Christophe Honoré

Christophe Honoré

Birthdate
April 10, 1970 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Carhaix, Brittany, France
Known For
Directing

Details

Birthdate
April 10, 1970 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Carhaix, Brittany, France
Known For
Directing

Biography

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 Avignon's 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 well-known 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 d'amour 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, Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard and Les Chansons d'amour) 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 Morel's 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 Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 2013, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 2015, and Verdi's Don Carlos in 2018. He also presented his production of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Edinburgh Festival in 2016, and Puccini's Tosca at Aix-en-Provence in 2019; both of these productions adopted a radical approach to traditional works.

In the summer of 2020 Honoré's rehearsals of his stage production of Le Côté de Guermantes, based on the third volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, were interrupted by restrictions to combat the COVID-19 epidemic and it became impossible to present it at the Comédie-Française 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.

Christophe Honoré's LGBTQ+ Titles

Sorry Angel
Sorry Angel
Director
Love Songs
Love Songs
Director
Three Dancing Slaves
Three Dancing Slaves
Writer
Man at Bath
Man at Bath
Director
Like Cattle Towards Glow
Like Cattle Towards Glow

Acting (11)

2022
Winter Boy as Claude Ronis
2021
Guermantes
2021
C ce soir, le débat as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2012
Square as Self (1 episode)
2011
Sagat as Self
2008
Sunny Spells as Photographe
2008
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as Self
2004
Kulturplatz as Self (1 episode)
2003
Un film et son époque as Self (1 episode)
2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self

Directing (24)

2024
Le ciel de Nantes • Director
• Director
2024
Marcello Mio • Director
• Director
2022
Winter Boy • Director
• Director
2021
Guermantes • Director
• Director
2021
Ballade de Melody Nelson • Director
• Director
2020
From My Home to Yours • Director
• Director
2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing • Director
• Director
2019
On a Magical Night • Director
• Director
2018
Sorry Angel • Director
• Director
2016
Sophie's Misfortunes • Director
• Director
2014
Metamorphoses • Director
• Director
2011
Beloved • Director
• Director
2010
Man at Bath • Director
• Director
2009
Making Plans for Lena • Director
• Director
2009
Angelo, tyran de Padoue
• Director
• Stage Director
2008
The Beautiful Person • Director
• Director
2008
Hotel Kuntz • Director
• Director
2007
Love Songs • Director
• Director
2006
In Paris • Director
• Director
2004
My Mother • Director
• Director
2002
Close to Leo • Director
• Director
2002
Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard • Director
• Director
2000
Nous deux • Director
• Director

Production (1)

2015
Like Cattle Towards Glow • Associate Producer
• Associate Producer

Writing (27)

2024
Le ciel de Nantes • Writer
• Writer
2024
Marcello Mio • Writer
• Writer
2022
Winter Boy • Screenplay
• Screenplay
2022
The World of Yesterday • Writers' Assistant
• Writers' Assistant
2021
Guermantes • Screenplay
• Screenplay
2019
On a Magical Night • Screenplay
• Screenplay
2018
Sorry Angel • Writer
• Writer
2016
Sophie's Misfortunes • Screenplay
• Screenplay
2015
Two Friends • Screenplay
• Screenplay
2014
Metamorphoses • Writer
• Writer
2011
Let My People Go ! • Writer
• Writer
2011
Beloved • Writer
• Writer
2010
Man at Bath • Writer
• Writer
2009
Making Plans for Lena • Writer
• Writer
2008
The Beautiful Person • Screenplay
• Screenplay
2008
Sunny Spells • Writer
• Writer
2008
Hotel Kuntz • Writer
• Writer
2007
Love Songs • Screenplay
• Screenplay
2007
After Him • Scenario Writer
• Scenario Writer
2006
In Paris • Writer
• Writer
2004
• Writer
2004
My Mother • Writer
• Writer
2002
Novo • Writer
• Writer
2002
Close to Leo • Novel
• Novel
2002
Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard • Screenplay
• Screenplay
2000
Girls Can't Swim • Writer
• Writer
2000
Nous deux • Writer
• Writer