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Alain Guiraudie

アラン・ギロディ　/　あらん・ぎろでぃ

Actor from France

July 15, 1964 (age 61)　・　Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France

Aveyron
actor
film director
screenwriter

My Take

Alain Guiraudie is a director I admire precisely because he refuses to behave. Stranger by the Lake (2013) earned him the Cannes Best Director prize and the Queer Palm, and it deserved both. The film takes a quiet cruising spot by a lake and slowly turns desire into dread. What I find rare is how he keeps making frankly queer, rural-set work without softening it for wider taste. He's been doing this since the 1990s, on his own terms. There's a stubborn, almost rustic patience to his filmmaking that I respect. He unsettles you without ever raising his voice.

Overview

Alain Guiraudie (French: [giʁodi]; born 15 July 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter. He is most known for his gay erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake (2013), and has directed mostly LGBT-related films since the 1990s.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Alain Guiraudie
Name (Japanese): アラン・ギロディ
Reading: あらん・ぎろでぃ
Born: July 15, 1964 (age 61)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Cancer / Dragon
Origin: Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: actor / film director / screenwriter

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

2013 Queer Palm
2013 Un Certain Regard
2013 Cannes Best Director Award
2014 Sade Prize

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	That Old Dream That Moves	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AD%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3

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