Biography

Jean-Michel Frodon was born on September 20, 1953 in Paris, France. He is a writer, known for Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (2014), Bridges of Sarajevo (2014) and Librairie Mollat (2009).

French film critic.

Writes with a pseudonym borrowed from The Lord of the Rings.

2003-9 editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma.

Son of film critic Pierre Billard with whom he wrote a 2 volumes history of french cinema.