Denis Dercourt (born 1 October 1964) is a French
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
.
Biography
Denis Dercourt's grandfather directed documentaries, his father was a film producer and his brother is also a film producer.
From 1988 to 1993, Dercourt studied philosophy at the
Paris Nanterre University and also studied at
Sciences Po
, motto_lang = fr
, mottoeng = Roots of the Future
, type = Public university, Public research university''Grande école''
, established =
, founder = Émile Boutmy
, a ...
.
Dercourt started his career as a singer and violin player. He performed with the French symphonic orchestra directed by
Laurent Petitgirard and taught music at the
Conservatoire de Strasbourg. He shot his first short film with his brother.
He has directed nine films since 1997. His film ''
La Tourneuse de pages'' was screened in the
Un Certain Regard section at the
2006 Cannes Film Festival
The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or. The President of the Official selection Jury was Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese director to preside over the ...
.
Three years later, his film ''
Demain dès l'aube
(English: Tomorrow at dawn) is one of French writer Victor Hugo's most famous poems. It was published in his 1856 collection . It consists of three quatrains of rhyming alexandrines. The poem describes a visit to his daughter Léopoldine Hugo
...
'' competed in the same section at the
2009 festival.
In 2021, he shot the French-Korean film ''
Vanishing'' based on the novel ''The Killing Room'' by
Peter May.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1964 births
Living people
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
Writers from Paris
{{France-film-director-stub