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French screenwriter and film director (1920–1985)

Also known as: Paul Michel Audiard, Pierre Michel Audiard, Мишель Одиар, ميشيل أوديار, 미셸 오디아르, ミシェル・オディアール

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Witty, melancholic prose about drinkers and drifters, as in Un singe en hiver, which Audiard adapted. (AI reason)
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Gritty French crime novels about honor among outlaws in the postwar underworld. (AI reason)
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Picaresque, argot-laden tales of Parisian petty crooks told with comic gusto. (AI reason)
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Sardonic, terse French néo-polar with sharp social irony. (AI reason)
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