French film director and screenwriter (born April 30, 1952, Paris, France), whose crime films have been acclaimed for their scripts and strong lead performances.
Audiard is the son of noted screenwriter Michel Audiard, who is best known for his screenplays for crime films, particularly director Henri Verneuil’s Mélodie en sous-sol ( Any Number Can Win 1963 ) and Claude Miller’s Garde à vue (1981). Audiard studied literature at the Sorbonne but left before completing his degree. He entered the film industry as an assistant editor on several movies in the late 1970s, including Roman Polanski’s Le Locataire (The Tenant 1976). He switched to screenwriting with the spy thriller Le Professionel (The Professional 1981).
Audiard’s first film as a
director was Regard les hommes tomber (See How They Fall 1994), which
wove together two separate story lines—one about a man (played by Jean Yanne)
searching for the killer of his friend and the other concerning the actions of
the murderers (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz) before the
crime. Audiard also cowrote the screenplay, as he would for many of his
subsequent movies. Audiard won the César Award (the French equivalent of the Academy
Award) for best first film, the first of many Césars to come his way. His next
film, Un Héros très discret (A Self-Made Hero 1996), is about a
salesman (Kassovitz) who, after the end of World War II, concocts a new
identity as a hero in the French Resistance. Sur mes lèvres (Read My Lips 2001) centres
on the relationship between a deaf, lip-reading secretary (Emanuelle Devos) and
an ex-convict (Vincent Cassel), each of whom relies on the other’s abilities.
Films :
Dheepan
Produced by
: Pascal Caucheteux
Screenplay
by : Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré
Starring : Antonythasan
Jesuthasan
Music by : Nicolas
Jaar
Cinematography
: Eponine Momenceau
Edited by : Juliette
Welfling
Production Companies : Canal+, Ciné+
Distributed
by : UGC Distribution
Release date
: 21 May 2015
Running time
: 115 minutes
Country : France
Language : Tamil,
French, English
