Gilles Bourdos

Gilles Bourdos
Bourdos in 2011
Born	1963 (age 60–61) Nice, France
Occupation(s)	Director, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1989–present

Gilles Bourdos (born 1963) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his atmospheric cinema, which uses troubling themes in contrast with strong aesthetic imagery. He was one of the founders of the French production company Persona Films which produced most of his early work.^[1][2] Bourdos often collaborates with filmmaker Michel Spinosa, cinematographer Mark Lee Ping Bin and musician Alexandre Desplat.

Life and career

Bourdos, who was born in Nice, France, made his feature film début at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival with Disparus (1998), a political thriller and love triangle during the Surrealist movement in Paris in 1938.^[3] His second critically acclaimed feature, Inquietudes (2003), is based on the Ruth Rendell novel A Sight for Sore Eyes and stars Gregoire Colin and Julie Ordon.^[4][5] His first English language film, Afterwards (2008), featured Evangeline Lilly, John Malkovich, and Romain Duris, and was based on the French bestseller Et Après... by Guillaume Musso.^[6][7]

His widely acclaimed 2012 film Renoir competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.^[8][9] The film tells the forgotten story of Andree Heuschling, also known as Catherine Hessling, who was the last model of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the first actor in the films of his son, the director Jean Renoir. The story is set in the south of France during World War I. The film stars Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, and Vincent Rottiers. Renoir was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.^[10][11][12]

Filmography

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Screenwriter	Producer
1986	Un Cadeau de noël	Yes			Short
1988	La Rue ouverte		Yes		Short
1989	L'Eternelle idole	Yes	Yes		Short
1990	La Jeune fille et la mort		Yes		Short
1993	Relache	Yes	Yes		Short
1994	Emmène-moi		Yes	Yes
1996	Mirek n'est pas parti			Yes
1997	Un frère			Yes
1998	Disparus	Yes	Yes	Yes
2003	Inquiétudes	Yes	Yes
2008	Afterwards	Yes	Yes
2012	Renoir	Yes	Yes		Nominated—Cannes Film Festival - Prix Un certain regard Nominated—Lumières Award for Best Film Nominated—Lumières Award for Best Director
2016	Espèces menacées	Yes	Yes

References

1. "Gilles Bourdos". en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
2. "Gilles Bourdos, cinéaste polymorphe". www.avoir-alire.com. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
3. www.humanite.fr https://www.humanite.fr/1999-02-10_Cultures_GILLES-BOURDOS-REDONNE-CORPS-A. Retrieved 2008-07-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)^{[title missing]}
4. http://www.mecaniquefilmique.com/inquietudes.html Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2008-07-11
5. "Inquiétudes - Gilles Bourdos - Critique de Inquiétudes". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2008-07-11. Retrieved 2008-07-11
6. "Et après... (Guillaume Musso) @ madmoizelle.com". Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2008-07-11. Retrieved 2008-07-11
7. [1]^{[dead link]} Retrieved 2008-07-11
8. "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
9. Pulver, Andrew (2012-04-30). "Cannes 2012: seven films join the lineup". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
10. "Renoir représentera la France aux Oscars 2014". L'Express. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
11. Richford, Rhonda (2013-09-16). "Oscars: France Nominates 'Renoir' in Foreign Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
12. "Renoir biopic to be France's official Oscars submission". The Guardian. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-17.

External links

• Gilles Bourdos at IMDb
• https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/movies/inside-the-rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-series.html?pagewanted=all
• http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2013/03/04/film-review-renoir/
• http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/renoir-film-review-331147
• http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/artist/id/22092.html Cannes Film Festival