Over the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has
become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first
feature "D?sordre" (1986) and such major works as "L'Eau froide,
Irma Vep, Les Destin?es Sentimentales, demonlover" and, most
recently, "L'Heure d'?t?" and "Carlos," he has charted an exciting
path, strongly embracing narrative and character and simultaneously
dealing with the 'fragmentary reality' of life in a global economy.
He also brought a fresh perspective to the problem of politics
after '68, a subject that he revisits in his memoir "A Post-May
Adolescence" (published as a companion book to this volume) and in
his most recent film "Apr?s-Mai." This first English-language book
about Olivier Assayas includes a major essay by Kent Jones, based
on his two decades of correspondence and exchanges of ideas with
the filmmaker, as well as contributions from Assayas and his most
important artistic collaborators. The central part consists of
individual essays on each of his works, written by Chris Chang,
Larry Gross, Howard Hampton, Kristin M. Jones, B. Kite, Glenn
Kenny, Michael Koresky, Alice Lovejoy, Greil Marcus, Geoffrey
O'Brien, Jeff Reichert, Richard Suchenski, and Gina Telaroli.
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