Etienne was born in Colombia. In 1985, he arrived in Paris where he studied cinema with a specialization in editing at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais and worked in the Cinarchives 35mm restoration laboratory. In 1991, Etienne moved to Berlin, Germany where he started at the Babelsberg Film Studios as a sound editor and then was the first assistant editor of films such as The Ogre by Volker Schlöndorff (1996), Enemy at the Gates by Jean Jacques Annaud (2000), The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski (2009) and Inglorious Bastards by Quentin Tarantino (2009), among others. Editor of films such as Embrace of the Serpent by Ciro Guerra (2015), Nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film 2016 and Winner of the CICAE Award Quinzaine des Realisateurs at Cannes Film Festival 2015, The Animal's Wife by Victor Gaviria (2016) and Silence of the Guns Documentary by Natalia Orozco (2017), the first ever documentary that opened the Cartagena International Film Festival 2017. He has been Lead Editor of TV series for Fox, Netflix and Amazon. Winner of several editing awards.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Editor, also producer
- 19 on MovieCove · 29 credits in all
What are Etienne Boussac's films like?
Across their 14 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 10
Light 1 · Serious 3 · Dark 6
Grounded 7 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1
Gentle 2 · Charged 4 · Intense 4
A split, not a type: Steady 5 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 10 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 7 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 1
Casual 1 · Engaged 6 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 7
A split, not a type: Resolved 5 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet5
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous8
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 Etienne Boussac's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 14 of their 19 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Etienne Boussac'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
29 credits, 19 with a MovieCove page.
Legionario(2025)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Guest(2025)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all shows
La Suprema (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Memento Mori (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Tomorrow Before After(2023)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
The Rust (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all shows
Pepe Caceres(2022)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all shows
Cabarete(2019)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Crime Diaries: Night Out(2019)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows
Mosh(2019)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Sequestrada(2019)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
El Piedra(2018)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Guerras Ajenas(2016)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Animal's Wife (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
My Mother's Tits (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Isolated (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Embrace of the Serpent(2015)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Eden (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
La Buena Vida - The Good Life (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
The Damned(2013)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Source Code(2011)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Flightplan(2005)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Die vier Gerechten (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Enemy at the Gates(2001)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
A Couch in New York(1996)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
In the Heat of the Sun(1994)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Montmartre on the Seine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)
Career shape
A full career of 19 titles from 1941 to 2024.
Biggest box office
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Highest rated
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Most popular right now
The Guest (2025)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Etienne Boussac's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 76th percentile, the median of all 15; across their 10 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 73rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up8
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
8 of their 19 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved4
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic2
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Mixed8
Reviewers score the pacing 40/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 52, detractors 22. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.
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.
Who does Etienne Boussac work with?
People who share at least 2 of Etienne Boussac's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Andrés Calderón shares the most, 3.
Actors
- Juan Fernando SánchezShared titles: The Guest (2025), Juanpis González - The Series (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Juan Fernando Sánchez
- Sebastian EslavaShared titles: Legionario (2025), Pepe Caceres (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Sebastian Eslava
Composers
- Felipe LinaresShared titles: Legionario (2025), Juanpis González - The Series (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Felipe Linares
Producers
- Andrés CalderónShared titles: Juanpis González - The Series (2022), S.O.Z: Soldiers or Zombies (2021), Crime Diaries: Night Out (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Andrés Calderón
