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Anne-Marie Faux

Anne-Marie Faux

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Biography

Anne-Marie Faux is a French filmmaker and producer. In the 1990s, she worked closely with Jean-Luc Godard and produced Alas for Me in 1993, a film that explores love and creation through a text by Leopardi. In 2007, she co-directed with Jean-Pierre Devilliers the documentary Maurice Pialat, l’amour existe, a moving portrait of the filmmaker, which was selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year, Anne-Marie Faux appeared in Cortex, acting opposite Julien Boisselier and André Dussollier in the role of Claire. She has since directed several documentaries, including Face au vent, partition buissonnière (2010), Le Bruit du temps, Messaoud (2014), and Ostinato, Al-Ándalus (2017).

Known For

Cortex
6.5

Trapped in an old folks home where people keep going missing, an ex-cop must overcome his Alzheimers to find out who is killing people in this jigsaw thriller.

Cortex

2008
Oh, Woe Is Me
6.3

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.

Oh, Woe Is Me

1993
Lou Didn’t Say No
7.5

Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis.

Lou Didn’t Say No

1994
Face au vent, partition buissonnière
N/A

There is no denying that autobiographical intentions and introspection have their pitfalls. But a man's voice off screen sets the tone from the start: "There is no such thing as a private diary. The very expression is nonsensical." No chance then to see outpourings, confessions or explanations.

Face au vent, partition buissonnière

2010
Le bruit du temps, Messaoud
6.0

1986, a young boy tells you about Bougie, his city of birth, and asks you to go there because he know he will never go back. It is in Algeria, in Kabylie. 2011, you are invited there and you go as a silent promise.

Le bruit du temps, Messaoud

2014
Hic rosa, partition botanique
6.3

From what was to me a gift of friendship day: a book makes some of Rosa Luxemburg's prison letters written by her friends Sonia Liebknecht and Mathilde Wurm between July 1916 and October 1918. And all the jingles who composed this period: songs of birds, plants, colors and sounds passages. Those for events in the events of the being-locked. As for the outside: October, World War Revolution, The emigrant and Chaplin The Adventurer, The affliction flowers and Klee's zoological garden. Appearances / disappearances, present stories, their intertwined. Destinies.

Hic rosa, partition botanique

2007
Maurice Pialat, l'amour existe
N/A

A documentary about the life and career of Maurice Pialat produced by his widow, the accomplished film producer Sylvie Pialat. The film interweaves clips from his films with interview footage of Pialat, who speaks of growing up as an only child, his interest in painting, his early influences in cinema from Yasujiro Ozu to John Ford, his disaffection with the French New Wave, and the theme of abandonment in his films. Pialat’s remarks offer insights into his aesthetic strategies and hint at his reputation as a challenging, irascible director, known for having pushed his actors to deliver raw and powerful performances.

Maurice Pialat, l'amour existe

2007
Et que l’espérance est violente
6.0

Video letter directed by Anne-Marie Faux on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Côté Court Short Film Festival.

Et que l’espérance est violente

2011
Ostinato, Al-Ándalus
N/A

Sometimes the Mediterranean cries as it dances, sometimes it gives birth and drowns. Cradles, tombs, it is ours, from the sigh of the Moor in Granada to the insurrections of Montfermeil in Seine-Saint-Denis, from the destiny of Palestine to the mountains of Kabylie. Perhaps the time has come to speak of this sea in order to glimpse what we will do when the war is over.

Ostinato, Al-Ándalus

2017