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Christophe Honoré

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
12

Gender
Male

Birthday
April 10, 1970 (56 years old)

Place of Birth
Carhaix, Brittany, France

Christophe Honoré

Biography

Christophe Honoré (born 10 April 1970; Carhaix) is a French writer and film and theatre director.

Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He started writing soon after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a film in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, Les Débutantes, was performed at Avignon's Off Festival in 1998. In 2005, he returned to Avignon to present Dionysos impuissant in the "In" Festival, with Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel playing the leads.

A well-known director, he is considered an "auteur" in French cinema. His 2006 film Dans Paris has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague cinema. In 2007, Les Chansons d'amour was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Honoré is openly gay, and some of his movies or screenplays (among them Les Filles ne savent pas nager, Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard and Les Chansons d'amour) deal with gay or lesbian relations. His film Plaire, aimer et courir vite (Sorry Angel), about a writer who has contracted HIV in the 1990s, won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film in 2018. Honoré has been the screenwriter for some of Gaël Morel's films. The actors Louis Garrel and Chiara Mastroianni have each had roles in several of his films.

Honoré has also directed several operas for the stage. For the Opéra de Lyon he directed Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 2013, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 2015, and Verdi's Don Carlos in 2018. He also presented his production of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Edinburgh Festival in 2016, and Puccini's Tosca at Aix-en-Provence in 2019; both of these productions adopted a radical approach to traditional works.

In the summer of 2020 Honoré's rehearsals of his stage production of Le Côté de Guermantes, based on the third volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, were interrupted by restrictions to combat the COVID-19 epidemic and it became impossible to present it at the Comédie-Française as planned. With his troupe of actors he decided to make a film about the production and the uncertainties they were now facing, and the film Guermantes was released in September 2021.

Known For

Directing

2026Orange-Flavoured Wedding...Director
2025Les Idoles...Director
2024Marcello Mio...Director
2024Marcello Mio...Stage Director
2022Winter Boy...Director
2021Guermantes...Director
2020From My Home to Yours...Director
201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing...Director
2019On a Magical Night...Director
2018Sorry Angel...Director
2016Così fan tutte...Director
2016Sophie's Misfortunes...Director
2014Metamorphoses...Director
2011Beloved...Director
2010Man at Bath...Director
2009Making Plans for Lena...Director
2009Angelo, tyran de Padoue...Stage Director
2009Angelo, tyran de Padoue...Director
2008The Beautiful Person...Director
2008Hotel Kuntz...Director
2007Love Songs...Director
2006In Paris...Director
2004Ma mère...Director
200217 fois Cécile Cassard...Director
2002Close to Leo...Director
2000Nous deux...Director
Le Ciel de Nantes...Director

Writing

2026Orange-Flavoured Wedding...Screenplay
2025Les Idoles...Writer
2024Marcello Mio...Screenplay
2022Winter Boy...Screenplay
2022The World of Yesterday...Writers' Assistant
2021Guermantes...Screenplay
2019On a Magical Night...Screenplay
2018Sorry Angel...Writer
2016Sophie's Misfortunes...Screenplay
2015Two Friends...Screenplay
2014Metamorphoses...Writer
2011Let My People Go !...Writer
2011Beloved...Writer
2010Man at Bath...Writer
2009Making Plans for Lena...Writer
2008The Beautiful Person...Screenplay
2008Sunny Spells...Writer
2008Hotel Kuntz...Writer
2007After Him...Scenario Writer
2007Love Songs...Screenplay
2006In Paris...Writer
2004Three Dancing Slaves...Writer
2004Ma mère...Writer
2002Novo...Writer
200217 fois Cécile Cassard...Screenplay
2002Close to Leo...Novel
2000Girls Can't Swim...Writer
2000Nous deux...Writer
Le Ciel de Nantes...Writer

Production

2015Like Cattle Towards Glow...Associate Producer

Acting

2022Winter Boyas Claude Ronis
2021Guermantesas
2021C ce soir, le débatas Self - Guest
2015Like Cattle Towards Glowas
2012Squareas Self
2011Sagatas Self
2008Sunny Spellsas Photographer
2008Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourgas Self
2005Le Cercleas Self
2004Kulturplatzas Self
2003Un film et son époqueas Self
2002A Day in the Life of French Cinemaas Self