Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas ( born January 25, 1955 in Paris ) is a French director, screenwriter and long-time editor of Les Cahiers du cinéma.
Life
Olivier Assayas was born as the son of director Jacques Rémy. The novelist and music journalist Michka Assayas is his younger brother. Olivier attended high school with technical orientation Blaise Pascal in Orsay, Essonne département, south-west of Paris. After high school he was on the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris ( ENSBA ). Assayas obtained the title of MA at the University of Paris III -Sorbonne Nouvelle.
1998 married Assayas film actress Maggie Cheung, in 2001 he divorced from her again.
In 2011 he was appointed to the jury of the 64th Cannes Film Festival, after competing in the past three times unsuccessfully for the Golden Palm. A year later he received his first invitation to compete in the International Film Festival of Venice for Après mai.
Filmography
Director and Screenwriter
Screenwriter for films of other directors
Works
- Interviews with Ingmar Bergman. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2002