Biographie

Son of Jacques Rémy.

His ten favorite films are 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Gospel According to St Matthew (1964), Ludwig (1973), Napoleon (1927), Playtime (1967), A Man Escaped (1956), The Mirror (1975), La Règle du jeu (1939), The Tree of Life (2011), and Van Gogh (1991).

Was one of the first European film critics to pay close attention to the new cinema emerging from Asia.

Split with his longtime partner Mia Hansen-Løve in 2016. They have one daughter. Despite numerous mentions in the media referring to them as husband and wife, Hansen-Løve stated in an interview with The Final Cut in 2017 that they had never been married.

Despises TV.

I like the adventure of making films. And the adventure of making films has to do with the capacity you have of listening to your guts.

Ultimately, what I am most interested in is what contradicts what I have written because that's exactly where real life moves into the film.

I think that it's important to understand, intuitively understand, what you are doing. But when you are doing it you must follow instinct. There has to be a certain level of risk, creating images, characters, emotions, it involves something a little brutal. You must be prepared to go in areas where you lose control.

When I started making films, the people I was hanging out with, the scene in Paris at the time was very much musicians. So once in a while it pops up and I use it as a background. Because there are moments in life when you just have to say hello to your old friends.

Sils Maria (2014) deals with an actress, who has to navigate through those different layers of reality - it is pretty much a portrait of Juliette Binoche, as she is today, not a movie with Binoche, but a movie about her. She really brings a lot of herself into this character, so it has fairly deep roots.