Background
His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France.
His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France.
Institut des hautes études cinématographiques.
François Weyergans was elected to the Académie française on 26 March 2009, taking the 32nd seat which became vacant with the death of Alain Robbe-Grillet in 2008. He started film studies at the IDHEC (Hautes Études Cinématographiques), where he came to love the films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard, among others He soon began to write for Cahiers du cinéma and directed his first film in 1961, on Maurice Béjart, which led to his expulsion from the school as students were banned from making professional films.
Académie française.