Olivier Asselin

Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec

Olivier Asselin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.^[1] He is most noted for his films The Moving Statue (La Liberté d'une statue), which was the winner of the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1991,^[2] and The Cyclotron (Le Cyclotron), for which he won the Borsos Competition Award for Best Screenplay at the 2016 Whistler Film Festival.^[3]

He is a professor of art and film history at the Université de Montréal.^[4] His filmmaking style is marked by the exploration of philosophical and scientific themes, presented in a highly stylized manner that pays tribute to the aesthetic of older periods in film history,^[5] and has been compared to the styles of Guy Maddin and early Lars von Trier.^[6]

He is married to Lucille Fluet, who has appeared as an actress in all of his films and was a co-writer of several of them.^[4]

Filmography

The Moving Statue (La Liberté d'une statue) - 1990
The Seat of the Soul (Le siège de l'âme) - 1997
A Sentimental Capitalism (Un capitalisme sentimental) - 2008
The Cyclotron (Le Cyclotron) - 2016

References

^ François Houde, "Olivier Asselin: petit budgets, grosses ambitions". Le Nouvelliste, February 10, 2017.
^ "La Liberté wins Quebec festival". Ottawa Citizen, February 18, 1991.
^ Jordan Pinto, "Before the Streets wins big in Whistler". Playback, December 5, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Mario Cloutier, "Olivier Asselin: le statut de la liberté". La Presse, November 1, 2008.
^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Cyclotron, Le – Film de Olivier Asselin". Films du Québec, February 1, 2017.
^ Martin Gignac, "Le cyclotron: les particules élémentaires d’une romance". Métro, February 14, 2017.