Olivier Asselin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.François Houde, "Olivier Asselin: petit budgets, grosses ambitions". Le Nouvelliste, February 10, 2017. He is most noted for his films The Moving Statue (La Liberté d'une statue), which was the winner of the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1991,"La Liberté wins Quebec festival". Ottawa Citizen, February 18, 1991. and The Cyclotron (Le Cyclotron), for which he won the Borsos Competition Award for Best Screenplay at the 2016 Whistler Film Festival.Jordan Pinto, "Before the Streets wins big in Whistler". Playback, December 5, 2016.
He is a professor of art and film history at the Université de Montréal.Mario Cloutier, "Olivier Asselin: le statut de la liberté". La Presse, November 1, 2008. His filmmaking style is marked by the exploration of philosophical and scientific themes, presented in a highly stylized manner that pays tribute to the aesthetic of older periods in film history,Charles-Henri Ramond, "Cyclotron, Le – Film de Olivier Asselin". Films du Québec, February 1, 2017. and has been compared to the styles of Guy Maddin and early Lars von Trier.Martin Gignac, "Le cyclotron: les particules élémentaires d’une romance". Métro, February 14, 2017. Personal life He is married to Lucille Fluet, who has appeared as an actress in all of his films and was a co-writer of several of them.
Filmography The Moving Statue (La Liberté d'une statue) - 1990 The Seat of the Soul (Le siège de l'âme) - 1997 A Sentimental Capitalism (Un capitalisme sentimental) - 2008 The Cyclotron (Le Cyclotron) - 2016
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