Christophe Honoré

Christophe Honoré born 10 April 1970 Carhaix is a French writer and film and theatre director Honoré was born in Carhaix Finistère After moving to Paris in 1995 he wrote articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma He started writing soon after His 1996 book Tout contre Léo Close to Leo talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults he made it into a film in 2002 He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s His first play Les Débutantes was performed at Avignons Off Festival in 1998 In 2005 he returned to Avignon to present Dionysos impuissant in the In Festival with Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel playing the leads A wellknown director he is considered an auteur in French cinema His 2006 film Dans Paris has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague cinema In 2007 Les Chansons damour was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Honoré is openly gay and some of his movies or screenplays among them Les Filles ne savent pas nager Dixsept fois Cécile Cassard and Les Chansons damour deal with gay or lesbian relations His film Plaire aimer et courir vite Sorry Angel about a writer who has contracted HIV in the 1990s won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film in 2018 Honoré has been the screenwriter for some of Gaël Morels films The actors Louis Garrel and Chiara Mastroianni have each had roles in several of his films Honoré has also directed several operas for the stage For the Opéra de Lyon he directed Poulencs Dialogues of the Carmelites in 2013 Debussys Pelléas et Mélisande in 2015 and Verdis Don Carlos in 2018 He also presented his production of Mozarts Così fan tutte at the AixenProvence Festival and the Edinburgh Festival in 2016 and Puccinis Tosca at AixenProvence in 2019 both of these productions adopted a radical approach to traditional works In the summer of 2020 Honorés rehearsals of his stage production of Le Côté de Guermantes based on the third volume of Prousts In Search of Lost Time were interrupted by restrictions to combat the COVID19 epidemic and it became impossible to present it at the ComédieFrançaise as planned With his troupe of actors he decided to make a film about the production and the uncertainties they were now facing and the film Guermantes was released in September 2021