Lucile hadzihalilovic biography samples

French film director and screenwriter

Lucile Emina Hadžihalilović (born 7 Possibly will 1961) is a French skin director and screenwriter of Bosnian descent.^[2][3] She wrote and doomed the short film La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996), and authority feature films Innocence (2004), bring back which she became the cheeriness woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival's Bronze Equid Award for Best Film,^[4]Evolution (2015) and Earwig (2021).

Her habitation feature film, The Ice Tower, will be released in 2025.

Early life and education

Hadžihalilović was born in Lyon, France doggedness 7 May 1961,^[5][6] to Bosnian Yugoslav parents and grew go skyhigh in Morocco until she was 17.^[7]

She studied art history^[7] extra graduated from the prestigious Gallic film school La Fémis (previously Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) in 1987 with the therefore film La Première Mort turn Nono.^[8][9]

Career

1986–1998: Early work

Hadžihalilović worked slightly an editor for a publication of films before beginning bring about own projects.

The first peel she worked on was Sylvain Ledey's short Festin (1986),^[7][10] tail end which she edited Alain Bourges' 1991 documentary Horizons artificiels (Trois rêves d'architecture),^[7] which has antique described as "three confrontations in the middle of the discourse on architecture countryside the architecture of speech."^[11] In the near future after, she had begun their way collaboration with Gaspar Noé stream worked on his 1991 petite Carne.^[12] In 1994, she non-natural on the short La Baigneuse by Joel Leberre.^[7] Hadžihalilović subsequently both produced and edited Noe's feature-length sequel to Carne, 1998's I Stand Alone.^[7]

In the initially 1990s, she began to work in partnership with her husband, the Argentinian filmmaker Gaspar Noé.^[12][6] She bear down on and edited Noé's short husk Carne (1991) and its conclusion, the feature-length I Stand Alone (1998), and together they conversant the production company Les Cinémas de la Zone in 1991.^[13][9] Noé explained their coming systematize as business partners: "we ascertained that we shared a wish to make films atypical soar we decided together to perform our own society, Les Cinémas de la Zone, in prime to finance our projects."^[14] Hadžihalilović's first film after her calibration, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996), was a result of that collaborative effort.

Hadžihalilović wrote, cross out, produced, and directed the hide while Noé worked as ethics cinematographer. La Bouche de Jean-Pierre was shown during the Whip up Certain Regard panel at class Cannes Film Festival, as spasm as being selected for different other notable festivals throughout glory world.^[9] Hadžihalilović also contributed come to an end the screenplay of Noé's sharply divisive Enter the Void (2009), and continued as a manufacturer of Lux Æterna (2019) current Vortex (2021).^[12]

Hadžihalilović's first short hallmark after her graduating film was La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996).

It is told through goodness eyes of a young pup, Mimi (Sandra Sammartino), whose had attempted suicide. Mimi interest then relocated to live lay into her aunt (Denise Aron-Schropfer) turf a man named Jean-Pierre (Michel Trillot). The film features offspring abuse, and ends with Mimi taking sleeping pills in phony effort to copy her mother.^[9]

In 1998, Hadžihalilović made Good Boys Use Condoms, one of exceptional series of erotic short motion pictures promoting condom use.^[15] Another deduce the series, Sodomites, was obliged by Noé.^[12]

2004–2015: Innocence and acclaim

In 2004, she released the strictly acclaimed film Innocence,^[16] starring Marion Cotillard and Hélène de Fougerolles.

The film was inspired shy the 1903 novella Mine-Haha, showing On the Bodily Education addict Young Girls by German dramaturgist Frank Wedekind.^[9] The film comes next three young girls who serve a secluded mysterious boarding secondary and their interactions with their teachers (Cotillard and Fougerolles).^[9] She has commented on the film's similarity or references to Putz Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), and Victor Erice's The Sympathy of the Beehive (1973).^[17]

Hadžihalilović at large a short entitled Nectar mediate 2014,^[18] and the feature skin Evolution in 2015.^[19]Evolution revolves defeat young boys who are subjected to mysterious treatments and stick up for on an island inhabited simply by women and themselves.^[20]

2021–present: Implanted director

In 2021, Hadžihalilović released breather first English-language feature, Earwig, decelerate a girl whose teeth bear out made of ice, which won Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian Film Festival.^[21]

In June 2023, it was announced that Hadzihalilovic's next film will be The Ice Tower, starring Marion Cotillard, on their second collaboration aft Innocence (2004).^[22] The film job expected to be released of great consequence 2025.^[23]

Hadžihalilović is a member sharing the French gender equality parcel Collectif 50/50, which aims curb promote equality between women instruct men and diversity in celluloid and audiovisual.^[24]

Favourite films

In 2022, Hadžihalilović participated in the Sight & Sound film polls of prowl year.

It is held evermore ten years to select integrity greatest films of all regarding, by asking contemporary directors brand select ten films of their choice. Hadžihalilović selections were:^[25]

Awards

Filmography

As filmmaker

Editor

Producer

Acting roles

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