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Olivier Assayas

Olivier Assayas

French film director, screenwriter and film critic
January 25, 1955 (69 years old)

Suspended Time

V.O.: Hors du temps
Fr. 2024. Comedy by Olivier Assayas with Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nine d’Urso. In 2020, COVID-19 forces a film director and his brother, a sports journalist, to remain confined to their childhood home, in the company of their new partners.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2020. Mores drama by Olivier Assayas with Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, Gael Garcia Bernal. In the early 1990s, a Cuban airplane pilot leaves his wife and child to go to the United States to join a secret network that infiltrates anti-Castro activist groups.
Runtime: 127 min.

Non-Fiction

V.O.: Doubles Vies
Fr. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Olivier Assayas with Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Vincent Macaigne. In Paris, once a writer’s paradise, , publishers and their relatives struggle amid the upheaval caused by the digital revolution.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 2017. Thriller by Roman Polanski with Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green, Vincent Pérez. A writer, exhausted by the promotion of her latest autobiographical novel, is overpowered by an admirer who takes control of her life.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2016. Thriller by Olivier Assayas with Kristen Stewart, Anders Danielsen Lie, Lars Eidinger. While waiting to receive a sign from her recently deceased twin brother, an American psychic living in Paris works to fill the wardrobe of a superstar.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2014. Drama by Olivier Assayas with Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz. With the help of her American assistant, a middle-aged actress plays the role of the victim in a play in which twenty years earlier she had played the young woman of intrigue.
Runtime: 123 min.

Something in the Air

V.O.: Après mai
Fr. 2012. Drama by Olivier Assayas with Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Félix Armand. In early 1970s France, the hopes and disillusions of an aspiring artist and his high school friends.
Runtime: 122 min.

Carlos the Jackal

V.O.: Carlos
Fr. 2010. Biography by Olivier Assayas with Edgar Ramirez, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach. The life of the terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, from his involvement in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to his arrest in Sudan in 1994.
Runtime: 165 min.

Summer Hours

V.O.: L'Heure d'été
Fr. 2008. Psychological drama by Olivier Assayas with Charles Berling, Juliette Binoche, Jérémie Renier. Upon their mother's death, her heirs attempt to reach an agreement on the liquidation of her assets, including a valuable art collection.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 2006. Music documentary by Olivier Assayas.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2006. Thriller by Olivier Assayas with Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng. Suspected of the murder of her lover who was an influential businessman, a woman with an elusive character gets lost in Hong Kong.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 2004. Psychological drama by Olivier Assayas with Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle. The widow of a famous rock musician who died of an overdose must give up drugs if she wants to see her son, who is being raised by his in-laws, again.
Runtime: 111 min.
Fr. 2002. Thriller by Olivier Assayas with Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny. Troubled and ruthless relationships are forged between the executives of a Parisian corporation where corporate espionage reigns.
Runtime: 121 min.

Les Destinées

V.O.: Les Destinées sentimentales
Fr. 2000. Chronicle by Olivier Assayas with Charles Berling, Emmanuelle Béart, Isabelle Huppert. At the beginning of the 20th century, a divorced Protestant minister left the pastorate, remarried and then took over the family business.
Runtime: 174 min.
Fr. 1998. Psychological drama by Olivier Assayas with Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet. A young man, who is going through a breakup with his girlfriend, works on a television show about a very sick writer friend.
Runtime: 112 min.
Runtime: 95 min.

Cold Water

V.O.: La Page blanche
Fr. 1993. Psychological drama by Olivier Assayas with Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, Laszlo Szabo. A rebellious teenager despairs after being placed in a nursing home by her divorced father.
Fr. 1991. Mores drama by Olivier Assayas with Judith Godrèche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann. An aspiring actress who lives with an older writer becomes the mistress of his son.
Fr. 1988. Psychological drama by Olivier Assayas with Clotilde de Bayser, Michel Feller, Marie Matheron. A young man leaves his pregnant girlfriend for a stage set designer.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 1986. Mores drama by Olivier Assayas with Wadeck Stanczak, Ann-Gisel Glass, Lucas Belvaux. A disagreement arises among a group of young musicians after a robbery that leads to a man's death.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1985. Mores drama by André Téchiné with Juliette Binoche, Lambert Wilson, Wadeck Stanczak. A young actress is loved by two men, one of whom has perverted tendencies.
Runtime: 83 min.
Fr. 1985. Mores drama by André Téchiné with Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi. A woman's tidy life is turned upside down when her son meets a prison escapee.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1985. Science-fiction by Jérôme Diamant-Berger with Julia Migenes, Tcheky Karyo, Sami Frey. A man tries to thwart a mad scientist who is trying to create the perfect holographic representation of a rock star.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1979. Crime drama by Yves Allégret with Jean Richard, Michel Blanc, Caroline Cartier.
Runtime: 91 min.

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