Laurent Cantet

Born June 15, 1961· Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France

† Died April 25, 2024

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Born in the western French town of Melle to school-teacher parents, Cantet first studied photography in Marseille before graduating from Paris’s Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1986, where he met future collaborators such as Gilles Marchand and Robin Campillo. After early work in television and as assistant to Marcel Ophuls, he broke through with the feature Human Resources (1999)…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources