Laurent Tirard

Laurent Tirard is a French film director and screenwriter.

Background

Laurent Tirard grew up admiring American films, such as those by Steven Spielberg. [ [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12264595 NPR: 'Moliere' ] ] He studied film making at New York University, worked as a script reader for Warner Bros. studios, then became a journalist and worked for the French film magazine "Studio" for six years.

There, he conducted a series of interviews on film making which have been published as a book under the title "Moviemakers' Mister Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors." From Woody Allen to David Cronenberg, the Coen brothers to Lars Von Trier, all flam directors run up against the same essential concerns: how to direct actors, for example, or whether to pre-plan camera angles. In interviewing these and 16 other notable filmmakers, Tirard found notable affinities between seemingly dissimilar directors. The book has also been published in France, Canada, England, Italy, Spain and Brazil.

In 1997, he left the magazine and began writing scripts for film and television, while directing two short films, in 1999 and 2000. He wrote and directed his first feature, "The Story of My Life", in 2004, co-wrote the hugely successful "Prête-moi ta main (How to Get Married and Stay Single)" for Alain Chabat in 2005, then wrote and directed his second film, "Molière", the following year.

He is currently working on an adaptation of a famous French children's book "Le Petit Nicolas", which he plans to begin filming in 2008.

Films

*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796335/ Moliere ] " - 2007
*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478724/ How to Get Married and Stay Single (Prête-moi ta main) ] " - 2006
*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433020/ Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie ] " - 2004
*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383025/ The Story of My Life (Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités) ] " - 2004

*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289688/ De Source Sûre ] " - 1999

Television

*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427552/ Mon Vrai Père ] " - 2004

*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312992/ Mère, Fille: Mode d'Emploi ] " - 2002

*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298576/ Ton Tour Viendra ] " - 2002

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1016687/ Laurent Tirard on IMDB]