{"id":8704785,"date":"2026-03-27T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=8704785"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:21:49","slug":"author-talk-guillaume-gallienne","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/author-talk-guillaume-gallienne\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Talk: Guillaume Gallienne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>The Mist Drinker<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Le Buveur de brume<\/em>, Stock, 2025), he is meant to spend the night at the National Museum of Tbilisi, but instead finds himself expected at the National Gallery, where the portrait of his great-grandmother, Princess Melita Cholokashvili\u2014known as Babou\u2014has been relocated. There, he begins a dialogue with his Georgian heritage, passed down through Babou, a radiant muse of Georgia\u2019s literary scene in the early 20th century, and his beloved grandmother Ca\u00ef, his childhood accomplice. By telling their stories, he revisits\u2014with humor and tenderness\u2014the roots of his own identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other event<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af-chicago.org\/events\/film-screening-les-gar%C3%A7ons-et-guillaume-%C3%A0-table-me-myself-and-mum\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.af-chicago.org\/events\/film-screening-les-gar%C3%A7ons-et-guillaume-%C3%A0-table-me-myself-and-mum\/\">April 23 &#8211; Film Screening: <em>Les gar\u00e7ons et Guillaume, \u00e0 table !<\/em> (<em>Me, Myself and Mum<\/em>)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-guillaume-gallienne\">About the author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Guillaume Gallienne is the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comedie-francaise.fr\/fr\/artiste\/guillaume-gallienne\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.comedie-francaise.fr\/fr\/artiste\/guillaume-gallienne\">513th member of the Com\u00e9die-Fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/strong>, the historic theater company founded in 1680 following the death of <strong>Moli\u00e8re<\/strong>. A two-time recipient of the <strong>Moli\u00e8re Awards<\/strong>, he has performed nearly fifty roles on stage. His autobiographical stage production <em>Les Gar\u00e7ons et Guillaume, \u00e0 table !<\/em> (<em>Me, Myself and Mum<\/em>) was adapted into a film in 2013, propelling him to the forefront of French cinema. The film earned him widespread acclaim, including <strong>five C\u00e9sar Awards<\/strong>, among them Best Film, Best First Film, and Best Actor. On screen, Gallienne has collaborated with leading filmmakers such as <strong>Sofia Coppola<\/strong> (<em>Marie Antoinette<\/em>), <strong>Dani\u00e8le Thompson<\/strong> (<em>Fauteuils d\u2019orchestre<\/em>, <em>C\u00e9zanne et moi<\/em>), <strong>Jalil Lespert <\/strong>(<em>Yves Saint Laurent<\/em>), <strong>Alexandre Astier<\/strong> (<em>Kaamelott<\/em>), and <strong>Wes Anderson<\/strong> (<em>The French Dispatch<\/em>), among others. For a decade, he brought literary works to life on air with his program <em>\u00c7a ne peut pas faire de mal<\/em> on France Inter. In 2018, he was Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. In 2025, he published his first novel, <strong><em>Le Buveur de brumes<\/em><\/strong>, a work inspired by his Georgian roots and childhood memories.<strong>Guillaume Gallienne<\/strong>&nbsp;is an actor, screenwriter and film director. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is featured in the upcoming films&nbsp;<em>Bazaar<\/em>&nbsp;(2026) by R\u00e9mi Bezan\u00e7on and <em>Apr\u00e8s<\/em> (2026) by Kirill Serebrennikov. With the Com\u00e9die-Fran\u00e7aise, he is a part of Ivo Van Hove\u2019s production of&nbsp;<em>Hamlet<\/em>&nbsp;and is in Moli\u00e8re\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Le Malade imaginaire,<\/em>&nbsp;directed by Claude Stratz. He is also currently working on an animated adaptation of the French classic&nbsp;<em>Cyrano de Bergerac<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-hugo-pinatel\">About the moderator <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hugo Pinatel<\/strong>&nbsp;is the artistic director at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelier-languefrancaise.fr\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.atelier-languefrancaise.fr\/\">Atelier de la langue fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/strong>. He has written several theatrical interpretations, including&nbsp;<em>Sade, le g\u00e9nie du mal,<\/em>&nbsp;dedicated to the Marquis de Sade and his literary posterity;&nbsp;<em>Po\u00e9sie et r\u00e9sistance,<\/em>&nbsp;relating the epic of French resistance poets under the Nazi occupation; and&nbsp;<em>Heureux qui comme Ulysse<\/em>, exploring the mysteries of Homer\u2019s Odyssey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8731278,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-8704785","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Author Talk: Guillaume Gallienne - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Join the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Chicago, in partnership with L\u2019atelier de la langue fran\u00e7aise, for a special conversation on April 23, 2026 with acclaimed French actor, screenwriter, and director Guillaume Gallienne.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/author-talk-guillaume-gallienne\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Author Talk: Guillaume Gallienne - 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