Anne Fontaine
Nacimiento : 1959-07-15, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Historia
Anne Fontaine (born in Luxembourg, 1959) is a filmmaker and screenwriter who used to be an actor. She lives and works in France.
Born Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral organist. In adolescence she moved to Paris and trained in dance with Joseph Russillo while continuing her academic education, including philosophy. Her husband is Philippe Carcassonne, the film producer, and they have an adopted son who was born in Vietnam.
While still dancing, she was picked by Robert Hossein to play Esmeralda in a 1980 theatrical production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and around this time started to use the name Anne Fontaine. She continued with acting and became known for her roles in comedies like Si ma gueule vous plaît... (1981) and P.R.O.F.S.(1985). An opportunity to be assistant director came with a 1986 stage version of Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) at the Renaud-Barrault theatre.
Fontaine's first project as solo director, Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général (Love Affairs Usually End Badly), won the 1993 Prix Jean Vigo (prize). In 1995, she worked with her brother on the comic Augustin. Two years later, she wrote and directed the successful Nettoyage à Sec (Dry Cleaning). This won the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival 1997 and is generally considered a milestone on Fontaine's way to becoming "an important figure in contemporary French cinema".
In 1999 the character Augustin (Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc) re-appeared in Fontaine's film Augustin, Roi Du Kung-Fu (Augustin, King of Kung-Fu). Comment j'ai tué mon père (How I Killed My Father) was released in 2001, and Nathalie... followed in 2003. The 2005 film, Entre Ses Mains (In His Hands) has been widely described as a thriller: an "intimate thriller" according to Fontaine herself. A third Augustin film, Nouvelle chance (also known as Oh La La) was released in 2006. Then came La fille de Monaco (The Girl From Monaco) in 2008 and Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel), her biopic of Coco Chanel, in 2009.
Fontaine's work is not easily categorised, though the phrase "psychological drama" is often used. She told a UK newspaper, "I try to work on my characters' blind side, in a kind of Freudian way: to ask, 'What are the things about themselves that they're unaware of?' I'm fascinated by the irony of fate, when something goes into a skid. All my stories have an element of cruelty in them."
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Screenplay
Follows the boundary-pushing Rubinstein as she selects Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.
Director
Follows the boundary-pushing Rubinstein as she selects Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.
Director
Un ex presidente francés, Nicolás, decide persuadir a otro, François, para que hagan campaña juntos para volver al primer plano de la política.
Screenplay
Tres policías parisinos están acusados de llevar a un extraño de regreso a la frontera. Sin embargo, Virginie se da cuenta de que su prisionero probablemente será asesinado al regresar a su país y, por lo tanto, intenta convencer a sus compañeros oficiales de que lo liberen.
Director
Tres policías parisinos están acusados de llevar a un extraño de regreso a la frontera. Sin embargo, Virginie se da cuenta de que su prisionero probablemente será asesinado al regresar a su país y, por lo tanto, intenta convencer a sus compañeros oficiales de que lo liberen.
Screenplay
Claire es una joven que trabaja en el hotel de su difunto padre, que ahora dirige su madrastra Maud. De gran belleza, Claire provoca sin querer unos celos incontrolables en Maud cuando su joven amante cae rendido ante los encantos de su hijastra. Maud decide entonces desprenderse de Claire, pero ésta encontrará refugio en una granja donde tendrá la oportunidad de olvidarse de la estricta educación que ha recibido conociendo a siete príncipes.
Director
Claire es una joven que trabaja en el hotel de su difunto padre, que ahora dirige su madrastra Maud. De gran belleza, Claire provoca sin querer unos celos incontrolables en Maud cuando su joven amante cae rendido ante los encantos de su hijastra. Maud decide entonces desprenderse de Claire, pero ésta encontrará refugio en una granja donde tendrá la oportunidad de olvidarse de la estricta educación que ha recibido conociendo a siete príncipes.
Self
Cuando Alice Guy completa su primera película en París en 1896, no solo fue la primera mujer cineasta, sino una de las primeras en hacer una película de ficción "El hada de las coles".
Writer
La historia gira en torno a Martin Clément, nacido Marvin Bijou, quien escapa de su pequeña y provinciana ciudad de origen y de su familia. Contará su historia a través de una pieza de teatro que se convertirá en todo un éxito crítico de la escena parisina.
Director
La historia gira en torno a Martin Clément, nacido Marvin Bijou, quien escapa de su pequeña y provinciana ciudad de origen y de su familia. Contará su historia a través de una pieza de teatro que se convertirá en todo un éxito crítico de la escena parisina.
Dialogue
Narra la historia real de unas monjas polacas embarazadas tras ser violadas por las tropas rusas tras terminar la II Guerra Mundial. Agosto de 1945. Un monasterio cerca de Varsovia (Polonia) alberga un oscuro secreto. Mathilde Beaulieu es una joven médico enviada por la Cruz Roja con el fin de garantizar la repatriación de los prisioneros franceses heridos en la frontera entre Alemania y Polonia. Pero la sorpresa llega cuando descubre que una gran parte de las hermanas del convento están embarazadas por soldados del Ejército Rojo. Aunque Mathilde es inexperta, deberá aprender a sacar adelante esta inusual situación y ayudar a las hermanas.
Adaptation
Narra la historia real de unas monjas polacas embarazadas tras ser violadas por las tropas rusas tras terminar la II Guerra Mundial. Agosto de 1945. Un monasterio cerca de Varsovia (Polonia) alberga un oscuro secreto. Mathilde Beaulieu es una joven médico enviada por la Cruz Roja con el fin de garantizar la repatriación de los prisioneros franceses heridos en la frontera entre Alemania y Polonia. Pero la sorpresa llega cuando descubre que una gran parte de las hermanas del convento están embarazadas por soldados del Ejército Rojo. Aunque Mathilde es inexperta, deberá aprender a sacar adelante esta inusual situación y ayudar a las hermanas.
Director
Narra la historia real de unas monjas polacas embarazadas tras ser violadas por las tropas rusas tras terminar la II Guerra Mundial. Agosto de 1945. Un monasterio cerca de Varsovia (Polonia) alberga un oscuro secreto. Mathilde Beaulieu es una joven médico enviada por la Cruz Roja con el fin de garantizar la repatriación de los prisioneros franceses heridos en la frontera entre Alemania y Polonia. Pero la sorpresa llega cuando descubre que una gran parte de las hermanas del convento están embarazadas por soldados del Ejército Rojo. Aunque Mathilde es inexperta, deberá aprender a sacar adelante esta inusual situación y ayudar a las hermanas.
Screenplay
Martin es un antiguo burgués bohemio parisino que se ha instalado en un pequeño pueblo de Normandía como panadero local. Es un apasionado de las obras de Gustave Flaubert. Cerca de él se instala una pareja de británicos llamados Gemma y Charles Bovery. No sólo tienen nombre similares a los de la novela 'Madame Bovary' sino que tienen comportamientos similares a los de la obra de Flaubert.
Director
Martin es un antiguo burgués bohemio parisino que se ha instalado en un pequeño pueblo de Normandía como panadero local. Es un apasionado de las obras de Gustave Flaubert. Cerca de él se instala una pareja de británicos llamados Gemma y Charles Bovery. No sólo tienen nombre similares a los de la novela 'Madame Bovary' sino que tienen comportamientos similares a los de la obra de Flaubert.
Director
Una historia que mezcla el amor, la lujuria y el poder de la amistad, trazando las relaciones pasionales de Liz y Roz, dos amigas de la infancia que se enamoran del hijo de la otra.
Screenplay
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...
Director
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...
Author
Catherine, una doctora de éxito, sospecha que su marido David, un guapo profesor de música, la engaña. Con el fin de acallar sus sospechas y temores, contrata a Chloe, una joven irresistible que ponga a prueba la fidelidad de David. Los tórridos relatos de Chloe sobre sus encuentros con David embarcan a Catherine en un viaje de redescubrimiento sexual y sensual.
Screenplay
Se centra en los años de aprendizaje de la gran diseñadora de moda y demuestra como una joven de una familia muy modesta, autodidacta pero dotada de una personalidad excepcional, llega a ser un símbolo de éxito y libertad, creando la imagen de la mujer moderna después de haberlo sido ella misma.
Director
Se centra en los años de aprendizaje de la gran diseñadora de moda y demuestra como una joven de una familia muy modesta, autodidacta pero dotada de una personalidad excepcional, llega a ser un símbolo de éxito y libertad, creando la imagen de la mujer moderna después de haberlo sido ella misma.
Writer
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?
Director
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?
Scenario Writer
How do you bring together such different people as Odette Saint-Gilles, an aging, forgotten actress living in a welfare home, Augustin Dos Santos, a pool boy at the Ritz Hotel, Bettina Fleischer, the heroine of a popular soap, and Raphael, a young, disturbingly handsome man? Together, will they have a last chance to make their dreams come true?
Director
How do you bring together such different people as Odette Saint-Gilles, an aging, forgotten actress living in a welfare home, Augustin Dos Santos, a pool boy at the Ritz Hotel, Bettina Fleischer, the heroine of a popular soap, and Raphael, a young, disturbingly handsome man? Together, will they have a last chance to make their dreams come true?
Director
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.
Writer
Catherine (Fanny Ardant), una atractiva ginecóloga de mediana edad y casada desde hace 25 años, descubre un día que su marido (Gérard Depardieu) la engaña. Decide entonces vengarse y, para ello, contrata a Nathalie (Emmanuelle Béart), una prostituta de un nightclub.
Director
Catherine (Fanny Ardant), una atractiva ginecóloga de mediana edad y casada desde hace 25 años, descubre un día que su marido (Gérard Depardieu) la engaña. Decide entonces vengarse y, para ello, contrata a Nathalie (Emmanuelle Béart), una prostituta de un nightclub.
Director
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
Nathalie
Un exempresario ha cumplido condena en prisión y su vida cambia al salir de la cárcel. Ya no es el mismo, y sólo puede revelarse tal cual es cuando conoce a la peluquera de su esposa.
Director
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one ambition - to play the lead role in a Kung Fu epic. But hours of Kung Fu practice alone in his room are not enough. Augustin knows he must pack up and start a new life in China... or at least that part of China within bicycling distance: Chinatown in south-east Paris. There he meets Ling (Maggie Cheung), a young Chinese woman who practices ocupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body had never dreamed of. Where will this lead him? To Kung Fu stardom, maybe not, but to another destiny, a quirky but logical continuation of the same dream.
Screenplay
A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
Director
A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
Writer
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.
Director
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.
Director
A young man prostitutes himself near the Bois de Boulogne (16th). A motorist stops; the young man rides and protects his client. Produced by Lesbian and Gay Pride Films, this film is part of a program of ten short films from a screenwriting competition launched in October 1995 on the theme of homosexuality in the time of AIDS.
Writer
Augustin Dos Santos is a benign simpleton with a slight stammer. He's serious about his part-time job as a clerk for an insurance company, and he also acts, with small parts under his belt in commercials and experimental films. An agent finds his serious innocence perfect for a part as an odd bellman. Before his screen test, he volunteers for a day at a hotel. At his screen test, his inability to see the comic center of the scene makes him perfect for the part. Back at work, women co-workers tease him, and then he's off to the countryside to play a vet in a government film about myxomatosis in rabbits. Can anything break through his serious view of reality?
Director
Augustin Dos Santos is a benign simpleton with a slight stammer. He's serious about his part-time job as a clerk for an insurance company, and he also acts, with small parts under his belt in commercials and experimental films. An agent finds his serious innocence perfect for a part as an odd bellman. Before his screen test, he volunteers for a day at a hotel. At his screen test, his inability to see the comic center of the scene makes him perfect for the part. Back at work, women co-workers tease him, and then he's off to the countryside to play a vet in a government film about myxomatosis in rabbits. Can anything break through his serious view of reality?
Director
Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at the theater. Why not keep her two loves?
Marite
Un grupo de cuatro jóvenes profesores de instituto parecen convertirse en el centro de la crítica para el resto de sus compañeros, ya que para combatir la rutina del día a día, ellos parecen traer al instituto nuevas y refrescantes ideas, con divertidos juegos que en ocasiones les hacen parecer a ellos más infantiles que sus alumnos.
Screenplay
About painter Henri Matisse and his companion Monique Bourgeois.
Director
About painter Henri Matisse and his companion Monique Bourgeois.
