Were Alan Mak and Jacques Rivette from the same country?
Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette (] ; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine "Cahiers du Cinéma". He made twenty-nine films, including "L'amour fou" (1969), "Out 1" (1971), "Celine and Julie Go Boating" (1974), and "La Belle Noiseuse" (1991). His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times.
Olivier Maulin Olivier Maulin (born 1969 in Alsace) is a French writer. His works have been characterised by humour and satire. His 2006 novel "En attendant le roi du monde" received the Ouest-France Prize at the Étonnants voyageurs festival. The journalist Jérôme Leroy has described Maulin as an "anar de droite", a right-wing anarchist, and thereby grouped him with writers such as François Rabelais, Marcel Aymé, Antoine Blondin and the screenwriter Michel Audiard. Reviewing Maulin's novel "Les Lumières du ciel" for "Le Figaro", Frédéric Beigbeder described Maulin as a "neo-hippie".