Gilles Bourdos b 1963 in Nice France is a French film director screenwriter and producer He is best known for his atmospheric thrillers which use troubling themes in contrast with powerful aesthetic imagery He was one of the founders of the French production company Persona Films which produced most of his early work He made his feature film debut at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival with Disparus 1998 a political thriller and love triangle during the Surrealist movement in Paris in 1938 His second critically acclaimed feature Inquietudes 2003 is based on the Ruth Rendell novel A Sight for Sore Eyes and stars Gregoire Colin and Julie Ordon His most recent work and first English language film Afterwards 2008 features Evangeline Lilly John Malkovich and Romain Duris and is based on the French bestseller Et Après by Guillaume Musso Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilles Bourdos licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia