Writer of O

Published in Paris in 1954, Story of O was an immediate bestseller and literary scandal: an elegantly written S&M fantasy that had all the hallmarks of being an autobiographical account by the pseudonymous Pauline Ré

Public Writer

Sarah Maldoror interviews women of different nationalities who serve as “public” writers, linking French administrative bodies with people who cannot speak or write French.

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma

L'ÉCRIVAIN

A short film by Jasper Kirkpatrick-Navarre. Follows an aspiring writer called Jean-Luc.

L'Écrivain de la famille

Pierre Klossowski, un écrivain en images

Portrait of french author and painter Pierre Klossowski

L'écrivain

In the 1960s, in a cabin in the middle of the forest, a writer is harassed by a television producer who wants to force him to submit his latest script. But there's something the producer doesn't know...

The Last Writer

Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.

The Writer

Joe, a young writer, embarks on writing his second book after the runaway success of his first. But Joe is quickly overwhelmed by the remarks of those close to him, remarks that will eventually obsess him until he can no

The Blind Writer

This was made without looking at the drawings during the animation. A challenge that materializes the writer's perplexity: in a world of "communication", what does "seeing" mean?

Through the writer's mirror

In a small office cluttered with books and other detritus of the writer's life, filmmaker Alexandre Westphal and the writer Percival Everett explore his work. Archival images are projected onto the walls, invading the sp

Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from the detached point of view of Maximilian Aue, a high-ranking Nazi office

Moi, Magyd Cherfi : portrait intimiste d'un chanteur devenu écrivain

Marcel Proust - Une vie d'écrivain

Luis Sepúlveda, l'écrivain du bout du monde

Sur les traces d'Henry de Monfreid - Écrivain et pirate de la mer Rouge

The Writer and the Murderer: The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère

In 1993, Jean-Claude Romand murdered his entire family, shattering a lifetime of lies. Fascinated by the case from the beginning, French writer Emmanuel Carrère reviews the painful gestation of the book he dedicated to i

The Ghost Writer

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For

Jessica Fletcher, lecturing at a writers' conference, finds herself called on to solve the killing of a guest speaker, an arrogant Russian author who'd written a nonfiction, tell-all book about his tenure as head of the

The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most translated Equatoguinean writer, but he had to flee the country in 2011, after starting a