Diane Kurys

• Diane Kurys, French film director, born in Lyon in 1948.

  After starting her career as an actress, Diane Kurys turned to writing and directing in the late 1970s. Her first film, Diabolo menthe, a look back at her high school years, won the Prix Louis Delluc and was a huge public success in 1977. Often autobiographical, her films have on several occasions blended family stories with history through the intimate trajectories of her characters (Cocktail Molotov in 1980, Coup de foudre in 1983, La Baule-les-Pins in 1990, Pour une femme in 2013). She has written, directed and produced some fifteen films, in which she created great female characters for her actresses like Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Nathalie Baye, Juliette Binoche, Sylvie Testud and Fanny Ardant. She has also portrayed female literary figures such as George Sand and Françoise Sagan.

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• Peppermint Soda (1977) - Cocktail Molotov (1980) - Coup de foudre (1983) - A Man in Love (1987) - C'est la vie (La Baule-les-Pins) (1990) - Love After Love (1991) - À la folie (1994) - The Children of the Century (1999) - Je reste ! (2003) - L'Anniversaire (2005) - Sagan (2008) - Pour une femme (2013) - Arrête ton cinéma ! (2015) - My Mother is Crazy (2018)