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Director, Screenwriter Born: January 25, 1955 in Paris, France Biography:In the '90s "Olivier Assayas" emerged as one of the key figures in the new generation of French filmmakers. As a former critic for Cahiers du Cinema and a die-hard cinephile, he makes his films both personal and referential to the works of directors that he adores. His father was a director/screenwriter in the 1940s who later worked mainly for TV. When it was increasingly difficult for him to work because of a health condition, Olivier started to help him, first merely as a secretary, and then ghostwriting a few screenplays for the "Maigret" TV series. In the late 1970s he joined the team of influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinema, that once launched the French New Wave. While working for Cahiers he wrote essays on his favorite European filmmakers, "Robert Bresson", "Ingmar Bergman", "Andrei Tarkovsky", and published extensive studies on American horror films and Hong Kong Cinema (the latter... Full Biography
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