Alain Guiraudie
Alain GUIRAUDIE (1964, France) is a French film director and screenwriter with a singular and unique voice in cinema. Guiraudie is a self-taught filmmaker who worked as a night guard and then made a number of often comic shorts and features in which his love for the French countryside is clearly visible. With Stranger by the Lake (2013), he became known internationally, as it was screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, winning the award for Best Director. Staying Vertical (2016), which most vividly depicted Guiraudie’s primary subject – freedom – premiered at Cannes.
Filmography
Les herós sont immortels (1990, short), Tout droit jusqu’au matin (1994, short), La force des choses (1998, short), Du soleil pour les gueux (2001, short), Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (2001, short), Pas de repos pour les braves/No Rest for the Brave (2003), Voici venu le temps (2005), On m’a volé mon adolescence (2008, TV), Le roi de l’évasion/King of Escape (2009), L’inconnu du lac/Stranger by the Lake (2013), Rester vertical/Staying Vertical (2016), Viens je t’emmène/Nobody’s Hero (2022), Miséricorde/Misericordia (2024)
More info: Wikipedia, Alain Guiraudie
Alain Guiraudie at IFFR
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Miséricorde
An earthy, deliciously ambiguous tale of sex, death and mushrooms, set in a picturesque French village.
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L’inconnu du lac
In mid-summer by an idyllic lake, Franck falls in love with Michel, a beautiful man who happens to be dangerous too. Franck knows all about the dan
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Staying Vertical
Filmmaker Léo has to raise the child he had with a shepherdess alone. At the same time, he struggles to find inspiration for his next film.
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Du soleil pour les gueux
The wry story of the hairdresser who wanted to meet a ‘ounaye’ shepherd, the shepherd who had lost his ‘ounayes’ and a thie
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