Damien Odoul's Complete Works Screened at the Cinémathèque française as Director Announces Retirement at 58

The Cinémathèque française in Paris is presenting a full retrospective of Damien Odoul's films, covering the complete body of work of a filmmaker whose cinema has been defined equally by grace, rage and poetry. The director has announced that he is stopping making films at the age of 58. The Paris institution's programme gathers his entire oeuvre for audiences in the French capital. Odoul's filmmaking has been characterised in the coverage as combining formal beauty with fury and a poetic register. The retrospective arrives as a farewell to cinema from the director himself, who confirmed he would no longer direct. The Cinémathèque française, based in Paris, is the venue hosting the integral presentation of his films.