--- name: "Vincent Paronnaud" canonical: "https://film.one/person/vincent-paronnaud" fi1m_id: "vincent-paronnaud" imdb_id: "nm1749112" tmdb_id: 20709 wikidata_id: "Q1890346" roles: ["Director"] born: "1 January 1970" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T22:59:48.525272+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." --- # Vincent Paronnaud ## Identity Vincent Paronnaud - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vincent-paronnaud - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** vincent-paronnaud - **IMDb ID:** nm1749112 - **TMDB ID:** 20709 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1890346 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Paronnaud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1890346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1749112/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20709 Director. Born 1 January 1970 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 1 January 1970, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France - **Also known as:** Winshluss, Венсан Паронно - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Paronnaud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1890346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1749112/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20709 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Persepolis*](https://film.one/film/persepolis.md) (87) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Vincent Paronnaud > Vincent Paronnaud’s dark comic instincts find a productive partner in Marjane Satrapi. We recommend their *Persepolis* warmly: its expressive drawings and tolerance for a young heroine’s foolishness matter more than the occasional rush through her story. A face drawn in a few strokes can still look foolish, and *Persepolis* (2007) allows its young heroine that small indignity. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud let her be contradictory without requiring us to admire every mistake. We laughed at Marjane’s awkwardness because the directors do not insist on giving her a lesson after every embarrassment. The warmth comes from the family and from the freedom she is given to get things wrong. It is a film we recommend readily, with a reservation about its hurried episodes. Under the name Winshluss, Paronnaud developed an underground comics practice marked by macabre humour from the late 1990s. Those comics favour the grotesque and the cruel, which makes the humanity of his work with Satrapi worth noticing. Their partnership involves both writing and directing, with Paronnaud placing particular emphasis on framing and rhythm. In *Persepolis*, the expressive faces make that attention to drawing count for more than visual decoration. His technical contribution deserves attention even when the story being told belongs to his co-director. The compression is less satisfying. Satrapi and Paronnaud adapt her graphic memoirs with a clear understanding of how drawings can keep us close to a character, but some episodes are over before they have had enough time. The family’s warmth carries us through those abrupt passages, though it cannot quite make them feel complete. The film is persuasive enough about these people that spending longer with them would hardly have been a burden. The partnership continued with *Chicken with Plums* (2011), adapting another Satrapi graphic novel through live action with animation elements. Paronnaud’s solo *Hunted* (2020) draws on his comics background for a story concerned with fear and revenge. The harsher material need not be taken as evidence that he is more himself when working alone. His contribution to *Persepolis* is substantial enough without separating it from Satrapi’s. Start there for the humour and the family, with patience for an episode that ends too soon. ## Biography Vincent Paronnaud is a French director and comic book artist, also known by the pseudonym Winshluss. Born in 1970 in La Rochelle, he began in underground comics, publishing in fanzines from 1995 and co-editing the magazine Ferraille with Cizo. He co-directed and co-wrote the animated feature *Persepolis* (2007) with Marjane Satrapi, adapting her graphic novel. The film won the Jury Prize at Cannes and two César Awards. Paronnaud and Satrapi later collaborated on *Chicken with Plums* (2011). He has directed other works including *Hunted* (2021) and shorts under his pseudonym. *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, sonyclassics.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Persepolis* (2007), Fi1m 87, Director, Writer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/persepolis.md) ## Complete filmography (13) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Into the Wonderwoods* (2024), as Pizza (voice) · Director, Screenplay, Comic Book - *Hunted* (2021), Director, Screenplay - *Asylum: Twisted Horror and Fantasy Tales* (2020), Director - *The Death, Dad & Son* (2017), Author, Director - *Territoire* (2015), Director - *Smart Monkey* (2014), Director, Writer - *Chicken with Plums* (2011), Director, Writer - *Once upon a time there was oil* (2010), Director, Writer, Decorator - *Villemolle 81* (2009), Director, Writer - *Raging Blues* (2008), Director, Writer - *Persepolis* (2007), Director, Screenplay, Writer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/persepolis.md) - *Ratz* (2003), series, Scenario Writer, Idea - *Treasure Island*, Director, Screenplay ## Gallery - ![Vincent Paronnaud, Lucie Debay et Arieh Worthalter présentant le film "Hunted" (Vincent Paronnaud, 2021) au Majestic Bastille en novembre 2021.](https://film.one/media/person/99876/gallery-48935e96ab2a.jpg) Vincent Paronnaud, Lucie Debay et Arieh Worthalter présentant le film "Hunted" (Vincent Paronnaud, 2021) au Majestic Bastille en novembre 2021. — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Vincent_Paronnaud%2C_Lucie_Debay_et_Arieh_Worthalter.jpg/1280px-Vincent_Paronnaud%2C_Lucie_Debay_et_Arieh_Worthalter.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Vincent Paronnaud](https://film.one/media/person/99876/gallery-22072195b189.jpg) Vincent Paronnaud — C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Vincent_Paronnaud_%28Winshluss%29_-_Buchmesse_Wien_2019.JPG/1280px-Vincent_Paronnaud_%28Winshluss%29_-_Buchmesse_Wien_2019.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Vincent Paronnaud (ou Winshluss) en 2021.](https://film.one/media/person/99876/gallery-9cfdea677411.jpg) Vincent Paronnaud (ou Winshluss) en 2021. — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Vincent_Paronnaud_2021.jpg/1280px-Vincent_Paronnaud_2021.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Winshluss à La Comédie du livre de Montpellier, 22 mai 2009](https://film.one/media/person/99876/gallery-09151b1a9a3b.jpg) Winshluss à La Comédie du livre de Montpellier, 22 mai 2009 — Dinkley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Winshluss.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Vincent Paronnaud](https://film.one/media/person/99876/gallery-f5f93ee726ab.jpg) Vincent Paronnaud — Image via TMDB - ![Vincent Paronnaud](https://film.one/media/person/99876/gallery-cb69f59ecfd9.jpg) Vincent Paronnaud — Image via TMDB - ![Winshluss (Vincent Paronnaud) at Lucca Comics & Games 2015](https://film.one/media/person/99876/gallery-8b34c7675bb1.jpg) Winshluss (Vincent Paronnaud) at Lucca Comics & Games 2015 — Niccolò Caranti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Winshluss_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2015.JPG/1280px-Winshluss_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2015.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2008: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Persepolis* ### BAFTA Film Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated - 2009: Best Animated Film (nominated), for *Persepolis* - 2009: Best Film Not in the English Language (nominated), for *Persepolis* ### Other awards — 4 won, 4 nominated - BIFA for Best Foreign Independent Film 2008: BIFA for Best Foreign Independent Film (nominated), for *Persepolis* - César Award for Best Adaptation 2008: César Award for Best Adaptation (won), for *Persepolis* - César Award for Best Film 2008: César Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Persepolis* - César Award for Best First Film 2008: César Award for Best First Film (won), for *Persepolis* - Independent Spirit Awards 2008: Best Foreign Film (nominated), for *Persepolis* - European Film Award for Best Film 2007: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Persepolis* - Jury Prize 2007: Jury Prize (won), for *Persepolis* - Sutherland Trophy 2007: Sutherland Trophy (won), for *Persepolis* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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