Florent-Emilio Siri (born 2 March 1965) is a French film director and
screenwriter born in Lorraine. Siri studied cinema at the Sorbonne
University and ESRA in Paris. Florent Siri is also a noted music video
director, particularly in his home country of France. He has worked
with such bands as IAM, Alliance Ethnik, and Wu-Tang Clan, among
others.Siri began his feature film career with the 1998 social film
Une minute de silence (one minute of silence) and continued in 2002
with the action film Nid de guêpes (The Nest). He then went on to
serve as director of two critically acclaimed and highly successful
Splinter Cell games at French-based video game developer Ubisoft,
titled Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Chaos
Theory.Following the underground success of his first feature film,
Siri's directorial style caught the eye of actor Bruce Willis, who
asked Siri to direct his big-budget 2005 action thriller Hostage.
While not a big commercial success, the film earned considerable
critical praise of Siri's slick direction, calling it "an art house
version of the Die Hard films."In 2007, he released a film called
L'Ennemi intime (Intimate Enemies) treating on the personal aspect and
psychological effects on individual personalities of the Algerian War.
It was the first film depicting the use of napalm by the French Army
during the 1954-1962 conflict.
screenwriter born in Lorraine. Siri studied cinema at the Sorbonne
University and ESRA in Paris. Florent Siri is also a noted music video
director, particularly in his home country of France. He has worked
with such bands as IAM, Alliance Ethnik, and Wu-Tang Clan, among
others.Siri began his feature film career with the 1998 social film
Une minute de silence (one minute of silence) and continued in 2002
with the action film Nid de guêpes (The Nest). He then went on to
serve as director of two critically acclaimed and highly successful
Splinter Cell games at French-based video game developer Ubisoft,
titled Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Chaos
Theory.Following the underground success of his first feature film,
Siri's directorial style caught the eye of actor Bruce Willis, who
asked Siri to direct his big-budget 2005 action thriller Hostage.
While not a big commercial success, the film earned considerable
critical praise of Siri's slick direction, calling it "an art house
version of the Die Hard films."In 2007, he released a film called
L'Ennemi intime (Intimate Enemies) treating on the personal aspect and
psychological effects on individual personalities of the Algerian War.
It was the first film depicting the use of napalm by the French Army
during the 1954-1962 conflict.
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