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Audiard won the César Award (the French equivalent of the Academy Award) for best first film, the first of many Césars to come his way. His next film, Un Héros très discret (1996; A Self-Made Hero), is about a salesman (Kassovitz) who, after the end of World War II, concocts a new identity as a hero in the French Resistance.
Apr 25, 2013 · Audiard’s exploration of the ‘great lie’ of France as a war resister was hardly a new departure, having been dealt with by historians as well as filmmakers since at least the early-1970s.
Sep 9, 2024 · The cast of Netflix's queer musical narco-drama stopped by the L.A. Times studio to explain why Jacques Audiard was the man for the job, plus more highlights from TIFF.
Mar 16, 2022 · Audiard’s question for Beth is made all the more pertinent by the unlikely influence of My Night with Maud, a 1969 nouvelle vague drama by Éric Rohmer, on their film.
Jacques Audiard (French pronunciation: [ʒak odjaʁ]; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter.
Sep 9, 2024 · French auteur Jacques Audiard has been flirting with musical moviemaking ever since “Self-Made Hero” in 1996, when he and composer Alexandre Desplat discussed adapting that film into an opera....
Nov 30, 2016 · And I’m not that interested in people like me’ (Romney 2015); and secondly, to render marginalised characters and narratives accessible and culturally visible: ‘The political act here wasn’t liberal sentiment […] it was shooting in Tamil and making this character a hero’ (Romney 2015).
