Gilles Paquet-Brenner (born 14 September 1974) is a French director and screenwriter. He is the son of the opera singer Ève Brenner. Paquet-Brenner's first feature film, Pretty Things (2001), won an award at the Deauville American Film Festival. In 2007, Paquet-Brenner directed the low-budget, direct-to-DVD, but generally well-received film, Walled In. In 2015, he directed the mystery film Dark Places, starring Charlize Theron and based on the novel by Gillian Flynn. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilles Paquet-Brenner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.