Birthday:
08-10-1968
(56 years)
Birthplace:
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Biography
Renowned and celebrated as one of cinema's best cinematographers Yorick Le Saux graduated with a degree in cinematography from the Parisian film school, La Femis.
From the gorgeously emotional lensing of “I Am Love” – nominated for a Golden Globe in 2011 - to the no-frills documentary style of “Carlos,” – also nominated for a golden globe, as well as winning Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director from the Los Angeles Critic Association in 2009, Le Saux is one of the most adaptable D.Ps in today’s industry.
Yorick has received awards and nominations from the Golden Globes, the European Film Awards, the Cannes, Berlin and Venice Film festivals as well the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
He frequently works with directors such as Olivier Assayas, Luca Guadagnino, Jim Jarmusch, Nicolas Jarecki and François Ozon and has done commercials for an array of clients like Prada, Chanel, Versace and Trussadi.
From the gorgeously emotional lensing of “I Am Love” – nominated for a Golden Globe in 2011 - to the no-frills documentary style of “Carlos,” – also nominated for a golden globe, as well as winning Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director from the Los Angeles Critic Association in 2009, Le Saux is one of the most adaptable D.Ps in today’s industry.
Yorick has received awards and nominations from the Golden Globes, the European Film Awards, the Cannes, Berlin and Venice Film festivals as well the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
He frequently works with directors such as Olivier Assayas, Luca Guadagnino, Jim Jarmusch, Nicolas Jarecki and François Ozon and has done commercials for an array of clients like Prada, Chanel, Versace and Trussadi.
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Swimming Pool
Director of Photography
event2003 star_border 6.5
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A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
Julia
Director of Photography
event2008 star_border 6.7
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An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
A Curtain Raiser
Director of Photography
event2006 star_border 6.5
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Bruno, a young Frenchman, is frustrated by his girlfriend's constant lack of punctuality. He decides to end their relationship the next time she is late again.
Arbitrage
Director of Photography
event2012 star_border 6.3
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A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
Sitcom
Director of Photography
event1998 star_border 6.4
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The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.
Evolution
Director of Photography
event2021 star_border 6
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In EVOLUTION, acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber (PIECES OF A WOMAN) return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history. Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva, to Lena and then Jonas is inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery by Mundruczó and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script by Weber. While generational traumas find new expression in the present, the family in EVOLUTION looks towards a more hopeful future
Gloria Mundi
Director of Photography
event1976 star_border 4.8
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An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.
See the Sea
Director of Photography
event1997 star_border 6.7
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Sasha, a young British woman, is living with her baby daughter at Ile d'Yeu, a peaceful beach community. A stranger appears. Her name is Tatiana, she's passing through, and pitches her tent in Sasha's yard. The two women build an odd rapport, and tension builds as events unfold.
Les parallèles
Director of Photography
event2004 star_border 4.5
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Paris, today. A corrupt businessman, Duchey, returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the turmoil of three individuals.
Only Lovers Left Alive
Director of Photography
event2013 star_border 7.2
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A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Clouds of Sils Maria
Director of Photography
event2014 star_border 6.6
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A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Contact
Director of Photography
event2015
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In 2014, artist Olafur Eliasson and filmmaker Claire Denis connected for the first time to explore and discuss their common fascination with phenomena that have not yet been fully explained by science – such as black holes – and their shared interest in abstraction. This short film by Denis, contemplating tests for Eliasson's work ‘Contact’, is one outcome of that conversation which would eventually lead to their collaboration on Denis's film High Life (2018), in which Eliasson designed the light installations at the films end.
Deception
Director of Photography
event2021 star_border 5.4
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An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.
Truth or Dare
Director of Photography
event1994 star_border 6.3
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Two teen girls and two teen boys play a game of truth or dare. The questions and the challenges deal with sex; it's innocent and harmless, but at each turn, each youth tries to raise the ante. Then, Paul gives a dare to Rose, and the result brings on a sudden and complete silence.
Bed Scenes
Director of Photography
event1998 star_border 6
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Seven brief scenes, each with a couple, explore the surprises and the changes of heart that can occur during sexual encounters. Only one of the seven couples has been in bed together before; several are strangers or new acquaintances. A prostitute and her john, an older woman and a youth who follows her home, two women friends, a gay man with a straight man, a man with distinctive ideas about soap and water, a woman who wants the light left on, and a Spanish-speaking woman with a French-speaking man make for an array of possibilities and unanticipated consequences. The 7 bed scenes are titled: The Black Hole [Le trou noir]; Mr. Clean [Monsieur Propre]; Madame; Heads or Tails [Tête bêche]; The Ideal Man [L'homme idéal]; Love in the Dark [L'amour dans le noir]; and The Virgins [Les puceaux].
Personal Shopper
Director of Photography
event2016 star_border 5.9
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Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Trophy Wife
Director of Photography
event2010 star_border 6.1
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In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acquiescent wife, Suzanne, whose father had founded the factory, takes over management duties during Robert's convalescence.
I Am Love
Director of Photography
event2010 star_border 6.8
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Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Carlos
Director of Photography
event2010 star_border 7
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The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Green Paradise
Director of Photography
event2004
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Lucas, a young sociologist, finds in his home village two friends, Isabelle and Simon. Discovering that they almost got married ten years earlier, he sets out to bring them together again. However, Isabelle is in fact falling in love with Lucas. Written by
Eager Bodies
Director of Photography
event2003 star_border 5.6
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Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous relationship.
Five Times Two
Director of Photography
event2004 star_border 6.5
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As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.
A Bigger Splash
Director of Photography
event2015 star_border 6.2
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An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.
Boarding Gate
Director of Photography
event2007 star_border 4.9
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A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.
The White Line
Producer
event2010
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Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and women. Sylvain in full adolescence, feels the need to get closer to his father. On a whim, both of them leave to join an old friend of Jean, Bob the American, who lives on an isolated ranch. From then on, they will try to apprehend each other, with clumsiness, hesitation and sometimes even violence.
Demonlover
Second Unit Director of Photography
event2002 star_border 5.6
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A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
Late August, Early September
Second Unit Director of Photography
event1999 star_border 5.9
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A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
8 Women
Camera Operator
event2002 star_border 6.9
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Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
All for One
Producer
event2002
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In a closed locker room, rugby players perform the last pre-match rituals. Warming up their souls and bodies, all tense in anticipation of the fight.
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Camera Operator
event2012 star_border 6.9
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An intimate portrait of Brooklyn-based electronic rock band LCD Soundsystem's then-final live show on April 2, 2011, capturing both the exuberant, three-hour farewell concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden and frontman James Murphy's introspective 48 hours surrounding it.
Blitz
Director of Photography
event2024 star_border 5.8
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In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.
Father Mother Sister Brother
Director of Photography
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Three separate stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Each of the three parts takes place in the present, and each in a different country. Father is set in the Northeast U.S., Mother in Dublin, Ireland, and Sister Brother in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies, quiet, observational and non-judgmental. A comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy.
Beach Café
Director of Photography
event2001 star_border 5
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Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown café by the beach. Fouad disdains his fellow Moroccans, calling them lazy, preferring the company of Europeans -- particularly, as Driss later learns -- young European women. Always on the make, Driss offers Fouad a business proposition -- to revamp his establishment and turn it into a proper restaurant with Driss as his business partner. He is later shocked and hurt to learn that Fouad starts to remodel his business but without Driss. Sending out his friends as spies, Driss learns a number of unsettling things about his would-be associate.
Only the Night
Director of Photography
event2005 star_border 3.8
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A video library clerk becomes obsessed with a sleepwalking woman and takes it upon himself to save her from catastrophe.
High Life
Director of Photography
event2018 star_border 5.7
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A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
The Invisible Woman
Producer
event2009 star_border 4.1
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Once assuming people ignored her because they weren't interested, Lili begins to suspect that she might be literally invisible.
You, Me and Us
Associate Producer
event2012 star_border 5.8
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Aya and Louis separated a long time ago. Their little girl, Lina, is now 7 years old. Today, Aya lives with Victor, with whom she’d like to have a baby. Louis is with Gaëlle, who’s his girlfriend but nothing more. Through nine secret meetings organised by Aya, the film tells the story of how a woman and a man, torn between romantic charades and the quest for a «permanent» harmony, take a fresh start at being lovers.
Non-Fiction
Director of Photography
event2018 star_border 5.5
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Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.
The Singer
Director of Photography
event2006 star_border 6.1
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Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest.
Little Women
Director of Photography
event2019 star_border 7.9
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Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Wasp Network
Director of Photography
event2020 star_border 6
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Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Making of 'Demonlover'
Director
event2003
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Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesied the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient Demonlover, a chilling exploration of the nexus between sex and violence available at the click of a button.
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Director
event2019
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A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.
Début
Director of Photography
event2006
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The last few minutes before two teenagers switch from childhood to adulthood, having sex for the first time. Outdoors, in the snow and under the January sun.
Thousand Suns
Producer
event2005
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Yann and Lena are brother and sister, but they don’t realize it. Meanwhile, Yann wants to get closer to her…
A Summer Dress
Director of Photography
event1996 star_border 7
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It's summer. Sébastien loves the singer Sheila. Lucia loves boys. As for Frédéric, all he wants to do is work on his tan.
High Pain Management
Director of Photography
event1999
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Laurent, twenty, found, thanks to his father, a first job: security agent in a sports shop. The arrival of the young man disrupts his superior, Thierry, who immediately takes aversion.
At the Sea
Director of Photography
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After a long rehabilitation, Laura returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind. Now she is forced to face the following next chapter of her life without the career that gave her fame, fortune and, most importantly, identity.
Snow White
Director of Photography
event2010 star_border 5.5
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To speak of that ballet is very difficult because the theme is so popular as a fairy tale, adapted by Perrault from German folklore and then recuperated from the same folklore by the Grimm brothers, and what's more turned into an unforgettable film by Walt Disney. Angelin Preljocaj was thus trying to break a mould in which that character and her story had been cast seemingly for ever. And it is a success. Because first the setting, the stage direction are very interesting and rich. Rich are the costumes. Rich are the main ideas of the setting like the enormous magic mirror coming down from the sky, or like the deep underground mine turned into a vertical surface on which the seven dwarfs are dancing like dragon-flies on their strings.
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Director of Photography
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Russia, in the early 1990’s is the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse. In a new world that promises freedom and flirts with chaos, a young artist-turned-TV producer, Vadim Baranov, unexpectedly becomes the spin doctor of a promising member of the FSB (ex-KGB), Vladimir Putin.
We Are Who We Are
Director of Photography (3 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.9
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Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.
Irma Vep
Director of Photography (8 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.7
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Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent film classic, “Les Vampires.” Set against the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, Mira struggles as the distinctions between herself and the character she plays begin to blur and merge.
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