ANTOINE DE GAUDEMAR

Antoine de Gaudemar was born in 1951. He worked as a journalist for the Liberation press agency and went on to work for the newspaper Liberation from 1971 to 1975. He then worked for Antenne 2 and later for TF1’s literary programmes.

He returned to the Liberation newspaper in 1986, where he was successively head of the “books” department, head of the “culture” department, editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief and finally editor-in-chief from October 2002 to December 2006. Author of several television documentaries for the collections “A Century of Writers” (on Patrick Modiano and Drieu La Rochelle) and Empreintes (on Jean-Marie Le Clézio), he directed “Once upon a time…Contempt” in 2008, as part of the collection “A Film & Its Era”, produced by Folamour Productions.

He then directed “Once upon a time… La Dolce Vita” in 2009, “Once upon a time… Vincent, François, Paul and the others” in 2010, “Once upon a time… A Clockwork Orange” (selected at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Classics section) and “Once upon a time… One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” in 2011, “Once upon a time… All about my mother” in 2012 and “Once upon a time…Marius and Jeannette” in 2013. Since 2011, Antoine de Gaudemar has been in charge of the “A film & its era” collection, broadcast on France 5 and Arte, and the editorial manager at Folamour.