Olivier Assayas

April 2020––Lockdown. Etienne, a film director, and his brother Paul, a music journalist, are confined together in their childhood home with their new partners Morgane and Carole. Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of the absents––their parents, their neighbors… This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.

April 2020––Lockdown. Etienne, a film director, and his brother Paul, a music journalist, are confined together in their childhood home with their new partners Morgane and Carole. Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of the absents––their parents, their neighbors… This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.

April 2020––Lockdown. Etienne, a film director, and his brother Paul, a music journalist, are confined together in their childhood home with their new partners Morgane and Carole. Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of the absents––their parents, their neighbors… This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.

Lars Eidinger is one of Germany’s most talented and versatile actors with his love of improvisation and physical acting style. This documentary seeks to dispel some of the mystique surrounding this exceptional actor’s unique art and also provide an exciting insight into the world of theatre and filmmaking.

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.

Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop.

90年代のマイアミで、反カストロ勢力によるテロ活動を阻止する目的で、亡命者組織に潜入したキューバ人スパイらの活躍と苦悩を描く。史実に基づく物語。

90年代のマイアミで、反カストロ勢力によるテロ活動を阻止する目的で、亡命者組織に潜入したキューバ人スパイらの活躍と苦悩を描く。史実に基づく物語。

A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.

A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others.

Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.

Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.

30 years after his debut, Olivier Assayas is back in New York to present his latest feature film shot in Paris, London, Prague and Oman - This portrait of the filmmaker is part of the collection « Cinéma, de notre temps » created by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe.

ベストセラー作家に近づく謎に満ちたエル＜彼女＞。 彼女は何者なのか？ 狙いは何なのか？ ふたりの女性の危ういほどスリリングな関係に、 ポランスキーが仕掛けた戦慄のミステリー フランスで今もっとも注目されている作家デルフィーヌ・ド・ヴィガンの小説「デルフィーヌの友情」を映像化したのは巨匠ロマン・ポランスキー。熟練の技巧を凝らして随所に意味ありげな描写を織り交ぜながら、ふたりのヒロインがたどる予測不能の運命をスリリングに映し出す。人間の孤独とアイデンティティーの揺らぎ、密室的なシチュエーションで膨れ上がる極限の不安、じわじわと曖昧になっていく現実とフィクションの境目。これらまさしくポランスキー的なサスペンスと倒錯が渦巻く映像世界は、ひとときもスクリーンから目が離せず、ラスト・シーンを見届けた後もしばし観客を幻惑する。

Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in opulence and idleness, but Luchino wanted a different destiny. This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian Dumais-Lvowski wanted to tell. Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life. This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life, dedicated to art; theater, opera, and cinema. This artistic work is also that of a committed man, who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party, and who resisted fascism.

オリヴィエ・アサイヤス監督が贈る異色の心理ミステリー。兄を亡くした喪失感の中で、不可解な出来事に直面するヒロインを描く。 オリヴィエ・アサイヤス監督が『アクトレス～女たちの舞台～』に続いてクリスティン・スチュアートを起用し、カンヌ国際映画祭監督賞を受賞した心理ミステリー。『トワイライト』シリーズでブレイク後、本格派女優として活躍するクリスティンが、セレブの私生活を覗くうちに思わぬ事件を招く買い物代行業の女性を繊細かつミステリアスに演じる。予想外の展開を見せる物語は勿論、映画を彩るハイブランドファッションも見逃せない。

オリヴィエ・アサイヤス監督が贈る異色の心理ミステリー。兄を亡くした喪失感の中で、不可解な出来事に直面するヒロインを描く。 オリヴィエ・アサイヤス監督が『アクトレス～女たちの舞台～』に続いてクリスティン・スチュアートを起用し、カンヌ国際映画祭監督賞を受賞した心理ミステリー。『トワイライト』シリーズでブレイク後、本格派女優として活躍するクリスティンが、セレブの私生活を覗くうちに思わぬ事件を招く買い物代行業の女性を繊細かつミステリアスに演じる。予想外の展開を見せる物語は勿論、映画を彩るハイブランドファッションも見逃せない。

オリヴィエ・アサイヤス監督が贈る異色の心理ミステリー。兄を亡くした喪失感の中で、不可解な出来事に直面するヒロインを描く。 オリヴィエ・アサイヤス監督が『アクトレス～女たちの舞台～』に続いてクリスティン・スチュアートを起用し、カンヌ国際映画祭監督賞を受賞した心理ミステリー。『トワイライト』シリーズでブレイク後、本格派女優として活躍するクリスティンが、セレブの私生活を覗くうちに思わぬ事件を招く買い物代行業の女性を繊細かつミステリアスに演じる。予想外の展開を見せる物語は勿論、映画を彩るハイブランドファッションも見逃せない。

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.

大女優として知られるマリア（ジュリエット・ビノシュ）は、忠実なマネージャーのヴァレンティーヌ（クリステン・スチュワート）とともに、二人三脚で日々の仕事に挑んでいた。そんななか、マリアはかつて自身が世間に認められるきっかけとなった作品のリメイクをオファーされる。しかし、その役柄は彼女が演じた若き美女シグリッド役ではなく、彼女に翻弄される中年の上司、ヘレナ役。若い主人公の配役は、すでにハリウッドの大作映画で活躍する若手女優のジョアン（クロエ・グレース・モレッツ）に決定していた…

大女優として知られるマリア（ジュリエット・ビノシュ）は、忠実なマネージャーのヴァレンティーヌ（クリステン・スチュワート）とともに、二人三脚で日々の仕事に挑んでいた。そんななか、マリアはかつて自身が世間に認められるきっかけとなった作品のリメイクをオファーされる。しかし、その役柄は彼女が演じた若き美女シグリッド役ではなく、彼女に翻弄される中年の上司、ヘレナ役。若い主人公の配役は、すでにハリウッドの大作映画で活躍する若手女優のジョアン（クロエ・グレース・モレッツ）に決定していた…

Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour lecture that concludes the themes and methods of the filmmaker.

During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.

During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier, the film provides a vivid portrait of the artist who in each new project found a challenge for himself and for the people he worked with - both actors and colleagues behind the camera.

Three siblings struggle to deal with the recent death of their mother, the end of their childhoods and their unique visions for the future.

Three siblings struggle to deal with the recent death of their mother, the end of their childhoods and their unique visions for the future.

Olivier Assayas’ Eldorado is a riveting documentary chronicling the efforts of Ballet Preljocaj to choreograph an otherworldly icon of 21st century music: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ethereal Sonntags-Abschied.

A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas' film Summer Hours, and its approach to art.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

Christopher Doyle is one of the best known and most acclaimed directors of photography in world cinema. Born in Australia, he sees himself as an Asian citizen rather than a Westerner. His artistic contribution to the films of Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Jimou and Fruit Chan films, among others, is indisputable. Filmed in DV and Super8, this documentary is a kind of wild and stylized road movie -- from Bangkok to Hong Kong, via New York. The camera follows this eccentric and outrageous artist as he gives us his thoughts on his past and present work. From the recent sets of Invisible Waves by Thailand's Pen ek Ratanaruang, and M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, to the locations in Hong Kong where he shot some of his most famous pictures, such as In The Mood for Love and Dumplings, Chris Doyle talks about his cinematic fascination for Asian culture.

A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong.

A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong.

A thief with an ambiguous relationship to a young woman steals her purse during a screening.

＜モンマルトル編＞駐車できる場所を探し求めてモンマルトルの坂道を走り回った末、ようやく見つけたスペースにマイカーを滑り込ませた男性主人公は、すぐ近くで女性が行き倒れとなっているのと遭遇する。＜セーヌ河岸編＞2人の悪友とともにセーヌ河岸に陣取って、道行く女性たちの品定めをしていたフランソワ。偶然目の前で転んだアラブ系の若い女性を助け起こした彼は、彼女の美しさにたちまち魅せられる。その他、計18話。

＜モンマルトル編＞駐車できる場所を探し求めてモンマルトルの坂道を走り回った末、ようやく見つけたスペースにマイカーを滑り込ませた男性主人公は、すぐ近くで女性が行き倒れとなっているのと遭遇する。＜セーヌ河岸編＞2人の悪友とともにセーヌ河岸に陣取って、道行く女性たちの品定めをしていたフランソワ。偶然目の前で転んだアラブ系の若い女性を助け起こした彼は、彼女の美しさにたちまち魅せられる。その他、計18話。

Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.

Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesied the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient Demonlover, a chilling exploration of the nexus between sex and violence available at the click of a button.

A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.

A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He and his lover keep their love strong as the world changes around them.

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He and his lover keep their love strong as the world changes around them.

Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.

Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.

A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.

A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.

Twenty-year-old Martin seems to be living the dream. After moving from the French countryside to Paris, he quickly found professional success as a fashion model and romantic fulfillment in dating his half-brother's fiery roommate, Alice. Deep down, however, he is avoiding inner turmoil that stems from his tumultuous upbringing. But when Alice becomes unexpectedly pregnant, the full force of his repression is let loose, wreaking havoc on his life.

Experimental short made by Olivier Assayas for Fondation of Contemporary Art and starring Maggie Cheung.

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…

An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.

An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.

In a shock after her mother’s sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise.

In a shock after her mother’s sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise.

Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.

Adrien is 19 years old. He has not met his father, Clément for 4 years. Adrien returns home and the two try to better understand each other. Clément lives together with Louis, a twenty-something girl who wants to be an actress. The boy starts a flirt with Louise which pushes the father-son relationship back to a crisis...

Adrien is 19 years old. He has not met his father, Clément for 4 years. Adrien returns home and the two try to better understand each other. Clément lives together with Louis, a twenty-something girl who wants to be an actress. The boy starts a flirt with Louise which pushes the father-son relationship back to a crisis...

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.

Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.

A 100-year-old family feud in Albania continues to target men for vengeful execution in this somber drama.

Three young friends steal some music equipment for their struggling post-punk band and, in a panic, kill the shop’s owner. Assayas’ debut feature examines, with characteristic restraint and acuity, the psychological fallout as the band unravels—and each of its members grapple with their own feelings of guilt, paranoia, and despair.

Three young friends steal some music equipment for their struggling post-punk band and, in a panic, kill the shop’s owner. Assayas’ debut feature examines, with characteristic restraint and acuity, the psychological fallout as the band unravels—and each of its members grapple with their own feelings of guilt, paranoia, and despair.

In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance, the murderer and the boy's mother form an alliance. All this takes place in four days during which the boy has his first communion, his separated parents face each other amidst grandmother's hopes they'll reunite, the grandfather just wants to go fishing, the school's chaplain complains about the boy's behavior, and the convicts' shared girlfriend comes, gun in hand, to help them escape to Tangier. The mother's surprising decisions complete the story.

In a somewhat deflated story of robbery and deception set against the rooftops and byways of Paris, a group of enterprising petty thieves take advantage of the dog days of August to burglarize vacated apartments. At this time of year, all Parisiens are on vacation elsewhere, and the city is invaded by tourists on vacation from their own cities. In this mass rearrangement of the European population, the thieves get away with their looting until they run into an architect who catches them in the act. But his morals are nothing to brag about, as he gets more involved in what they are doing and wants some of their take. He is also smitten with one of the down-and-out women the thieves have been supporting (Dominque Laffin). As in so many French dramas, these conflicting relationships are doomed to be resolved only by tragedy.

Nina, young girl from the provinces discovering the capital, meets people by chance, and carries out apprenticeship of the theatre and love. Paulot first of all, reassuring figure of an ordinary man, solid as a rock. Then Quentin, a fallen actor tormented by a past drama, violent as lightning. Finally, Scrutzler, an inflexible and exhausted director who chooses Nina, throws her on the stage. A revelation is born through these three meetings. But, it is with herself that Nina has an appointment.

Nina, young girl from the provinces discovering the capital, meets people by chance, and carries out apprenticeship of the theatre and love. Paulot first of all, reassuring figure of an ordinary man, solid as a rock. Then Quentin, a fallen actor tormented by a past drama, violent as lightning. Finally, Scrutzler, an inflexible and exhausted director who chooses Nina, throws her on the stage. A revelation is born through these three meetings. But, it is with herself that Nina has an appointment.

Winston Tong and collaborators are interviewed during a busy day at the recording studio.

A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.

A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.

Two minimalist music videos that Assayas shot for French electro-pop star Jaco, Rectangle and Anne cherchait l'amour (featuring Elli Medeiros)

A thief unknowingly steals a blue diamond from Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo, setting off a war between the two men as they both try to keep one step ahead of the FBI.