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Jacques Audiard

French director and screenwriter
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Jacques Audiard (born April 30, 1952, Paris, France) is a French film director and screenwriter whose crime films have been acclaimed for their scripts and strong lead performances. Audiard is the son of noted screenwriter Michel Audiard, who is best known for his screenplays for crime films, particularly director Henri Verneuil’s Mélodie en sous-sol (1963; Any Number Can Win) and Claude Miller’s Garde à vue (1981). Jacques Audiard studied literature at the Sorbonne but left before completing his degree. He entered the film industry as an assistant editor on several movies in the late 1970s, including Roman Polanski’s Le Locataire ...(100 of 562 words)

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