Alain Guiraudie

French director born in 1964 in Villefranche de Rouergue.

Born into a farming family, Alain Guiraudie wrote several unpublished novels at a very young age. He then directed several short and mid-length films, including That Old Dream That Moves (2001), presented at the Directors’ Fortnight. Jean-Luc Godard consecrated it as “the best film at Cannes”. Continuing to shoot in his native southwest, Alain Guiraudie directed his first feature film, No Rest for the Brave, in 2003. Time Has Come (2005) and The King of Escape (2009) were to follow. In 2013, Stranger by the Lake was a huge hit. Selected at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, it received the Best Director Award and the Queer Palm. In 2014, he published his first novel Ici commence la nuit with Éditions POL. His most recent film, Staying Vertical, in official competition at Cannes, was released in August 2016.
Medium-length film : Sunshine for the Poor (2001) – That Old Dream That Moves (2001)

Feature film : No Rest for the Brave (2003) – Voici venu le temps (2005) – The King of Escape (2009) – Stranger by the Lake (2013) – Staying Vertical (2016) – Nobody's Hero (2022)

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Alain Guiraudie
about The Adventures of Pinocchio
of Luigi Comencini
I like this movie very much for its melancholy, its realistic poetry and even its roughness. The tale is set in a social reality.
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Alain Guiraudie
about The Great Silence
of Sergio Corbucci
It is a political and very dark movie that tells us to stop relying on the providential hero.
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Alain Guiraudie
about What Have I Done to Deserve This?
of Pedro Almodóvar
It is one of the movies that shaped me. Almodovar's cinema is very generous and creative. There are few of them that have looked for beauty in the slums.