Jessica Hausner

Austrian director, producer, and scriptwriter, born in Vienna in 1972.

During her studies in film directing at the Filmakademie in Vienna, Jessica Hausner directed two short films: Flora (1996) and Inter-View (1999). The latter revealed her filmic language and laid the foundations of her work: filming distress, chance events, and solitude. These themes are found in her feature films: Lovely Rita (2000), Hotel (2004), Lourdes (2009), Amour fou (2014) and Little Joe, for which Emily Beecham won Best Actress at Cannes in 2019. In 1999, she also founded the production company Coop 99 with some of her filmmaker friends (Barbara Albert, Antonin Svoboda, and Martin Gschlacht) to produce their own films. Club Zero, released in 2023, takes an innovative and disturbing approach to environmental issues.
- Feature Movies
Lovely Rita (2000) – Hotel (2004) – Lourdes (2009) – Mad Love (2014) – Little Joe (2019) – Club Zero (2023)
- Shorts
Flora (1997) – Inter-View (1998) – Toast (2005)

Their list of films

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Jessica Hausner
about Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain
of Kenji Mizoguchi
Ce sont des histoires très émouvantes, qui en disent long sur la société traditionnelle japonaise
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Jessica Hausner
about A ma soeur !
of Catherine Breillat
C’est une sorte de parabole, c’est-à-dire qu’une réalité fabuleuse, abstraite, se dégage
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Jessica Hausner
about Eyes Without a Face
of Georges Franju
C’est un film de genre, mais aussi un film d’auteur : c’est un mélange peu commun