
Alain Guiraudie
Director · b. 1964 · Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
Alain Guiraudie (born July 15, 1964), is the son of a farming family in Villefranche-de-Rouergue in the southwest of France, where most of his films are set. His most successful film to date, Stranger by the Lake, won the Best Director Award in Un Certain Regard at Cannes as well as the Queer Palm. Also a novelist, he published his debut title “Ici commence la nuit” in 2014. His film Staying Vertical screened in competition at the 2016 Cannes film festival.
Movies5
Movie6.3DramaThrillerFranck spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.
Movie10.0CrimeTwo lesbians are victims of a break-in. Together with their clan of friends, they undertake a wild investigation, with suspense and rigour, to arrive at the truth. Sensitivities are aroused around life choices, and political choices. Questions of morality comically embellished with words of abuse falling into drunkenness.
Un petit cas de conscience
2002 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
A young man who has just experienced a breakup makes a variety of encounters throughout a day.
Les Yeux au Plafond
1993 · 1 votes
Movie5.2ComedyA 1990 short film from Alain Guiraudie concerning the conversations of two film makers as they meet each night.
Movie6.0ComedyDramaOn a hot Sunday morning, Nathalie Sanchez, an unemployed hair stylist, walks across the Causses plateau in search of a shepherd. When she finds one, he tells her that he has lost his flock. They walk together and while chatting they meet several times a shepherd's son turned outlaw, Carol Izba. The latter, despite being pursued by a famous bounty killer, Pool, proves unable to leave the region...
Series2
TVDocumentaryMarcians
2017
TVTalk ShowAs long as there is cinema, LE CERCLE will be there. It is the only television program of critical debates 100% devoted to cinema. Each week, it offers fiery, joyful and non-condescending jousts on the films on the bill; and invites with "Le questionnaire du CERCLE" directors to come and share their passion for cinema.
Le Cercle
2005