Sólveig Anspach
Sólveig Anspach (born December 8, 1960 in Heimaey , Vestmannaeyjar ; † August 7, 2015 in the Drôme department ) was an Icelandic - French film director and screenwriter .
Life
Anspach was born in Iceland as the daughter of the Icelandic architect Högna Sigurðardóttir and a German-American. However, she grew up in New York and Paris. In Paris she studied philosophy and clinical psychology and then film directing at La Fémis . She completed her film studies in 1990 with the short documentary Par amour , in which a prisoner tells how she killed her husband.
Anspach initially worked in the documentary field and made numerous short documentaries, including Vestmannaeyjar (1990) about the volcanic eruption on the Westman Islands in 1973, Sandrine à Paris (1992) about a Parisian pickpocket, Barbara, you are not guilty (1998) about dime novels and their readers , as well as various episodes of the Alla la terre series . She made her feature film directing debut in 1999 with Haut les cœurs! . In the story of a pregnant woman who learned during a routine check-up that she had breast cancer , Anspach also processed her own breast cancer. For skin les cœurs! In 2000 she received her first César nomination in the category Best First Work . Her comedy I'm right back won the 2008 Variety Piazza Grande Award at the Locarno International Film Festival . The French Film Days Tübingen-Stuttgart dedicated a retrospective to Anspach in 2013.
Her film Quicksand (2013) was also very successful. At the César Awards 2015 she was nominated for her script adaptation and brought the participating actors several nominations and awards: Claude Gensac was nominated for César as Best Supporting Actress, Bouli Lanners won the Belgian Film Prize Magritte as Best Actor and Karin Viard won the Prix Lumières for Best Actress .
Anspach died of breast cancer in her home in the Drôme department in 2015. At the time, her latest film, The Effect of Water, was in post-production. It was completed by Jean-Luc Gaget , Anne Riegel, Skuli Fr. Malmquist, Patrick Sobelman and Martin Wheeler and premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2016 . Anspach was posthumously awarded the Prix SACD in Cannes and, together with Jean-Luc Gaget, received a César in the category Best Original Screenplay in 2017 .
Filmography
Feature films
- 1999: Haut les cœurs!
- 2003: Stormy Weather
- 2006: Cross-border commuters (Les Européens)
- 2008: I 'll be right back (Skrapp út)
- 2009: Louise Michel (TV)
- 2010: Anne et les tremblements (short film)
- 2012: Queen of Montreuil
- 2013: Quicksand (Lulu femme nue)
- 2016: The effect of water (L'effet aquatique) - with a cameo by the director
Documentaries (selection)
- 1990: Par amour (short film)
- 1990: Vestmannaeyjar (Les iles Vestmannaeyar) (short film)
- 1991: Sandrine, une autre vie (short film)
- 1991: Le chemin de Kjolur (short film)
- 1992: Sandrine à Paris
- 1995: Bonjour, c'est pour un probe
- 1995: Sarajevo, paroles de Casques Bleus
- 1995: Bistrik, Sarajevo
- 1995: Alla la terre: Le toucher
- 1995: Alla la terre: les loups
- 1996: Alla la terre: le origines
- 1997: Le theater des marionettes
- 1998: Barbara, you are not guilty (Barbara, tu n'es pas coupable) (TV)
- 1999: The Amazons of Provence (Que personne ne bouge!) (TV)
- 2001: Reykjavik, the eleven dans la ville
- 2001: Made in the USA
- 2002: La revue Deschamps Makeief
- 2004: Thousands of fake pictures (Faux tableaux dans vrais paysages islandais)
- 2005: Le secret
- 2007: Welcome to ... (Bienvenue chez ...) (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2009: Christine (short TV documentary)
Awards
- 1999: Nomination Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival , for Haut les cœurs!
- 1999: Award for best director, Film Fest Gent , for Haut les cœurs!
- 1999: Nomination Grand Prix, Film Fest Gent, for Haut les cœurs!
- 1999: Nomination for Golden Ear, Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid , for Haut les cœurs!
- 2000 : César nomination, best first work , for Haut les cœurs!
- 2001: François Chalais Award, Cannes International Film Festival, for Made in the USA
- 2003: Nomination for the Prix Un Certain Regard, Cannes International Film Festival, for Stormy Weather
- 2008: Variety Piazza Grande Award of the Locarno International Film Festival , for I'll be right back
- 2012: Lina Mangiacapre Award of the Venice International Film Festival, for Queen of Montreuil
- 2015 : César nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay , for Quicksand
- 2016: Prix SACD, Cannes International Film Festival 2016, for The Effect of Water
- 2017 : César, Best Original Screenplay , for The Effect of Water
- 2017: Nomination Edda , Director of the Year, for The Effect of Water
Web links
- Sólveig Anspach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2015 . McFarland, Jefferson 2016, p. 11.
- ↑ Décès de Solveig Anspach . In: Luxemburger Tageblatt , August 10, 2015
- ↑ Gabriele Schneider: Director Sólveig Anspach died of cancer . icelandreview.com, August 11, 2015.
- ↑ Par amour on institutfrancais.com
- ↑ Volcanoes - Nature's Passion . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 23, 1995, p. 23.
- ↑ (hes): New in the cinema: Haut les cœurs! . In: Tagesanzeiger , August 17, 2000, p. 53.
- ↑ Monique Cantré: 30 years - 30 new films . In: Reutlinger General-Anzeiger , October 24, 2013.
- ↑ The effect of water on filmfesthamburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anspach, Sólveig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic-French film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heimaey , Vestmannaeyjar |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th August 2015 |
| Place of death | Drôme department |