Career
Appignanesi is best known for the feature film Song Of Songs (2006), starring Nathalie Press, which he directed, co-wrote and co-produced. Made on a tiny budget, the film is a dark study of the intense relationship between a brother and highly religious sister in London"s orthodox Jewish community. The film had a small, arthouse United Kingdom release but received critical acclaim.
The Observer said it "reveals a distinctive and bold new voice in British cinema."
He recently directed and script edited the comedy feature film The Infidel, written by David Baddiel and starring Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Archie Panjabi, Amit Shah and Yigal Naor.
The film was released internationally in Spring 2010, in the United Kingdom with distributor Revolver Entertainment. He has written and directed several short films, most notably Ex Memoria (2006) which also stars Nathalie Press as well as Sara Kestelman in a study of a woman with Alzheimer"s disease, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
And Nine 1/2 Minutes (2003), a romantic comedy starring David Tennant. He lives in London and studied anthropology at King"s College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary and close friend of the novelist Zadie Smith.
He is the son of writers Lisa Appignanesi and Richard Appignanesi.
