Cédric Klapisch

Cédric Klapisch is a French screenwriter, director and producer for cinema and TV. After graduating from the New York University, he returned to France where his short Ce qui me meut won a number of festival prizes and was followed by his first feature film, Rien du tout, in 1992. The back-to-back success of Le Péril Jeune (The Godd Old Daze, 1994), Chacun cherche son chat (When the Cat’s Away, 1996) and Un Air de famille (Family Resemblances, 1996) cemented is reputation in French cinema. The films that define his international career to date, however, are the “Xavier’s travels” trilogy starting with the very European adventures of Xavier as an Erasmus student in Barcelona- L’Auberge espagnole (Pot Luck, 2002), followed by Les Poupées Russes (Russian Dolls, 2005) and Casse-tête Chinois (Chinese Puzzle, 2013). Klapisch was the artistic director and directed two episodes of the series Dix pour cent (Call my Agent), first broadcasted in October 2015 and renewed for a fourth season broadcasted on French TV in 2020. After Ce qui nous lie (Back to Burgundy, 2017), his feature film Deux moi, starring François Civil and Ana Girardot, was released in France in 2019 and En Corps in 2022. His series Salade grecque (Greek salad) was released on Amazon Prime in 2023.

Klapisch joined us in Brussels for a Q&A in March 2014 to discuss his work and Europe. You can watch it here