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Gilles Jacob

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French essayist, film critic and film director

FranceDirectorsBorn 1930 · age 96
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Gilles Jacob is a French film critic and essayist who served as president of the Cannes Film Festival between 2001 and 2014.

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Photos 1

Filmography 21

Femme Fatale2002 · ★ 6.2
Dead Tired1994 · ★ 6.0
To Each His Own Cinema2007 · ★ 6.5
Mr. X2014
100 Films and a Funeral2007
The Legend of the Ugly King2017
Water and Sugar - Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life2017
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture2016
Heart of the Festival2002
A Special Day2012
Words in Progress2004
Morceaux de Cannes2021
A Day in the Life of French Cinema2002
Citizen B2025
Liberté1989
Thanks for Coming2026
At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World2007
Le cinéma dans les yeux1987
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione2014
Kiarostami at Work2023
Deauville et le rêve américain2020

25 credits on file

Television 2

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975
Le Grand Échiquier1972

Awards 4

2003Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Commander of the National Order of Merit
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour

Connected to Gilles 6

Yosra El LozyAlso in To Each His Own Cinema (2007)Vincent GrassAlso in Dead Tired (1994)Françoise MichaudAlso in Femme Fatale (2002)Casper ChristensenAlso in To Each His Own Cinema (2007)Guillaume DurandAlso in Dead Tired (1994)Alain SardeAlso in To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

About this person

Country
France
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
living
Dates
Born 1930 · age 96
Written about in
9 languages

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