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BIRTHDAY

December 03, 1948

Lyons, France

RECENT CREDITS

Je Reste! (FILM) Jan. 1, 2004

Children of the Century (FILM) Sep. 13, 2002

Love After Love (FILM) Jul. 8, 1994

À la Folie (FILM) Jan. 1, 1994

Pour Sacha (FILM) Jun. 5, 1992

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BIOGRAPHY

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French filmmaker Diane Kurys began as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault's company. She went on to nominal film stardom, but didn't like roles she was getting and wasn't fond of taking orders from others. With a government grant, Kurys wrote a screenplay which developed into her first directorial effort: Peppermint Soda (Diabolo Menthe, 1979), the first of several films which delved into Kurys' own life as a child of divorce, as well as her relationships with her parents and siblings. The divorce issue manifested itself into Kurys most popular film, 1983's Entre Nous (originally Coup de Foudre), which afforded actress Isabelle Huppert the opportunity for an excellent characterization as the heroine's mother. Kurys' autobiographical cinematic odyssey continued with 1990's C'est la Vie, in which her alter-ego leading character returned to the adolescent years previously explored in Peppermint Soda.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Polanski: Support and Backlash

Sep. 30, 2009

Support is growing for Roman Polanski, and so is a backlash. Some French politicians are not siding so closely with the artistic community in their defense of the jailed filmmaker while other folks from all over are weighing in with indignation that Polanski should receive special treatment.

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