Biography
Gilles Marchand is a French screenwriter and film director. Born on 18 June 1963 in Marseille, he studied at the IDHEC film school in Paris, where he met future collaborators including Dominik Moll and Laurent Cantet.
He is best known for his screenplays for films directed by others, including With a Friend Like Harry... (2000), Bon Voyage (2003), Lemming (2005), Eastern Boys (2013), The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015), Only the Animals (2019) and The Night of the 12th (2022). He has also co-written and directed his own films, such as Who Killed Bambi? (2003), which screened out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Marchand has maintained a long professional collaboration with Dominik Moll, co-writing Case 137 (2025) among other projects.
