EMMANUEL MOURET

Born in Marseille and trained at La Fémis, Emmanuel Mouret is a French director and screenwriter. His films are comedies of desire and moral hesitation, built on carefully written dialogue that stays close to ordinary speech, in a lineage that runs from Marivaux through Rohmer without ever imitating either. His characters are caught between conflicting attachments and rarely allowed a clean resolution. Mademoiselle de Joncquières adapted Diderot into a chamber film of manipulation and revenge, while Les Choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait multiplied intersecting love stories across a single weekend. Chronique d’une liaison passagère, selected at Cannes, reduced the same question to two people and an agreement they cannot keep.