Pierre Assouline
Producer · Born April 17, 1953 (73) · Casablanca, Morocco
Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio. As a biographer, he has covered a diverse and eclectic range of subjects, including: Henri Cartier-Bresson, the legendary photographer; Marcel Dassault, the aeronautics pioneer; Gaston Gallimard, the publisher; Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the art dealer; Georges Simenon, the detective novelist and creator of Inspector Maigret. Several of these books have been translated into English and the Henri Cartier-Bresson biography has been translated into Chinese. As a journalist, Assouline has worked for the leading French publications Lire and Le Nouvel Observateur. He also publishes a blog, "La république des livres". Assouline was the editor of La Révolution Wikipédia, a collection of essays by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision. Assouline contributed the preface. On 7 January 2007, Assouline published a blog post criticizing the Wikipedia entry on the Dreyfus Affair. Source: Article "Pierre Assouline" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Biography from TMDB.
- April 17, 1953 (73)
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Producer
- 3 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
What are Pierre Assouline's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
What they feel like to watch
A split, not a type: Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 2
Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 1
Grounded 1 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 1
Gentle 1 · Charged 1 · Intense 1
Steady 2 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 2
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Pierre Assouline's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 3 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Pierre Assouline's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
12 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page; 6 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
De Gaulle vs Churchill : Mémoires de guerre, guerre des mémoires (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Renoir and the Girl with a Blue Ribbon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Lévi-Strauss Century (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Victor Hugo : la face cachée du grand homme (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Le Siècle de Cartier-Bresson (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Le procès Céline (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
The Experiment(2010)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Vanaprastham (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
L.A. Without a Map(1998)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
Conspirators of Pleasure(1996)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
The Marguerite Duras Century (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 11 titles, 10 of them dated from 1996 to 2024.
How do Pierre Assouline's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 58th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 56th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 3 titles divides audiences: 3 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Crowd Pleaser3
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.