About

Known credits:
50
Birthday:
1931-12-03
Place of birth:
Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Website:
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Agnès Guillemot

Overview

Agnès Guillemot was renowned for her collaboration with the Nouvelle Vague directors, having worked on numerous films with both Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.

She edited sixteen films for Godard, beginning with Une femme est une femme, followed by Contempt, Alphaville, Bande à part , Masculin Féminin, Vivre Sa Vie, Weekend, etc. In some cases, she was the sole editor; on others, she worked either with Françoise Collin, Lila Lakshmanan, Dahlia Ezove, Lila Herman, Marguerite Renoir, or Delphine Desfons.

During that same period, Guillemot edited four films for Truffaut, including L’enfant sauvage/The Wild Child and Baisers volés/Stolen Kisses.

In the late 1970’s she edited five films for Jean-Charles Tacchella, including Cousin cousine and Il y a longtemps que je t’aime.

In the 1990’s she was the editor of three films for Catherine Breillat (Sale comme un ange/Dirty Like an Angel, Romance and Parfait amour!/Perfect Love.)

Guillemot also edited films for several other women directors, including Nicole Garcia, Catherine Corsini, Francesca Comencini and Paula Delsol.

“Editing has one marvelous thing—you are alone with the material and you listen. I use many metaphors, metaphors you use when talking about painters and sculptors. They look at a landscape, a stone; the stone inspires them to do this or that. Editing is the same. The material is given by somebody else, but I listen to it afresh. I do not try to make it mine, I try to produce what it can do. The object is inside—it must be made to come out. It is exactly this—I listen, I look a long time with all my being and I extract what the director wants.”

—Agnès Guillemot interviewed in “Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing” by Roger Crittenden.

Known for

Editing

1999 Romance Editing Editor 57
Average
1996 Perfect Love Editing Editor 58
Average
1996 Mémoires d'un jeune con Editing Editor 58
Average
1996 Don't Forget You're Going to Die Editing Editor 59
Average
1994 Le fils préféré Editing Editor 59
Average
1994 Lovers Editing Editor 58
Average
1992 North Editing Editor 58
Average
1991 Dirty Like an Angel Editing Editor 58
Average
1990 Every Other Weekend Editing Editor 58
Average
1988 La lumière du lac Editing Editor N/A
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1987 La Brute Editing Editor 58
Average
1985 Staircase C Editing Editor 58
Average
1984 Dangerous Moves Editing Editor 58
Average
1983 The Trip to Deauville Editing Editor N/A
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1982 Invitation to Travel Editing Editor 58
Average
1982 Véra Editing Editor N/A
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1981 Croque la vie Editing Editor 58
Average
1980 A Story of No Importance Editing Editor 58
Average
1979 Silver Anniversary Editing Editor 58
Average
1977 Blue Country Editing Editor 59
Average
1975 Cousin, Cousine Editing Editor 58
Average
1973 L'Éducation sentimentale Editing Editor 69
Fair
1970 Bed and Board Editing Editor 63
Fair
1970 The Wild Child Editing Editor 63
Fair
1969 Mississippi Mermaid Editing Editor 60
Fair
1969 Les Gauloises bleues Editing Editor 58
Average
1969 Love and Anger Editing Editor 58
Average
1968 Stolen Kisses Editing Editor 65
Fair
1968 The Truce Editing Editor N/A
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1967 Weekend Editing Editor 62
Fair
1967 La Chinoise Editing Editor 62
Fair
1967 Anticipation, or Love in the year 2000 Editing Editor N/A
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1967 The Oldest Profession Editing Editor 58
Average
1967 Made in U.S.A Editing Editor 59
Average
1966 Masculin Féminin Editing Editor 64
Fair
1965 Alphaville Editing Editor 64
Fair
1964 The Married Woman Editing Editor 60
Fair
1964 The Drifting Editing Editor 59
Average
1964 The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers Editing Editor 58
Average
1964 Le Grand Escroc Editing Editor N/A
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1964 Band of Outsiders Editing Editor 67
Fair
1963 Contempt Editing Editor 66
Fair
1963 The Carabineers Editing Editor 59
Average
1963 Ro.Go.Pa.G. Editing Editor 61
Fair
1963 Le Petit Soldat Editing Editor 61
Fair
1962 Vivre Sa Vie Editing Editor 69
Fair
1961 A Woman Is a Woman Editing Editor 64
Fair
1961 Black Earth Editing Editor 58
Average
1960 An Overcooked Steak Editing Editor 58
Average
1951 Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak Editing Editor 58
Average