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Arnaud Desplechin

French film director and screenwriter (born 1960)

3.80body-of-work score · ranked #292 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
October 31, 1960 · Roubaix
Nationality
France
Work
film director, actor, screenwriter, cinematographer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Arnaud Desplechin
Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Esther Kahn

    2000 · France / United Kingdom · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2000 #1

    1.001 citation
  2. 2
    My Sex Life... or How I Got into an ArgumentComment je me suis disputé…

    1996 · France · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1996 #4 · Sarris's annual top 10 1997 #2 · Kehr's annual top 10 1997 #9

    0.903 citations
  3. 3
    Kings and QueenRois et Reine

    2004 · France · comedy, romance, drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2005 #3 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2004 #6

    0.862 citations
  4. 4
    A Christmas TaleUn conte de Noël

    2008 · France · drama, comedy

    Film Comment year-end poll 2008 #3 · Criterion Collection spine #492

    0.662 citations
  5. 5
    The SentinelLa Sentinelle

    1992 · France · thriller, drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1992 #5

    0.391 citation

Complete filmography

All 17 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.