French screenwriter and director Laurent Tirard, whose best-known works included variations of René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé’s Little Nicholas and Nicolas On Vacation, has died on the age of 57 after an extended sickness.
Tirard was a popular determine within the French movie trade who made 15 options over the course of twenty years.
Additionally they included Molière (2007), starring Romain Duris because the historic playwright; Astérix & Obélix: God Save Britannia (2012) with Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini and Guillaume Gallienne; romantic comedy Up For Love with Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira, costume drama Return Of A Hero (2018), additionally starring Oscar winner Dujardin.
He additionally directed early episodes of hit present Name My Agent!.
“He had a expertise for capturing and retelling human tales with quite a lot of humor and sensibility,” PR company BCG Presse wrote in a launch saying Tirard’s dying on September 5 in Paris, after battling with sickness.
Noting how Tirard had been influenced by the work of Jacques Tati and an excellent admirer of Star Wars, the discharge recounted how the director frolicked within the U.S., pushed by his love of American cinema, learning filmmaking at New York College after which turning into a script reader for Warner Brothers
On his return to France, Tirard obtained a job as a journalist for the cinema journal Studio, by way of which he interviewed plenty of high administrators together with Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese.
He broke into filmmaking in his personal proper with the brief movie De Supply Sûre (2007) which feaured Gad Emaleh within the forged.
His closing movie was the 2022 nun comedy Oh My Goodness! about 5 nuns who enter a biking race with their sights set on the massive money prize to assist renovate their dilapidated convent.