Laurent Firode - Details

Biography

Laurent Firode started his film career at an early age with animation films shot on Super 8. After completing his language studies in Arabic and Chinese, Firode tried his hand at some fifty or so institutional films and numerous shorts. He then directed seven more shorts, Le Mort du Chanteur de Mexico (1995), Super Bon Prix (1996), Le Cri (1996), La Nuit est Belle (1997), La Cite Raymond-Queneau (1997), Les Astres (1997), and Les Menteurs (1998). He subsequently worked as a writer on two full-length features, one of them, a police comedy, and the other a made-for-television film, Striptease. Happenstance marks his first feature directorial debut.

Filmography

Features

Happenstance (Le Battement D'Ailes du Papillon) 2000


Shorts

La Mort du Chanteur de Mexico 1995
Super Bon Prix 1996
Le Cri 1996
La Nuit est Belle 1997
La Cite Raymond - Queneau 1997
Les Astres 1997
Les Menteurs 1998

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