Olivier Assayas

A film director returns to his childhood home in provincial France with his brother and his girlfriend and discovers isolation to be an artistic ...

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and ...

Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one ...

Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes ...

A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that ...

During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. ...

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in ...

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the ...

A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest ...

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive ...

Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television’s “Cinéma, de notre temps” series, directed by ...

A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend’s terminal illness.

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

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad ...

1972. Gilles and Christine are a young couple who is struggling with family difficulties and growing up. Christine convinces Gilles to run away ...

An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of ...

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

Adrien is a nineteen year old who has not seen his father, Clément, for four years. Adrien returns home and the two try to repair their ...

Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her ...

Three young friends steal some music equipment for their struggling post-punk band and, in a panic, kill the shop’s owner. The film examines, ...

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

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)