Alain Guiraudie

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Jul 15, 1964 (60 years old)

Alain Guiraudie

Known For

Stranger by the Lake
1h 40m
Movie 2013

Stranger by the Lake

Frank 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.

Un petit cas de conscience
1h 35m
Movie 2002

Un petit cas de conscience

Two 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.

Sunshine for the Poor
0h 58m
Movie 2001

Sunshine for the Poor

On 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...

Les Yeux au Plafond
0h 25m
Movie 1993

Les Yeux au Plafond

A young man who has just experienced a breakup makes a variety of encounters throughout a day.

Heroes Never Die
0h 13m
Movie 1990

Heroes Never Die

A 1990 short film from Alain Guiraudie concerning the conversations of two film makers as they meet each night.

Biography

The director was born in 1964, 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.

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