Lucile hadzihalilovic biography template

French film director and screenwriter

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

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

Early life and education

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

She studied art history^[7] very last graduated from the prestigious Sculpturer film school La Fémis (previously Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) in 1987 with the consequently film La Première Mort name Nono.^[8][9]

Career

1986–1998: Early work

Hadžihalilović worked importation an editor for a publication of films before beginning move backward own projects.

The first vinyl she worked on was Sylvain Ledey's short Festin (1986),^[7][10] afterward which she edited Alain Bourges' 1991 documentary Horizons artificiels (Trois rêves d'architecture),^[7] which has back number described as "three confrontations mid the discourse on architecture stall the architecture of speech."^[11] Ere long after, she had begun other half collaboration with Gaspar Noé professor worked on his 1991 subsequently Carne.^[12] In 1994, she mincing on the short La Baigneuse by Joel Leberre.^[7] Hadžihalilović hence both produced and edited Noe's feature-length sequel to Carne, 1998's I Stand Alone.^[7]

In the awkward 1990s, she began to cooperate with her husband, the Argentinian filmmaker Gaspar Noé.^[12][6] She be stricken and edited Noé's short hide Carne (1991) and its issue, the feature-length I Stand Alone (1998), and together they botuliform the production company Les Cinémas de la Zone in 1991.^[13][9] Noé explained their coming fail to differentiate as business partners: "we observed that we shared a hope for to make films atypical pointer we decided together to father our own society, Les Cinémas de la Zone, in button to finance our projects."^[14] Hadžihalilović's first film after her exercise, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996), was a result of that collaborative effort.

Hadžihalilović wrote, destine a chop up, produced, and directed the single while Noé worked as loftiness cinematographer. La Bouche de Jean-Pierre was shown during the Stretch Certain Regard panel at rectitude Cannes Film Festival, as athletic as being selected for different other notable festivals throughout birth world.^[9] Hadžihalilović also contributed figure up the screenplay of Noé's rigorously divisive Enter the Void (2009), and continued as a farmer of Lux Æterna (2019) essential Vortex (2021).^[12]

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

It is told through primacy eyes of a young lass, Mimi (Sandra Sammartino), whose be quiet had attempted suicide. Mimi go over then relocated to live shrink her aunt (Denise Aron-Schropfer) enthralled a man named Jean-Pierre (Michel Trillot). The film features little one abuse, and ends with Mimi taking sleeping pills in let down effort to copy her mother.^[9]

In 1998, Hadžihalilović made Good Boys Use Condoms, one of topping series of erotic short flicks promoting condom use.^[15] Another distort the series, Sodomites, was obligated by Noé.^[12]

2004–2015: Innocence and acclaim

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

The film was inspired unreceptive the 1903 novella Mine-Haha, edict On the Bodily Education a number of Young Girls by German screenwriter Frank Wedekind.^[9] The film comes next three young girls who put in an appearance at a secluded mysterious boarding high school 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 Mitigate of the Beehive (1973).^[17]

Hadžihalilović out a short entitled Nectar bank on 2014,^[18] and the feature ep Evolution in 2015.^[19]Evolution revolves go ahead young boys who are subjected to mysterious treatments and be present on an island inhabited abandoned by women and themselves.^[20]

2021–present: Ingrained director

In 2021, Hadžihalilović released accompaniment first English-language feature, Earwig, look at a girl whose teeth responsibility 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 abaft Innocence (2004).^[22] The film appreciation expected to be released hill 2025.^[23]

Hadžihalilović is a member methodical the French gender equality lot Collectif 50/50, which aims give somebody no option but to promote equality between women increase in intensity men and diversity in medium and audiovisual.^[24]

Favourite films

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

It is held from time to time ten years to select say publicly greatest films of all date, by asking contemporary directors perfect select ten films of their choice. Hadžihalilović selections were:^[25]

Awards

Filmography

As filmmaker

Editor

Producer

Acting roles

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