Gilles Bourdos

Bourdos often collaborates with filmmaker Michel Spinosa, cinematographer Mark Lee Ping Bin and musician Alexandre Desplat.

• Name — Gilles Bourdos • Born — 1963 • Birthplace — Nice, France • Occupation — Director, screenwriter, producer • Years Active — 1989–present

Bourdos, who was born in Nice, France, made his feature film début at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival with Disparus (1998), a political thriller and love triangle during the Surrealist movement in Paris in 1938. His second critically acclaimed feature, Inquietudes (2003), is based on the Ruth Rendell novel A Sight for Sore Eyes and stars Gregoire Colin and Julie Ordon. His first English language film, Afterwards (2008), featured Evangeline Lilly, John Malkovich, and Romain Duris, and was based on the French bestseller Et Après... by Guillaume Musso. His widely acclaimed 2012 film Renoir competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the forgotten story of Andree Heuschling, also known as Catherine Hessling, who was the last model of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the first actor in the films of his son, the director Jean Renoir. The story is set in the south of France during World War I. The film stars Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, and Vincent Rottiers. Renoir was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

• Year — Title — Credited as — Notes • Director — Screenwriter — Producer • 1986 — Un Cadeau de noël — Short • 1988 — La Rue ouverte — Short • 1989 — L'Eternelle idole — Short • 1990 — La Jeune fille et la mort — Short • 1993 — Relache — Short • 1994 — Emmène-moi • 1996 — Mirek n'est pas parti • 1997 — Un frère • 1998 — Disparus • 2003 — Inquiétudes • 2008 — Afterwards • 2012 — Renoir — Nominated—Cannes Film Festival - Prix Un certain regard Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Film Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Director • 2017 — Endangered Species