Bruno Podalydès
Director, screenwriter & actorAbout
“Ultimately, when you make a film you want to make people dream, accuracy isn’t enough. It’s about making things more intense.”
Bruno Podalydès directed in 1992 his first short film, acclaimed Versailles rive gauche, which won several awards, including the Audience Award at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and the Cesar Award for Best Short Film in 1993. The following year, he shot Voilà, awarded at the Venice Film Festival. In 1998, with his brother Denis’ complicity, he made his first feature film Dieu seul me voit (Versailles-Chantiers), a comedy that won the Cesar Award for Best First Feature Film. Writer of all his screenplays, he cosigned in 2001 with his brother a new opus, Liberté-Oléron, and its sequel Granny’s Funeral ten years later, selected at 2012 Directors’ Fortnight. In 2003, he adapted a detective novel by Gaston Leroux: The Mystery of the Yellow Chamber with a lot of actors he met again in 2005 in a second adaptation, The Perfume of the Lady in Black. He then directed Bancs Publics (Versailles Rive-Droite) (2009), The Sweet Escape (2015), and Bécassine! (2019). He is also an actor and starred in all his own films, but also worked for other directors, such as Claire Denis in Let the Sun Shines In (2017) and Jeanne Herry in In Safe Hands (2018).
