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Roland Joffé

ローランド・ジョフィ　/　ろーらんど・じょふぃ

Film director from United Kingdom

November 17, 1945 (age 80)　・　London, United Kingdom

film director
film producer
screenwriter

My Take

Roland Joffé earns a lot of respect from me on the strength of two films alone. The Killing Fields and The Mission are the kind of ambitious, morally serious epics Hollywood rarely greenlights anymore, and both pulled him Best Director Oscar nominations while The Mission took the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1986. That's an extraordinary opening run for any director. His later work didn't always reach those heights, but I think it's unfair to judge a filmmaker only by his peaks. Anyone willing to wrestle with genocide and colonial guilt on that scale deserves credit for aiming high. Those two films remain essential viewing for me.

Overview

Roland Joffé (; born 17 November 1945) is an English film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing the critically-acclaimed films The Killing Fields (1984) and The Mission (1986), both of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the latter winning the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Roland Joffé
Name (Japanese): ローランド・ジョフィ
Reading: ろーらんど・じょふぃ
Born: November 17, 1945 (age 80)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Rooster
Origin: London, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
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Occupation: film director / film producer / screenwriter / television director / director

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