Catherine Corsini

Catherine Corsini is a Réalisatrice, Actrice, and Scénariste French E. She was born the May 18th 1958 with Dreux in Eure-et-Loire.

Biography

Catherine Corsini passed her childhood in Seine-et-Marne. Very early, it will decide its vocation for the Cinéma, the trade of Acteur impassioned it immediately. It will choose the Réalisation at the time of a meeting with friends of IDHEC… They recommendèrent to him full-length film of “ the New wave ”. Then, it will be registered during Serge Toubiana on Godard with the faculty of Censier. It will fall under the charm from several Réalisateur S like Wim Wenders, or Lars von Trier. Its passion for the Cinéma will then take the top on that of the Théâtre. In addition, it took all the same much pleasure with the setting in scène.
At 18 years, it will leave for Paris. It will be there the pupil of Antoine Vitez. She will discover a hidden passion: the writing, and will become Scénariste then.
En 1987, it will sign Poker, its first Feature-length film, with Caroline Cellier. But its success is not important, and it will launch out then in the Télévision with Interdit of love , with Nathalie Richard. The latter will play in its second feature-length film entitled in love .
Later, in 1999, it will turn its third opus named the News Eve , which will lead it to direct Karin Viard. She will meet for its fourth film ( the Repetition ) Emmanuelle Béart and Pascale Bussières. This film will be named officially with the Cannes festival 2001. She has just turned the Ambitious , drawn from sound Autobiographie.
Le June 26th 2000, it will take part, under the impulse of Toscan, which helped with the News Eve , at the sides of Luc Besson, Claude Miller,… for the creation of the Franco-German Académie of the cinema .
Elle is represented by ArtMédia .
“ Atrocity, atrocity; a change of century will not be able to make us forget, then I would like to sleep, sleep shamefully not to see these weak dashes of the heart which will devote the year 2000. ”

Catalog of films

Actress

Director

Scenario writer

Interview

At the beginning of the Ambitious , Judith (Karin Viard) request with Julien (Eric Caravaca) why he writes: “To fight against the fear of loneliness, the social complex and the tyranny of the sex”. I have the impression that these three axes Undoubtedly structure your film.

. Julien is corroded by a desire to succeed as writer what puts it a little apart from its group of friends. One sees well his insulation at the beginning of film, and his complex of class. Julien saw as small provincial excluded from a world which is not it his and on which it does not have a catch. It is by meeting the son of the editor whom he says that he perhaps found the key of this success. It is there that it is discovered that under its false modesty Julien is ready with very to arrive there. Judith rose in a social place where it shines by her bad faith and its odious character. But this success is a gangue which maintains it in a great loneliness. Judith has a very voluntary report/ratio with all and sexuality. She has a very primary manner to manage her desire: she indicates the things (beings) of which she wants and seizes some. She decides on all. The arrival of Julien in the life of Judith will upset this order arranged so well.

The characters of the Ambitieux are before all the incarnation of a social class or the desire to leave there… In this respect, the metamorphosis of Julien as a writer with success is exemplary without to be caricatural…

One needed in one hour and half, to draw the portrait of a a little awkward and sunken boy who will become a tempting man and endorsement that Judith will wish. How to reach that point with elegance? Eric Caravaca succeeded in operating this turning finely, with always at the head the concern of not forcing the feature. Its character, Julien is carried by the desire to succeed and that Judith regards it as a writer. When it arrives at being published, very of a blow, something operates. It changed. Julien is a sponge which metamorphoses all gently, on details: some combed hair a little differently, of clothing which changes while remaining in the same tonalities… With more notable changes when it is in situation of representation, in particular at the time of the passage to the emission of TV. Simon is the opposite model of this success and undoubtedly that its failure pushes Julien to be centred even more on its appearance.

A marked taste

In its feature-length films

Catherine Corsini is a director with the very subtle tastes. Indeed, in in love , a Film which treats Homosexualité in Province, it launches out in folds of the Cinéma which do not achieve the unanimity… In the Repetition , the Réalisatrice does not hesitate to show with naked the Acteur S. It called upon three charismatic actors besides:

Pascale Bussières
Sami Bouajila
Pierre-Wolf Rajot

But, thanks to its Will, Catherine Corsini succeeds in igniting the bodies, and thwarting our eyes. Here criticisms of press:

Studio: the scenario writer is never also right, as upsetting, as when it is in the sharp one of passion. That it is in the glares, enthusiasm and tearings, ambiguities and uncertainties. (...) the intensity of the two actresses is for much in this success.
Télérama : " Répétition" multiply the tracks and draws its richness there: suspense of film of kind, sensuality of a homosexual pressure, dissection of a competition in love, it is by accumulating the topics that Catherine Corsini manages to make attractive the relation which links Louise with Nathalie - and who tears them.
Ciné Live: the director makes here the choice of a scenario which plank sometimes psychology applied and gives a feeling which drains film. It remains there nevertheless real moments of grace, which had mainly with its talents of director of actresses and with its two actresses.

In the life

Against violence conjuguale

Catherine Corsini , in parallel with the Popular help, combat against the violence conjuguale, and in particular that which touches the women, and the Racisme. It is accompanied by Zabou Breitman, Michel Boujenah,… This countryside began the November 25th 2004, at the time of the international day against violences , which was promoted besides by the Minister of Interior Department to the label:

campaign general interest on marital violences

Moreover, it is noted that a woman on ten is victim of violence marital, and that a woman dies about it the every five days…
Elle turned some short films in the series Pas of stories . This collection is engaged against the Racisme.

Against the Discrimination towards the “without-papers”

the director is also committed against the Discrimination towards the “without-papers”. It is in the beginning, with Noir Desire, Jose Bove, Jacques Weber, Cali, Denis Podalydès (to quote only them), of the Manifeste of the délinguants of solidarity .

“If solidarity is an offense, I ask to be continued for this offense. ”

Thus these artists struggled to fight against the promulgation of the new project of vote who aimed at still more severely punishing those and those which will accommodate foreigners unlawfully… Because each year in France, hundreds of associations, thousands of citizens, accommodate, help, informent on their droits foreigners. L' article 17 of the project of law Sarkozy envisages the confiscation for the natural persons of all their goods, pieces of furniture or buildings. Article 18 lays down the same thing for the moral persons (for example associations or trade unions). Moreover, it carried out the Film Mohamed , a film engaged against the Racisme, within a collective framework. But, it had already tackled this subject with Jeunesse without God, film which reports the rise of the Nazisme.

Anecdotes

Autobiography

In the News Eve , Catherine Corsini started from her own history to write the character of Camille. “I said myself that the best way of leaving this history, it was to write it and to put it in scene with distance and humor. ” But the director based herself on her life only for this film… the scene where Camille is mistaken in festival and fall into one evening from psychoanalysts is also an authentic anecdote…

Catherine Corsini in the festivals

Its feature-length film the Ambitious was presented except competition to the Festa Internazionale di Roma 2006. It is also in presentation with Cannes
Catherine Corsini made party of the jury of Cannes in 2004 for the section Short film
Catherine Corsini was the member of the jury of the Festival of the European short film in 2003.
the Repetition was greeted of an official selection with Cannes in 2001.
the News Eve was selected with the Berlinale in 1998
Jeunesse without God was presented to Cannes in parallel section in 1996. It was also presented to Cinéma, after criticisms very eulogistic in Le Monde and Libération.
Its feature-length film in love was presented to Cannes in the Cinéma section in France in 1994.
Poker was presented to the Festival of Montreal
In 1983, Ballades had the Grand Prix cinema of the Cannes festival 1983

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