Gilles Taurand

Nascimento : 1943-06-02, Paris, France

Filmes

Constance aux enfers
Writer
Except for Amine and Kimmy, the young couple of neighbors she meets regularly, visitors are rare in Constance Brunel's antique store. Loneliness is also her life. One night, Amine, in a panic, seeks help at her house: Kimmy has fallen badly when she slipped and she has killed herself. Thinking that the police will not believe this version because of his judicial past, Amine borrows Constance's car to take the corpse and make it disappear. In the days that follow, this shared secret brings Constance and Amine closer. But one morning, an anonymous letter accompanied by photos demands a ransom: someone in the building has seen everything, the blackmail begins.
Grand marin
Writer
Lili has left everything behind to travel to the edge of the earth and accomplish her dream, fishing the Northern seas. She persuades Ian, the captain of a trawler by the name of Rebel, to give her a chance and let her join the crew. The only woman on board, they call her Sparrow. Hidden behind a frail appearance is a will of steel, and her courage and determination ultimately win over their respect. Adopted into this world of often unfortunate individuals, Lili will conquer her right to live differently, free. Debut film.
Il Boemo
Dramaturgy
The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. Thanks to her, he gets the opportunity to play at salons. But his real opportunity arises when he becomes the lover of a libertine marquise. She teaches him worldly manners, rids him of signs of a provincial upbringing and introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Thus transformed, Josef gets an incan incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo, Europe's largest theatre.
Juliette dans son bain
Scenario Writer
Ronny Kandiotis, a billionaire and art lover, is the guest of a major museum, on the occasion of a donation to France of two paintings, one by Gauguin and the other by Munch. The same evening, his daughter Lara, is kidnapped by a mysterious organization, which demands as ransom the publication of texts casting opprobrium on this supposedly virtuous man, while the media is already actively seizing the case.
Les particules élémentaires
Writer
2009. Michel Djerzinski, a genius researcher specialized in molecular biology, mysteriously disappears in Ireland. His latest discoveries would have opened the way to a major upheaval in the history of human genetics. This is the occasion for a dizzying plunge in time where we discover his half-brother Bruno, a tortured joker who will meet love in a post-sixties campsite, Janine, Bruno's and Michel's mother, a former hippie who has always refused to raise her children in a conventional way, and Annabelle, with whom Michel will fall in love as a child.
Mali Twist
Screenplay
Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
Um Intruso no Porão
Screenplay
Neste suspense provocador, um casal vende um depósito no porão do prédio onde mora a um senhor aparentemente comum. Quando ele faz do local sua casa, descobrem sua natureza odiosa, manipuladora e antissemita, tentam desesperadamente anular o negócio.
Tout contre elle
Writer
Girlfriend or enemy? Does the young cleaning lady Alice really want to protect the well-heeled Hélène from a scandal or rather blackmail her? In any case, Alice not only found her lifeless body and Hélène's wallet in her employer Svende Petersen's home, but also video footage that weighed heavily on Hélène. Because the married to a budding Member Hélène has fled without help from the apartment of her lover, when she became aware that Svende no longer breathes. But now Alice knows her secret. It becomes Hélène's menacing shadow ...
Cannes, le festival libre
Writer
Eva
Screenplay
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.
Coração e Alma
Screenplay
Três jovens saem para pegar umas ondas e ver o nascer do sol. No caminho de volta, eles sofrem um grave acidente. Um deles, Simon, é internado em estado grave. Depois de um período, sua morte cerebral é declarada e sua família decide que irá doar seus órgãos. Inicia-se, então, a jornada contra o tempo para transplantar o coração de Simon para uma moça em um hospital de Paris.
Sophie's Misfortunes
Screenplay
Adaptação do romance infantil homônimo da Condessa de Ségur.
Uma História de Loucura
Writer
Berlim 1921. Talaat Pacha, a principal pessoa por trás do genocídio armênio, é morto na rua por Soghomon Thelirian, cuja família inteira foi exterminada. Sessenta anos mais tarde, Aram, um jovem de ascendência armênia nascido em Marselha, explode o carro do embaixador turco em Paris.
Week-ends
Additional Writing
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, Sylvette and Ulrich, are no longer such good friends. Everything is falling apart at the seams. But life is always full of surprises.
Vandal
Screenplay
15-year-old Chérif feels like a million bucks behind the wheel of a stolen car. Placed under the guardianship of his Aunt and Uncle, he has to return to his apprenticeship as a mason. It's his last chance. But every night graffiti artists descend upon the city's walls. And with this, a whole new world opens up before him...
Bad Seeds
Screenplay
Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster’s son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young English teacher Camille. When Greg asks Louis to help him take revenge on Camille, Louis accepts, fascinated...
Minha Irmã
Writer
Suíça. Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) é um garoto de 12 anos que comete pequenos roubos em uma estação de esqui. Ele mora com a irmã, Louise (Léa Seydoux), e vende os produtos roubados para vizinhos do conjunto habitacional em que vive. Quando Louise perde o emprego, ela passa a depender dos ganhos do irmão. Só que o tempo passa e ela, sem perceber, fica cada vez mais dependente dele.
Adeus, Minha Rainha
Writer
A notícia da tomada da Bastilha chega à Corte, afugentando nobres e servos que abandonam o Rei Luís XVI. Uma jovem leitora devotada à Maria Antonieta ignora os acontecimentos e inicia uma relação com a rainha durante a Revolução Francesa.
The Other Dumas
Screenplay
Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.
O Exército do Crime
Dialogue
Numa Paris ocupada pelas tropas alemãs, o operário Missak Manouchian encabeça uma pequena resistência formada por jovens comunistas. Por sua coragem, vão se tornando lenda de um combate desigual contra as tropas nazis.
O Exército do Crime
Adaptation
Numa Paris ocupada pelas tropas alemãs, o operário Missak Manouchian encabeça uma pequena resistência formada por jovens comunistas. Por sua coragem, vão se tornando lenda de um combate desigual contra as tropas nazis.
O Exército do Crime
Scenario Writer
Numa Paris ocupada pelas tropas alemãs, o operário Missak Manouchian encabeça uma pequena resistência formada por jovens comunistas. Por sua coragem, vão se tornando lenda de um combate desigual contra as tropas nazis.
Welcome Home
Writer
Julien, 28, returns to his home town. He's spent the last 13 years in prison. Out on probation, he's obsessed by a girl... Emily. And one day, he reaches for her: "it's me". She turns around, looks at him and starts to scream.
O Lar
Writer
Marthe, Michel e seus três filhos moram tranqüilamente em uma casa isolada no meio do nada, em frente à qual uma larga estrada permanece vazia, fechada desde sua construção. No início do verão, ela é finalmente inaugurada. A família tenta manter sua rotina, mesmo com o estresse causado pelo barulho incessante de centenas de carros. Mas os efeitos a longo prazo do incômodo com a constante perturbação instauram um clima crescente de tensão familiar. Ainda assim, eles se recusam a deixar o lar construído com tanta dedicação.
A Bela Junie
Screenplay
Junie (Léa Seydoux) é uma garota de 16 anos que se mudou após a morte de sua mãe. Ela passa a estudar na mesma turma que seu primo Matthias, que a apresenta aos demais colegas. Todos os garotos logo desejam sair com Junie, mas ela escolhe o mais calado de todos, Otto Clèves. Porém, Junie descobre o grande amor de sua vida: Nemours (Louis Garrel), seu professor de italiano.
Lost Paradises
Writer
Paris, 1968. Overnight, Isabelle, a young high school student, comes home in shock after what she saw in the streets. Her parents decide to take her to the countryside to escape the disorders. From then on, Isabelle has only one thing in mind: get back to Paris. Instead, her life will take a whole different direction.
Esta Noite
Screenplay
Estação de Santamaria à noite. Ossorio, homem dos seus quarenta anos, sai de um comboio, por entre uma multidão de refugiados e de soldados derreados. É numa cidade sitiada que este herói de uma resistência em fuga tenta reencontrar os seus antigos aliados e aquela que ama. Mas a situação agora é outra, e os amigos de ontem já não têm o mesmo discurso. Enquanto uma milícia desenfreada aterroriza a cidade, cada um só quer é salvar a própria vida.
The Last Mitterrand
Screenplay
A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.
O Clã
The man from the farm
Os irmãos Marc, Christophe e Olivier vivem com o pai, recém-viúvo, lidando cada um deles com suas frustações. Marc volta as dívidas com traficantes, planeja uma vingança e aguarda o irmão mais velho, Christophe, sair da cadeia para ajudá-lo. Olivier, o mais sensível dos três, lida com a questão da sua descoberta: a de que ama um jovem de origem africana, lutador de capoeira. Christophe volta regenerado e disposto a começar a trabalhar em uma fábrica, lutando contra o seu passado. Marc, arriscando-se cada vez mais, entra no perigoso submundo das drogas. E Olivier encontra em Hichman uma história de paixão.
Anjo da Guerra
Screenplay
Junho de 1940. Os alemães se preparam para invadir Paris. Odile (Emmanuelle Béart) obedece ao pânico geral e abandona a cidade junto com seus dois filhos, Philippe (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) e Cathy (Clémence Meyer). Mas, logo no início da peregrinação, os alemães bombardeiam e metralham o campo de refugiados. Um rapaz enfeitado e de cabeça raspada (Gaspard Ulliel) aparece de uma vala para salvá-los. Seu nome é Yvan, e ele tem apenas 16 anos. Eles vão para o campo e descobrem uma grande casa abandonada por seus proprietários. Yvan permanece um mistério: da mesma forma que mente a Odile e a seus filhos, tem um grande cuidado em protegê-los. Resta aos quatro saber conviver com a desconfiança para conseguir sobreviver.
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Writer
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
This Is My Body
Screenplay
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events conspire to draw Antoine towards the same lover.
A Considerable Disturbance
Screenplay
Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart...
O Tempo Redescoberto
Scenario Writer
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.
Stop
Screenplay
Laurent hasn't seen his father since the age of two. His father has just had an accident. He almost died. Laurent refuses to go see this father who always acted as if he didn't exist. Julie, his girlfriend, tries to convince him.
Alice and Martin
Writer
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.
Dormez, je le veux!
Writer
Cora is a teenager and has a lot of problems (mostly because of the relationship with her parents). One day she meets Katz, a hypnotizer who makes shows in the whole country, and his assistant Pedro. Then she manages to convince Katz to bring her with him in order to teach her his job. Thus Cora leaves her home without saying any word to her parents and begins a long trip through France with a very tumultuous relationship with Katz and Pedro.
Man Is a Woman
Writer
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
Dry Cleaning
Screenplay
A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
Thieves
Writer
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan's partners in a seedy nightclub; the love triangle of Alex, Juliette, and Marie, a professor of philosophy; and of Alex and his nephew, Ivan's dour, stoic son. Ivan's death changes every relationship.
Le chêne et le roseau
Screenplay
Rosas Selvagens
Writer
Um registro dos anos 1960, em Villeneuve, sudoeste da França, durante a guerra da independência da Argélia. Entre dúvidas sobre a adolescência, a sexualidade e a política, um grupo de amigos vai ingressando, cada qual à sua maneira, no mundo dos adultos. Henri, um jovem argelino, é enviado à cidade para completar seus estudos e acaba trazendo aos colegas a dura realidade da guerra. François e Serge são desafiados pela agressividade de Henri, enquanto a bela Maïté se sente atraída por ele.
Hotel das Américas
Writer
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.
Bandit rouge
Screenplay
Le temps d'aimer
Writer
1947. On a beach, Madeleine, a waitress in a hotel restaurant, mother of a little boy, meets François, a rich and cultivated student. The force of attraction that pushes them towards each other is commensurate with the secrecy that each carries. If we know what Madeleine wants to leave behind by following this young man, we discover over time, what François is desperately trying to flee by mixing Madeleine's fate with his.