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name: "Gilles Taurand"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gilles-taurand"
fi1m_id: "gilles-taurand"
imdb_id: "nm0851522"
tmdb_id: 50538
wikidata_id: "Q3106513"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "2 June 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T03:03:18.624997+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gilles Taurand

## Identity

Gilles Taurand

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gilles-taurand
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gilles-taurand
- **IMDb ID:** nm0851522
- **TMDB ID:** 50538
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3106513
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106513, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851522/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/50538

Writer. Born 2 June 1943 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 2 June 1943, Paris, France
- **Active:** 1994–1999
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106513, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851522/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/50538

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Wild Reeds*](https://film.one/film/wild-reeds.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Gilles Taurand is a French screenwriter and writer. Born in Paris in 1943, he began his career as a novelist in the early 1960s before working as a clinical psychologist and teacher. He entered screenwriting in the late 1970s, co-writing *Hôtel des Amériques* (1981) with André Téchiné.

Taurand has collaborated frequently with Téchiné, co-writing *Wild Reeds* (1994), for which he shared a César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation, and later films including *Thieves* (1996). Other credits include *Dry Cleaning* (1997), *The Beautiful Person* (2008), *Farewell, My Queen* (2012) and *Heal the Living* (2016). He received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres distinction in 2004.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Time Regained* (1999), Fi1m 80, Scenario Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/time-regained.md)
- *Wild Reeds* (1994), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/wild-reeds.md)

## Complete filmography (51)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Le Rouge et le Noir* (2026), series, Screenplay, Creator
- *To Live, To Die, To Live Again* (2024), Screenplay
- *The Plague* (2024), series, Screenplay, Creator
- *Along Came Love* (2023), Writer
- *Constance aux enfers* (2023), Writer
- *Woman at Sea* (2023), Writer
- *The Bohemian* (2022), as Dramaturgy
- *Juliette dans son bain* (2022), Scenario Writer
- *Les Particules élémentaires* (2022), Writer
- *Mali Twist* (2022), Screenplay
- *The Man in the Basement* (2021), Screenplay
- *Tout contre elle* (2019), Writer
- *Cannes, le festival libre* (2018), Writer
- *Eva* (2018), Screenplay
- *Heal the Living* (2016), Screenplay
- *Sophie's Misfortunes* (2016), Screenplay
- *Kokoro* (2016), Writer
- *Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad* (2015), Writer
- *Week-ends* (2014), Co-Writer
- *Vandal* (2013), Screenplay
- *Alias Caracalla, au cœur de la Résistance* (2013), series, Script Consultant
- *Bad Seeds* (2012), Screenplay
- *Sister* (2012), Co-Writer
- *Farewell, My Queen* (2012), Writer
- *The Other Dumas* (2010), Screenplay
- *Army of Crime* (2009), Adaptation, Scenario Writer, Dialogue
- *This Night* (2009), Screenplay
- *Welcome Home* (2008), Writer
- *Home* (2008), Writer
- *The Beautiful Person* (2008), Screenplay
- *Lost Paradises* (2008), Writer
- *The Last Mitterrand* (2005), Screenplay
- *Three Dancing Slaves* (2004), as The man from the farm
- *Strayed* (2003), Screenplay
- *24 Hours in the Life of a Woman* (2002), Writer
- *This Is My Body* (2001), Screenplay
- *A Considerable Disturbance* (2000), Screenplay
- *Augustin, King of Kung-Fu* (1999), Writer
- *Time Regained* (1999), Scenario Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/time-regained.md)
- *Stop* (1999), Screenplay
- *Alice and Martin* (1998), Writer
- *Dormez, je le veux!* (1998), Writer
- *Man Is a Woman* (1998), Writer
- *Dry Cleaning* (1997), Screenplay
- *Thieves* (1996), Writer
- *Brothers: Red Roulette* (1995), Writer
- *Wild Reeds* (1994), Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/wild-reeds.md)
- *Molierissimo* (1989), series, Writer
- *Hotel America* (1981), Writer
- *Bandit Rouge*, Screenplay
- *Glenn Gould Lovers*, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2004: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation 1995: César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation (won), for *Wild Reeds*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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