Six degrees

Francois Ozon's film Young & Beautiful will close the Summer International Film Festival at the Grand Cinema, Kowloon, on Tuesday. The provocateur of French cinema's first foray into directing was with Photo de Famille, a 1988 short that featured his brother "killing" his family and arranging their bodies for a group photo. The director said his mother approved, saying, "If you do that in film, you won't do [it] in reality." Ozon was on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival last year, alongside Donnie Darko actor Jake Gyllenhaal and photographer Anton Corbijn …

The acclaimed movie and music video director began his career photographing musicians, having left his native Netherlands aged 24 to shoot his favourite artists in England. Within two weeks of arriving there Corbijn had met and snapped post-punk outfit Joy Division, producing the now iconic tube-station photos of the band he adored. Years later, Corbijn made his directorial debut with Control, a biographical film about the band's late singer, Ian Curtis. A photograph taken by Corbijn has served as the author's portrait on many books by cyberpunk novelist William Gibson …

The science-fiction author, who coined the term "cyberspace" in his 1982 short story Burning Chrome, has rejected notions of his being a modern-day oracle. In his 1984 book Neuromancer, Gibson envisaged the "mass consensual hallucination" of computer networks long before the spread of the internet. But although he created a lexicography for the information age, Gibson didn't have a modem until 1996 and initially wrote on a 1920s typewriter. In 2000, he starred in the biopic No Maps for these Territories, which featured recitations of his writings by the patron saint of tax dodging, Bono …

In 2011, the lead singer of U2 and Nobel Peace Prize nominee was named the most politically effective celebrity of all time by American magazine National Journal. However, Bono's philanthropy and social activism are not appreciated by everyone. In 2005, writer Paul Theroux slammed the Irish do-gooder, along with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, "as mythomaniacs, people who wish to convince the world of their worth". In 1993, Bono duetted with Frank Sinatra on his signature song I've Got You Under My Skin, the Cole Porter classic that was also villainously lip-synced, in the film Gamer, by American actor Michael C. Hall …

The Golden Globe winner, best known for playing loveable serial killer Dexter Morgan, made his television breakthrough as David Fisher, the uptight, gay undertaker in Six Feet Under. The role of repressed mortician was a far cry from the lipstick and leather of the 500 Broadway shows Hall had previously performed in. "Everything I opened up for in [musical] Cabaret," Hall said, "I slammed shut for David." In his final season, now showing in the US, Hall's Dexter is receiving somewhat alternative maternal advice from psychotherapist Dr Evelyn Vogel, played by British screen siren Charlotte Rampling …

The 67-year-old actress began her illustrious career as a model, aged 17, before transitioning to acting. In 1966, her elder sister, Sarah, committed suicide, aged 23. Rampling and her father, wishing to spare her mother the truth, stuck with the story that she had died of a brain haemorrhage. Rampling played the role of the inhibited middlebrow mystery writer, named Sarah in honour of her sister, in the 2003 movie Swimming Pool, directed by Francois Ozon.