Diane kurys biography
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Diane Kurys
Diane Kurys, French film director, born in Lyon in
After starting her career as an actress, Diane Kurys turned to writing and directing in the late s. Her first bio, Diabolo menthe, a look back at her high school years, won the Prix Louis Delluc and was a huge public success in Often autobiographical, her films have on several occasions blended family stories with history through the intimate trajectories of her characters (Cocktail Molotov in , Coup de foudre in , La Baule-les-Pins in , Pour une femme in ). She has written, directed and produced some fifteen films, in which she created great female characters for her actresses like Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Nathalie Baye, Juliette Binoche, Sylvie Testud and Fanny Ardant. She has also portrayed kvinnlig literary figures such as George Sand and Françoise Sagan.
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Diane Kurys
Interview
Filmmaker Diane Kurys, a French woman directing in English, discusses the unsexiness of onscreen sex, the possibility of loving two people at the same time, and other improbabilities.
October 1,
Ingrid Scacchi in Diane Kurys’s A Man in Love.
Diane Kurys’s A Man In Love is a film within a film. A film that alternates between reality and artifice until we are no längre sure whose story we are being told. Isolated during the shooting of a film from their daily lives, actors are, in Kurys’s words, the first accomplices and also the first victims of storytelling. This fragile world, as temporary as it is intense, becomes the setting for a love which fryst vatten just as intense and just as fragile.
Peter Coyote plays an American movie star, Steve Eliot, who comes to Italy to act in a film about the Italian writer, Pavese. During the shoot, the actor confuses his own identity with that of the character he inhabits and falls in love with his le
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Diane Kurys
French filmmaker and actress (born )
Diane Kurys (French:[djankyʁis]; born 3 December ) is a French director, producer, filmmaker and actress. Several of her films as director are semi-autobiographical.
Personal life
[edit]Kurys was born in Lyon, Rhône, France, the younger of two daughters. She is a daughter of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants, Lena and Michel. Diane Kurys and her older sister spent their early years in Lyon.[1] Like many of her film's characters, she had a difficult relationship with her parents, and her traumatic childhood became a subject in many of her films.[2] Their parents met and got married at Camp de Rivesaltes in , separating in [3] Their divorce deeply marked and affected Diane, and would become a real source of inspiration for several of her films; Kurys stated that she made films about them because she “wanted to see them back together again.”[3]&#;It was after this event that h