Anne Fontaine

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 SibertinBlanc sister of actor JeanChrétien SibertinBlanc she went as a young child to live in Lisbon where her father Antoine SibertinBlanc 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 PROFS1985 An opportunity to be assistant director came with a 1986 stage version of Célines Voyage au bout de la nuit Journey to the End of the Night at the RenaudBarrault theatre Fontaines first project as solo director Les histoires damour 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 Fontaines way to becoming an important figure in contemporary French cinema In 1999 the character Augustin JeanChrétien SibertinBlanc reappeared in Fontaines film Augustin Roi Du KungFu Augustin King of KungFu Comment jai 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 Fontaines 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 theyre unaware of Im fascinated by the irony of fate when something goes into a skid All my stories have an element of cruelty in them Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Fontaine filmmaker licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia