Philippe Lioret

Born in Paris in 1955, Lioret started his film career in the 1980's as a sound engineer, working on films like La Lectrice, by Michel Deville, and Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy. In 1993, Lioret directed his first feature, Tombés du Ciel (Fallen from the Sky), starring Jean Rochefort, which premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Since then he has directed seven other films, ranging from romantic comedies to melodramas, as well as a couple of social dramas. Although relatively unknown outside of his own country, he has worked with some of the most coveted French actors in the last fifteen years, like Elsa Zylberstein, Sandrine Bonnaire and Vincent Lindon. His another film, WELCOME, has quickly become one of the highest grossing French films in its native country.

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