Anne Fontaine

Anne Fontaine

Anne Fontaine (born in Luxembourg, 1959) is a filmmaker and screenwriter who used to be an actor. She lives and works in France. Born Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral organist. In adolescence she moved to Paris and trained in dance with Joseph Russillo while continuing her academic education, including philosophy. Her husband is Philippe Carcassonne, the film producer, and they have an adopted son who was born in Vietnam. While still dancing, she was picked by Robert Hossein to play Esmeralda in a 1980 theatrical production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and around this time started to use the name Anne Fontaine. She continued with acting and became known for her roles in comedies like Si ma gueule vous plaît... (1981) and P.R.O.F.S.(1985). An opportunity to be assistant director came with a 1986 stage version of Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) at the Renaud-Barrault theatre. Fontaine's first project as solo director, Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général (Love Affairs Usually End Badly), won the 1993 Prix Jean Vigo (prize). In 1995, she worked with her brother on the comic Augustin. Two years later, she wrote and directed the successful Nettoyage à Sec (Dry Cleaning). This won the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival 1997 and is generally considered a milestone on Fontaine's way to becoming "an important figure in contemporary French cinema". In 1999 the character Augustin (Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc) re-appeared in Fontaine's film Augustin, Roi Du Kung-Fu (Augustin, King of Kung-Fu). Comment j'ai tué mon père (How I Killed My Father) was released in 2001, and Nathalie... followed in 2003. The 2005 film, Entre Ses Mains (In His Hands) has been widely described as a thriller: an "intimate thriller" according to Fontaine herself. A third Augustin film, Nouvelle chance (also known as Oh La La) was released in 2006. Then came La fille de Monaco (The Girl From Monaco) in 2008 and Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel), her biopic of Coco Chanel, in 2009. Fontaine's work is not easily categorised, though the phrase "psychological drama" is often used. She told a UK newspaper, "I try to work on my characters' blind side, in a kind of Freudian way: to ask, 'What are the things about themselves that they're unaware of?' I'm fascinated by the irony of fate, when something goes into a skid. All my stories have an element of cruelty in them." Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Fontaine (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Anne Fontaine
  • Popularity: 1.204
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1959-07-15
  • Place of Birth: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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  • Also Known As: Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc
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Anne Fontaine Movies

  • 1980
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    Tender Cousins

    Tender Cousins

    5.9 1980 HD

    Teenage Julien loves his teenage cousin Julia among flowers in summer of '39 France.

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  • 1999
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    Keep It Quiet

    Keep It Quiet

    5.6 1999 HD

    A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison.

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  • 1978
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    The Last Romantic Lover

    The Last Romantic Lover

    4.3 1978 HD

    The romance between a lion tamer and a liberated girl.

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  • 1985
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    P.R.O.F.S.

    P.R.O.F.S.

    6.226 1985 HD

    A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas...

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  • 2018
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    Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

    Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

    7.3 2018 HD

    The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

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  • 2002
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    A Day in the Life of French Cinema

    A Day in the Life of French Cinema

    1 2002 HD

    Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors,...

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  • 2009
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    Coco Before Chanel

    Coco Before Chanel

    6.9 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Coco Before Chanel

    Coco Before Chanel

    6.9 2009 HD

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  • 1997
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    Dry Cleaning

    Dry Cleaning

    5.5 1997 HD

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  • 1997
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    Dry Cleaning

    Dry Cleaning

    5.5 1997 HD

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  • 2001
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    How I Killed My Father

    How I Killed My Father

    5.8 2001 HD

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  • 1995
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    Augustin

    Augustin

    4.2 1995 HD

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  • 2005
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    In His Hands

    In His Hands

    6 2005 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Girl from Monaco

    The Girl from Monaco

    5.1 2008 HD

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  • 1999
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    Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

    Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

    7 1999 HD

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  • 2003
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    Nathalie...

    Nathalie...

    5.811 2003 HD

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  • 1993
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    Love Affairs Usually End Badly

    Love Affairs Usually End Badly

    5.5 1993 HD

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  • 2006
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    Nouvelle chance

    Nouvelle chance

    5.5 2006 HD

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  • 2006
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    Nouvelle chance

    Nouvelle chance

    5.5 2006 HD

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  • 2011
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    My Worst Nightmare

    My Worst Nightmare

    5.433 2011 HD

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  • 1995
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    Augustin

    Augustin

    4.2 1995 HD

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  • 2013
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    Adore

    Adore

    6.1 2013 HD

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  • 1970
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    Monique et Matisse

    Monique et Matisse

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1997
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    Love Reinvented

    Love Reinvented

    5 1997 HD

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  • 1997
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    Love Reinvented

    Love Reinvented

    5 1997 HD

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  • 2014
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    Gemma Bovery

    Gemma Bovery

    6.1 2014 HD

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  • 2010
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    Chloe

    Chloe

    6.1 2010 HD

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  • 1970
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    Monique et Matisse

    Monique et Matisse

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2014
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    Gemma Bovery

    Gemma Bovery

    6.1 2014 HD

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  • 2024
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    Boléro

    Boléro

    6.5 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Boléro

    Boléro

    6.5 2024 HD

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  • 2011
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    My Worst Nightmare

    My Worst Nightmare

    5.433 2011 HD

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  • 2016
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    7.1 2016 HD

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  • 2003
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    Nathalie...

    Nathalie...

    5.811 2003 HD

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  • 2016
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    7.1 2016 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Girl from Monaco

    The Girl from Monaco

    5.1 2008 HD

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  • 2017
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    Reinventing Marvin

    Reinventing Marvin

    6.7 2017 HD

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  • 2017
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    Reinventing Marvin

    Reinventing Marvin

    6.7 2017 HD

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  • 2005
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    In His Hands

    In His Hands

    6 2005 HD

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  • 2016
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    7.1 2016 HD

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  • 2019
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    White as Snow

    White as Snow

    5.1 2019 HD

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  • 2001
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    How I Killed My Father

    How I Killed My Father

    5.8 2001 HD

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  • 1996
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    Night Hustler

    Night Hustler

    4 1996 HD

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  • 2019
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    White as Snow

    White as Snow

    5.1 2019 HD

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  • 2020
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    Night Shift

    Night Shift

    5.3 2020 HD

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  • 2020
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    Night Shift

    Night Shift

    5.3 2020 HD

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  • 2021
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    Presidents

    Presidents

    5.3 2021 HD

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  • 1999
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    Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

    Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

    7 1999 HD

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  • 1980
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    Les Mystères de Paris

    Les Mystères de Paris

    6 1980 HD

    TV mini series. An adaptation of Eugene Sue's popular novel.

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 1986
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    Softly from Paris

    Softly from Paris

    5.8 1986 HD

    An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio,...

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  • 1986
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    Softly from Paris

    Softly from Paris

    5.8 1986 HD

    An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio,...

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  • 1970
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    Softly from Paris

    Softly from Paris

    1 1970 HD

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