
Gilles Jacob (born 22 June 1930) is a French film critic and essayist, who served as president of the Cannes Film Festival between 2001 and 2014. Born in Paris, the son of an entrepreneur, Jacob studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, having Claude Chabrol as a schoolmate. At 17 years old he co-founded a short-lived cinema magazine, Raccords. He then collaborated as a film critic and journalist with…

Citizen B
2025

Kiarostami at Work
2023

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

Deauville et le rêve américain
2020

The Legend of the Ugly King
2017

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016

Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014

Mr. X
2014

100 Films and a Funeral
2007

A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002

Femme Fatale
2002

Dead Tired
1994