Roselyne Bosch
Writing
Biography
Roselyne Bosch, also known as Rose Bosch (born 1961) is a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. She was born in Avignon. Her father was a Catalan who fled the Francoist Spain for political refuge, and her mother was an Italian. She worked as a journalist for a French news magazine Le Point, and her reporting included portraits of Stephen Hawking, the Basque conflict, child trafficking in Sri Lanka, famine in Nordeste Brasil, and floods in Bangladesh. In 1991, she was a finalist for the Albert Londres prize but did not win. In 1992, she became interested in Christopher Columbus while researching a 1987 article on Spain's long-range plans for celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ first voyage, and she wrote the screenplay of the film 1492: Conquest of Paradise directed by Ridley Scott. In 2010, she wrote and directed the film The Round Up about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup during Vichy France. She is married to film producer Alain Goldman with whom she has two children. Source: Article "Roselyne Bosch" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
1492: Conquest of Paradise
High-profile lawyer Michel takes on the defence of a young and pretty small-time thief, Cécile, after the botched hold-up of a jewellery shop. As predicted by his elegant art-dealer and sculptress wife Viviane, Michel goes well beyond his brief, jeopardising his career and ruining his marriage of 18 years.
In All Innocence
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
The Round Up
In the wake of their parent's separation, three siblings spend the summer in the south of France with their estranged Grandfather. In less than 24 hours, a clash of generations has occurred between the teenagers and the old man. During this turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by one another.
My Summer in Provence
A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity.
Bimboland
The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that trigger aggression. To achieve faster results he performs illegal tests on the convicted mass murderer Iparrah. But when Thomas one day gets caught, he injects the unauthorized test agent itself. This turns out to have unexpected effects ...
Animal
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?