Olivier Assayas, the French director, screenwriter and film critic, began his career alongside his father, a noted screenwriter who used the penname Jacques Rémy, and also worked as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. He made his directorial debut in 1986 with Disorder, set among the youth bands in Paris: the themes of generational conflict and teenage alienation recur in his later films. His vast filmography includes: Winter’s Child (1989); Paris Awakens (1991), which stars the cult Nouvelle Vague figure, Jean-Pierre Léaud; Irma Vep (1996), a homage to his passion for the cinema of Hong Kong; Les Destinées (2001); Boarding Gate (2007); Something in the air (2012); Clouds of Sils Maria (2014); and Personal Shopper (2016), which won Assayas the Best Director Award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.