Before turning to cinema, Michel he worked on French television as director of Canal +; he also directed commercials for brands such as Reebok and Bouygues Telecom.
His first feature film was “The Classe Americaine“, made especially for television in 1993; it was not until 1999 that he filmed his first movie for the cinema, it was”Month Amis“which starred his brother Serge.
Michel he also wrote the scripts for the western “Lucky Luke and the Daltons“(2004) and the documentary”Rwanda: History of a Genocide“, from that same year.
Seven years after his first feature film, he wrote and directed, “OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies“(2006), a parody of the spy movies of the 60’s, which had a sequel in 2009 that was titled”OSS 117, lost in Rio …“.
His latest production is the feature film “The Artist“(2011), starring Jean Dujardin Y Bérénice Bejo. The film, shot in black and white and without dialogue, is set in Holywood in 1927 and tells how the advent of talkies changed the careers of two actors, decreeing the decline of one of them (Dujardin) and the meteoric rise of the other (Bejo). “The Artist“He has already received 16 international awards and numerous nominations, including six for the Golden Globe, a prelude to the Oscars.
In his personal life, Michel is with the French actress -born in Buenos Aires- Bérénice Bejo with whom he has two children named Lucien and Gloria.