Marina de Van
French film director
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Marina de Van (French: [də van]; born 8 February 1971)[1][2] is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
Born8 February 1971
France
OccupationsFilm director, screenwriter, actress
Yearsactive1993–present
Marina de Van | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 February 1971 France |
| Occupations | Film director, screenwriter, actress |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Her brother is Adrien de Van, he appeared with her in the 1998 film Sitcom playing her brother.[4] In her directing debut In My Skin in 2002, he played an intern.[5]
She studied in the directing department of La Fémis, from which she graduated in 1997.[6]
Selected filmography
- Bein Sous Tous Rapports (1996) (actress/writer/director)
- See the Sea (1997) (actress/writer)
- Sitcom (1998) (actress)
- Alias (1999) (writer/director)
- Psy Show (1999) (writer/director)
- Criminal Lovers (1999) (writer of additional material - poem "Bouche de Saïd")
- 8 Women (2002) (writer)
- In My Skin (2002) (writer/director)
- Made in Paris (2006) (actress)
- La clef (2007) (actress)
- La promenade (2007) (actress/writer/director)
- Don't Look Back (2009) (writer/director)
- Hop-o'-My-Thumb (2011) (director/collaborating writer)
- Dark Touch (2012) (writer/director)
- My Nudity Means Nothing (2019) (actress/writer/director)
- Continental Drift (South) (2022) (collaborating writer)
- Ozon: Remastered and Uncut (2022) (actress)
- The Black Widow (2023) (actress)
Further reading
- Tim Palmer "Don't Look Back: An Interview with Marina de Van," The French Review, 83:5, April 2010, pp. 96–103
- Tim Palmer, "Under Your Skin: Marina de Van and the Contemporary French Cinema du Corps," Studies in French Cinema, 6:3, Fall 2006, pp. 171–181
