Éric Guirado (born 16 September 1968) is a French

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and

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born in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

Rhône The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...

Career

Éric Guirado started his career as a

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

and his interest in social issues is apparent in the documentary-style of his story-telling. After producing for regional television in France, he directed his first feature film ''From Heaven'' (''Quand Tu Descendras Du Ciel'') in 2003. His most successful film in his home country has been ''

The Grocer's Son ''The Grocer's Son'' (French : ''Le Fils de l'épicier'') is a 2007 French drama film about a family that runs a grocery business in Provence, France; the business includes a single truck that travels the countryside making deliveries to customer ...

'' (''Le Fils de L'Épicier''), a dramatic film set in

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

, France. The film was presented as part of the 2007 Namur Francophone Film Festival.

Filmography

External links

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Review: Le fils de l'épicier (The Grocer's Son)
European Films César Award winners French film directors Mass media people from Lyon 1968 births Living people {{France-film-director-stub