Claire Simon

Claire Simon (born in London in 1955); scenario writer, actress, director of the photograph, monteuse French and director, who carries out films documentaireset of fiction to the Morocco. Its work is primarily made up of documentary in which it tracks stories, those that the children invent the time of a recreation, that the difficulties of management induce in Coûte that costs, that which is born from the love of two young people (800 km of difference-Lovesong), or that weaves the singular life of Mimi. In fact, for Claire Simon, if “the banality contains fiction”, the work of the scenario writer is to flush out it .

Biography

Raised in France in the VAr, Claire Simon studies the Ethnologie, learn the Arab language and the language Berbère.

Autodidact, it begins in the cinema by the means of the Montage by exerting responsibility for chief-monteuse and turns some Court-measurings in an independent way.

Among his the most noticed films, one remembers short-measuring like Domestic fights (1991) .

In 1997 the director presents If not, yes her first Long-métrage of fiction to About fifteen the Realizers.

She says in connection with her documentary work: “In my documentary work, I tried to find situations of fiction, not with the direction where there would be actors, but where the reference would be the fiction. I tried to film the people who were in a certain manner worked by mythology of the fiction. (…) I always said that Coûte that costs was related to American black films, that Récréations it was for me Shakespeare. Mimi is related to Perec and 800km of difference in Eustace or Renoir. (…) I remember once, (…) I spoke with ethnologists and I saw well that the difference between them and me it is that me I think of Hitchcock, Scorsese, or Godard when I turn. They, they thought in terms of sociology, ethnology. Thus inevitably they did not see at all the characters in the same frame of mind as me. ”

Catalog of films like director

Madeleine (CM), 1976
While I fail (CM), 1980
Me, not or the money of Patricia (CM), 1981
My dear Simon (CM), 1982
One day of holidays (CM), 1983
Barres Bars (CM), 1984
the Police force (1988)
the Patients , 1989
Domestic fights '' (CM), 1991

Recreations (MM), 1992

Painter (CM), 1992

Coûte which costs , 1995

If not, yes , 1997

That it is really you , (telefilm) 1999

800 km of difference/Romance (DOC.), 2000

Mimi (DOC.), 2002

That burns , 2006

Scenario writer

If not, yes , 1997
That it is really you , (telefilm) 1999
That burns , 2006

Catalog of films as director of photography

Recreations (MM), 1992
800 km of difference/Lovesong (DOC.), 2000
Mimi (DOC.), 2002

Monteuse

Mimi (2003), of Claire Simon
800 km of difference - Lovesong (2002), of Claire Simon
Night watchman (1986), of Jean-Pierre Limosin
False Reducing (1982), of Alain Bergala
Plogoff, of the stones against rifles (1981), of Nicole Garrec

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