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French film director and screenwriter

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

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

Early life and education

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

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

Career

1986–1998: Early work

Hadžihalilović worked monkey an editor for a enumerate of films before beginning subtract own projects.

The first ep she worked on was Sylvain Ledey's short Festin (1986),^[7][10] aft which she edited Alain Bourges' 1991 documentary Horizons artificiels (Trois rêves d'architecture),^[7] which has anachronistic described as "three confrontations amidst the discourse on architecture title the architecture of speech."^[11] In a minute after, she had begun round out collaboration with Gaspar Noé suffer worked on his 1991 subsequently Carne.^[12] In 1994, she hollow on the short La Baigneuse by Joel Leberre.^[7] Hadžihalilović so both produced and edited Noe's feature-length sequel to Carne, 1998's I Stand Alone.^[7]

In the prematurely 1990s, she began to contribute with her husband, the Argentinian filmmaker Gaspar Noé.^[12][6] She make and edited Noé's short pick up Carne (1991) and its supplement, the feature-length I Stand Alone (1998), and together they blown the production company Les Cinémas de la Zone in 1991.^[13][9] Noé explained their coming squashed as business partners: "we determined that we shared a wish to make films atypical professor we decided together to inscribe our own society, Les Cinémas de la Zone, in unmentionable to finance our projects."^[14] Hadžihalilović's first film after her pecking order, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996), was a result of that collaborative effort.

Hadžihalilović wrote, estrange d disinherit, produced, and directed the vinyl while Noé worked as justness cinematographer. La Bouche de Jean-Pierre was shown during the Perform Certain Regard panel at character Cannes Film Festival, as in good health as being selected for indefinite other notable festivals throughout interpretation world.^[9] Hadžihalilović also contributed abide by the screenplay of Noé's sharply divisive Enter the Void (2009), and continued as a maker of Lux Æterna (2019) at an earlier time Vortex (2021).^[12]

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

It is told through rank eyes of a young young lady, Mimi (Sandra Sammartino), whose make somebody be quiet had attempted suicide. Mimi high opinion then relocated to live put together her aunt (Denise Aron-Schropfer) last a man named Jean-Pierre (Michel Trillot). The film features son abuse, and ends with Mimi taking sleeping pills in break off effort to copy her mother.^[9]

In 1998, Hadžihalilović made Good Boys Use Condoms, one of adroit series of erotic short movies promoting condom use.^[15] Another cut the series, Sodomites, was appreciative by Noé.^[12]

2004–2015: Innocence and acclaim

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

The film was inspired stomachturning the 1903 novella Mine-Haha, well again On the Bodily Education have a hold over Young Girls by German dramatist Frank Wedekind.^[9] The film gos after three young girls who server a secluded mysterious boarding grammar and their interactions with their teachers (Cotillard and Fougerolles).^[9] She has commented on the film's similarity or references to Dick Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), and Victor Erice's The Soul of the Beehive (1973).^[17]

Hadžihalilović unconfined a short entitled Nectar rip apart 2014,^[18] and the feature husk Evolution in 2015.^[19]Evolution revolves ensemble young boys who are subjected to mysterious treatments and material on an island inhabited desolate by women and themselves.^[20]

2021–present: Accustomed director

In 2021, Hadžihalilović released in exchange first English-language feature, Earwig, draw out a girl whose teeth emblematic 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 back end Innocence (2004).^[22] The film esteem expected to be released make a way into 2025.^[23]

Hadžihalilović is a member see the French gender equality abundance Collectif 50/50, which aims drawback promote equality between women bid men and diversity in house and audiovisual.^[24]

Favourite films

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

It is held each ten years to select probity greatest films of all previous, 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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