
Writing
Gilbert Adair
Born 1944-12-29 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003)
Acting credits
7.3The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.
Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
2004
7.7A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
1996
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
The Sorceror's Apprentice
1977
Behind the camera
7.2When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
The Dreamers
2003
5.5Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant.
A Closed Book
2012
5.2A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Klimt
2006
6.6Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
The Carer
2016
6.0A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.
The Territory
1981