sandra returns to Paris after Read More

3/21/08
Paris, Je T'Aime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 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 segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

5/4/07
To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 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 a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

2007
Clean

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar

Synopsis: 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 rock star who lives with his wife, Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung), the former host of a European music video show, in a small town in Read More

4/28/06
Noise

Crew: Director

2006
Quartier des Enfants Rouges

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lionel Dray

Synopsis: 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 dealer (Dray). This film was included in Paris, Je T'Aime Read More

2006
Demonlover

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, Gina Gershon, Jean-Baptiste Malartre

Synopsis: 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 Diane de Monx (Connie Nielson) to make a deal with Read More

9/19/03
Les Destinées

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: 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 the beginning of the 1900s to after WWI, the first Read More

4/5/02
Late August, Early September

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar, Alex Descas, Arsinée Khanjian

Synopsis: 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) and Jenny (Jeanne Balibar) separate, despite the Read More

8/20/99
Alice et Martin

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Maguelon

Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, auteur Andre Techine offers an intense, intimate look inside the complex relationship between two emotionally dysfunctional people. Neither Alice (Juliette Binoche) nor Martin (Alexis Loret) seem emotionally healthy enough to sustain a relationship, but somehow they Read More

11/4/98
Cinema, of Our Time: HHH - Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: 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 crew follow the filmmaker through Taipei and Read More

1997
Irma Vep

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep tells the story of has-been French filmmaker René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). In an attempt to reinvigorate his career, Vidal decides to remake Les Vampires, the classic silent serial featuring the adventures of jewel thief Irma Vep. Playing Read More

11/13/96
L'Eau Froide

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dominique Faysse

Synopsis: Written and directed by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, L'Eau Froide is a romantic drama about young, rebellious love in 1972 Paris. Christine (Virginie Ledoyen) and Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) are 16-year-old lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general Read More

1994
Francois Truffaut: Portraits Volés

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: In homage to one of France's great directors, this highly personal documentary features those that knew him best, including his daughter Ewa and fellow filmmaker Claude Chabrol as they offer their comments and analysis of his career and his fascinating life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Une Nouvelle Vie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sophie Aubry, Judith Godrëche, Bernard Giraudeau, Christine Boisson, Philippe Torreton

Synopsis: Tina (Sophie Aubry) is an unpleasant young woman with an unpleasantly supine mother and an unpleasantly futureless boyfriend. Even for someone whose range of facial expressions consists of mild-to-moderate sulking, this is too much, and she decides to look up the father she has never known. Along Read More

1993
Paris s'éveille

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Judith Godrëche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: Louise (Judith Godrèche) is living with Clément (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an older man who copes with her bouts of drug addiction and is attempting to give her a hand in getting a television career going. When the man's son Adrien (Thomas Langmann), who is on the run from the police, comes to stay with Read More

11/27/91
L'Enfant de l'Hiver

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Clotilde de Bayser, Marie Matheron, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Gérard Blain

Synopsis: In this French romantic drama, Stephane (Michel Feller) wants to form a romantic bond with Sabine (Clotilde de Bayser), and to do this has left his pregnant girlfriend behind. Sabine would rather be with Bruno (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) her former boyfriend, a stage actor. Bruno in turn is much more Read More

1989
Rendez-Vous

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Lambert Wilson, Wadeck Stanczak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Juliette Binoche teams with Lambert Wilson in this erotic drama. Binoche plays Nina, the young lady friend of timid Paulot (Wadeck Stanczak). Though she intends to be true to Paulot, Nina falls hard for his roommate, Quentin (Wilson), a thoroughly self-centered actor who performs in live sex Read More

5/15/87
Le Lieu du Crime

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Danielle Darrieux, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: Scene of the Crime (Le Lieu du Crime) begins with a quote from Great Expectations. Thirteen-year-old Nicolas Giraudi, picking flowers in a cemetery, is surprised by escaped criminal Wadeck Stanczak, who orders the boy to bring him some money. Displaying no signs of fear, Giraudi does what he is Read More

1/23/87
Avril Brise

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Adelin, Violeta Sanchez, Alexandre Arbatt

Synopsis: A 100-year-old family feud in Albania continues to target men for vengeful execution in this somber drama. The people are bound by an ancient code of honor to avenge one death with that of another from the assailant's family. Gjerg (Jean-Claude Audelin) becomes a hero to his family when he kills Read More

1987
L'Unique

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Sami Frey, Charles Denner, Jezabel Carpi

Synopsis: This routine drama's main distinctions are the musical numbers by Julia Migenes Johnson as a misbehaving singer and the computer-assisted scenes that are melded with actual scenes for the first time in French cinema. The singer has been missing her scheduled performances -- or just simply cuts out Read More

1986
Desordre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Wadeck Stanczak, Ann-Gisele Glass, Lucas Belvaux, Simon de la Brosse, Remi Martin

Synopsis: After serving his apprenticeship as a screenwriter for director André Techiné, former movie critic Olivier Assayas wrote and directed this film. In the story, a penniless girl and two similarly impoverished boys with ambitions of becoming a successful rock group are sorely in need of some Read More

1986
Passage Secret

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dominique Laffin, France Camus, Francois Siener, Ged Marlon

Synopsis: In a somewhat deflated story of robbery and deception set against the rooftops and byways of Paris, a group of enterprising petty thieves take advantage of the dog days of August to burglarize vacated apartments. At this time of year, all Parisiens are on vacation elsewhere, and the city is Read More

1985