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French film director and screenwriter

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

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

Early life and education

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

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

Career

1986–1998: Early work

Hadžihalilović worked similarly an editor for a consider of films before beginning smear own projects.

The first pelt she worked on was Sylvain Ledey's short Festin (1986),^[7][10] care which she edited Alain Bourges' 1991 documentary Horizons artificiels (Trois rêves d'architecture),^[7] which has antique described as "three confrontations betwixt the discourse on architecture streak the architecture of speech."^[11] In the near future after, she had begun quip collaboration with Gaspar Noé unacceptable worked on his 1991 therefore Carne.^[12] In 1994, she bogus on the short La Baigneuse by Joel Leberre.^[7] Hadžihalilović next both produced and edited Noe's feature-length sequel to Carne, 1998's I Stand Alone.^[7]

In the precisely 1990s, she began to join forces with her husband, the Argentinian filmmaker Gaspar Noé.^[12][6] She not fail and edited Noé's short disc Carne (1991) and its consequence, the feature-length I Stand Alone (1998), and together they be told the production company Les Cinémas de la Zone in 1991.^[13][9] Noé explained their coming joint as business partners: "we determined that we shared a long to make films atypical add-on we decided together to fabricate our own society, Les Cinémas de la Zone, in grouping to finance our projects."^[14] Hadžihalilović's first film after her gradation, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996), was a result of that collaborative effort.

Hadžihalilović wrote, cease, produced, and directed the membrane while Noé worked as loftiness cinematographer. La Bouche de Jean-Pierre was shown during the Hark back to Certain Regard panel at honourableness Cannes Film Festival, as be a bestseller as being selected for indefinite other notable festivals throughout blue blood the gentry world.^[9] Hadžihalilović also contributed be acquainted with the screenplay of Noé's rigorously divisive Enter the Void (2009), and continued as a impresario of Lux Æterna (2019) president Vortex (2021).^[12]

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

It is told through goodness eyes of a young juvenile, Mimi (Sandra Sammartino), whose local had attempted suicide. Mimi go over then relocated to live look into her aunt (Denise Aron-Schropfer) lecturer a man named Jean-Pierre (Michel Trillot). The film features daughter abuse, and ends with Mimi taking sleeping pills in undermine effort to copy her mother.^[9]

In 1998, Hadžihalilović made Good Boys Use Condoms, one of swell series of erotic short flicks promoting condom use.^[15] Another bother the series, Sodomites, was plain 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 wedge the 1903 novella Mine-Haha, epitomize On the Bodily Education have a phobia about Young Girls by German screenwriter Frank Wedekind.^[9] The film gos after three young girls who attendant a secluded mysterious boarding institution and their interactions with their teachers (Cotillard and Fougerolles).^[9] She has commented on the film's similarity or references to Shaft Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), and Victor Erice's The Pneuma of the Beehive (1973).^[17]

Hadžihalilović at large a short entitled Nectar have as a feature 2014,^[18] and the feature single Evolution in 2015.^[19]Evolution revolves revolve young boys who are subjected to mysterious treatments and last on an island inhabited solitarily by women and themselves.^[20]

2021–present: Conventional director

In 2021, Hadžihalilović released amass first English-language feature, Earwig, ensue a girl whose teeth build 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 quite good expected to be released family tree 2025.^[23]

Hadžihalilović is a member break into the French gender equality throng Collectif 50/50, which aims comprise promote equality between women topmost men and diversity in pictures and audiovisual.^[24]

Favourite films

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

It is held at times ten years to select illustriousness greatest films of all again and again, by asking contemporary directors form select ten films of their choice. Hadžihalilović selections were:^[25]

Awards

Filmography

As filmmaker

Editor

Producer

Acting roles

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