Lucile Hadžihalilović
Born (1961-05-07) 7 May 1961
Lyon, France
OccupationFilm director
SpouseGaspar Noé

Lucile Emina Hadžihalilović (born 7 May 1961) is a French writer and director of Bosnian descent.[1][2] She is best known for the 1996 short film La Bouche de Jean-Pierre and the 2004 feature-length film Innocence, for which she became the first woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival's Bronze Horse Award for Best Film.[3]

Background

Hadžihalilović was born in Lyon in 1961 to Bosnian Yugoslav parents and grew up in Morocco until she was 17.[4] She studied art history[4] and graduated from the prestigious French film school La Femis (previously Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) in 1987 with the short film La Premiere Mort de Nono.[5]

In the early 1990s, she began to collaborate with the notable French filmmaker Gaspar Noé. She produced and edited his short film Carne (1991) and its sequel, the feature-length I Stand Alone (1998), and together they formed the production company Les Cinémas de la Zone[6] in 1991.[5] Noe explained their coming together as business partners: "we discovered that we shared a desire to make films atypical and we decided together to create our own society, Les Cinémas de la Zone, in order to finance our projects."[7] Hadžihalilović's first film after her graduation, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996), was a result of this collaborative effort. Hadžihalilović wrote, edited, produced, and directed the film while Noé worked as the cinematographer. La Bouche de Jean-Pierre was shown during the Un Certain Regard panel at the Cannes Film Festival as well as being selected for various other notable festivals throughout the world.[5] Hadžihalilović also contributed to the screenplay of Noe's critically divisive Enter the Void (2009), and continued as a producer of Lux Æterna (2019) and Vortex (2021).

Career

Editor

Hadžihalilović worked as an editor for a number of films before beginning her own projects. The first film she worked on was Sylvain Ledey's short Festin (1986),[4][8] after which she edited Alain Bourges' 1991 documentary Horizons artificiels (Trois rêves d'architecture),[4] which has been described as "three confrontations between the discourse on architecture and the architecture of speech."[9] Soon after, she had begun her collaboration with Gaspar Noé and worked on his 1991 short Carne.[10] In 1994, she worked on the short La Baigneuse by Joel Leberre.[4] Hadžihalilović then both produced and edited Noe's feature-length sequel to Carne, 1998's I Stand Alone.[4]

Director

Hadžihalilović's first short feature after her graduating film was La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996). It is told through the eyes of a young girl, Mimi (Sandra Sammartino), whose mother had attempted suicide. Mimi is then relocated to live with her aunt (Denise Aron-Schropfer) and a man named Jean-Pierre (Michel Trillot). The film features child abuse, and ends with Mimi taking sleeping pills in an effort to copy her mother.[5]

In 1998, Hadžihalilović made Good Boys Use Condoms, one of a series of erotic short films promoting condom use.[11] Another in the series, Sodomites, was made by Noé.[12] In 2004, she released the critically acclaimed film Innocence, starring Marion Cotillard and Hélène de Fougerolles. The film was inspired by the 1903 novella Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls by German playwright Frank Wedekind.[5] The film follows three young girls who attend a secluded mysterious boarding school and their interactions with their teachers (Cotillard and Fougerolles).[5] She has commented on the film's similarity or references to Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), and Victor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive (1973).[13]

Hadžihalilović released a short entitled Nectar in 2014,[14] and the feature film Evolution in 2015.[15] Evolution revolves around young boys who are subjected to mysterious treatments and live on an island inhabited solely by women and themselves.[16]

In 2021, Hadžihalilović released her first English-language feature, Earwig, about a girl whose teeth are made of ice, which won Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian Film Festival.[17]

In June 2023, it was announced that Hadzihalilovic's next film will be La Tour de glace, starring Marion Cotillard, their second collaboration after Innocence (2004).[18]

Favourite films

In 2022, Hadžihalilović participated in the Sight & Sound film polls of that year. It is held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, by asking contemporary directors to select ten films of their choice. Hadžihalilović selections were:[19]


Awards

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2021 Vortex Producer
2021 Earwig Director [20]
2019 Lux Æterna Producer
2015 Evolution Director [21][22]
2014 Nectar Director Short Film
2004 Innocence Director [23][24][25]
1998 Good Boys Use Condoms Director Short Film
1998 I Stand Alone Editor
1996 La Bouche de Jean-Pierre Director, Editor Short Film
1994 La Baigneuse Editor Short Film
1991 Carne Actress, Editor Short Film
1991 Horizons artificiels (Trois rêves d'architecture) Editor
1989 Les cinéphiles 2 - Eric a disparu Actress
Les cinéphiles - Le retour de Jean
1987 La Premiere Mort de Nono Director, Editor Short Film
1986 Festin Editor Short Film

References

  1. ↑ "'I know I'm not going to please everyone': Lucile Hadžihalilović on her beguiling film-making". the Guardian. 2022-06-07. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  2. ↑ Smith, Ian Haydn (2019-09-03). Cult Filmmakers: 50 movie mavericks you need to know. White Lion Publishing. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-7112-4026-1.
  3. 1 2 "Director is first woman to win a Bronze Horse". deseretnews.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rège, Philippe (11 December 2009). Encyclopedia of French Film Directors. ISBN 9780810869394. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Palmer, Tim. "Contemporary Feminine Cinema and Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence". academia.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-10-27. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  6. ↑ "IMDb: Les Cinémas de la Zone". imdb.com. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  7. ↑ "Le Tempts Detruit Tout: Pulpe Amère". letempsdetruittout.net. Archived from the original on 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  8. ↑ "International Short Film Festival: Festin". clermont-filmfest.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-18. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  9. ↑ "Film documentaire: Horizons artificiels". film-documentaire.fr. Archived from the original on 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  10. ↑ "IMDb: Carne". imdb.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  11. ↑ "IMDb: Good Boys Use Condoms". imdb.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  12. ↑ "IMDb: Sodomites". imdb.com. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Artificial Eye: Lucile Hadžihalilović". artificial-eye.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  14. ↑ "IMDb: Nectar". imdb.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-07. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  15. ↑ "Cineuropa: Lucile Hadzihalilovic is back with Evolution". cineuropa.org. 28 August 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-04-05. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  16. ↑ "Wild Bunch: Evolution". wildbunch.biz. Archived from the original on 2015-04-09. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  17. ↑ Lodge, Guy (2021-09-25). "Romanian Film 'Blue Moon' Takes Top Prize at San Sebastian Fest, as Jessica Chastain Wins for Performance". Variety. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  18. ↑ Lavallée, Eric (22 June 2023). "Snow Queen: Marion Cotillard Toplines Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "La Tour de glace"". Ioncinema. Archived from the original on 22 June 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  19. ↑ https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters/lucile-hadzihalilovic
  20. ↑ "Earwig review – more serious weirdness from Lucile Hadžihalilović". the Guardian. 2022-06-11. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  21. ↑ "Evolution director Lucile Hadžihalilović: 'The starfish was the one worry'". the Guardian. 2016-04-28. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  22. ↑ "Evolution review – beautifully unsettling". the Guardian. 2016-05-08. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  23. ↑ Murray, Noel (2016-11-19). "New on video: 'Hell or High Water' is both entertaining and enlightening, plus more new releases". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  24. ↑ Peirse, Alison (2020-09-17). Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre. Rutgers University Press. pp. 206–207. ISBN 978-1-9788-0511-8.
  25. ↑ Luca, Tiago de (2015-12-31). Slow Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-9605-5.
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