Diane Kurys
Diane Kurys (born December 3, 1948 in Lyon ) is a French filmmaker and actress.
Life
Diane Kurys was born in Lyon in 1948 to Russian-Jewish immigrants. Her parents divorced when Kurys was 6 years old. She moved to Paris with her mother and sister, where she attended high school. After graduating from high school, Kurys began a theater career and played, among others, in the company Renaud-Barrault . In 1971 she made her first film as an actress. Her first own film, Die kleine Pariserinnen (Original title: Diabolo Menthe , 1977), was about her childhood as a child of divorced parents and her relationship with her sister. Many of her films deal with autobiographical topics, often the parent-child relationship or the lives of children in problematic family relationships play a role. Her latest film is a biography about Françoise Sagan .
Kurys is married to the filmmaker Alexandre Arcady , their son is the writer Sacha Sperling .
Filmography (selection)
As a director and screenwriter
- 1977: The Little Parisian Women (Diabolo menthe)
- 1980: Cocktail Molotov
- 1983: Entre Nous - dreams of tenderness (Coup de foudre)
- 1987: Passionate encounter (Un homme amoureux)
- 1998: A summer by the sea (La baule - Les pins)
- 1992: After love (Après l'amour)
- 1993: The love drama of Venice (Les enfants du siècle)
- 1994: Alice and Elsa - Between love and hate (à la folie)
- 2003: the rest!
- 2005: L'anniversaire
- 2008: Bonjour Sagan (Sagan)
- 2013: Pour une femme
As an actress
- 1972: A charming crook (Le bar de la fourche)
- 1972: What a Flash!
- 1973: Through Paris with noises (Elle court, elle court la banlieue)
- 1973: Poil de carotte
- 1976: Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini)
- 1976: F comme Fairbanks
Awards
- 1977: Louis Delluc Prize for Little Parisians
literature
- Carrie Tarr: Diane Kurys . Manchester University Press, New York, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7190-5095-4
Web links
- Diane Kurys in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Diane Kurys at allocine.com , accessed November 13, 2011
- ↑ Biography at voila , accessed on November 13, 2011
- ^ Biography of Diane Kurys ( memento of March 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), filmdirectorssite.com
- ↑ Sacha Sperling, bonjour mélancolie , L'Express, September 4, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurys, Diane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French filmmaker and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |