Patrice Énard

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-09-17 (63 years old)

Deathday

2008-06-01

Place of Birth

Bordeaux, Gironde, France

Patrice Énard

Biography

Énard made his first short films in the mid-1960s. From the outset, his provocative style, stripped of all psychology, attests to the fact that he was part of the generation that launched the French protests of May ‘68. Invested in the dialectic of disobedience, his films constantly question their immersion in the ideological context of the time, in order to better escape it. Énard’s cinematic expression evolved toward a fundamentally analytical and experimental form of cinema. Driven by his increasingly personal reflections, he developed his own language and perfected it through the prism of an atypical, radical esthetic. His later films cou...

Acting

1972

Scoundrel in White

as (uncredited)

Production

1982

Pourvoir

as Director

1980

Double Life

as Director

1968

Parcours

as Director

1970

1972

1973

1980

Double Life

as Writer

1982

Pourvoir

as Cinematography

1982

Pourvoir

as Producer

1975

as Camera Operator

1976

Les Écrans déchirés

as Cinematography

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