Diane Kurys

Director

““Entre Nous” was a way of reconciling my parents, however briefly, on screen. I put them back together in the film, to realize the dream I had as a child that they would be living together. I had to prove it was not my fault they divorced. I had to prove that the premises of the marriage were wrong.”

Biography

Diane Kurys (born December 3, 1948) is a French filmmaker and actress. Several of her films as director are autobiographical. Born in Lyon, Rhône, France, her parents divorced when she was a child. She began as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault’s company. She gained film stardom, but didn’t like the roles she was given or taking orders from others. With a government grant, she made her first film as director, Diabolo menthe (1977) (aka Peppermint Soda), which explored her life as a child of divorced parents, and focused on her relationship with her sister, to whom she dedicated the movie.

Cocktail Molotov (1980) was her next film. In Coup de Foudre (1983) (aka Entre Nous), the divorce issue is revisited, with Isabelle Huppert playing the heroine’s mother. Kurys made her first English-language film, A Man in Love, in 1987. C’est la vie (aka La Baule-les-Pins) (1990) returned to her alter-ego leading character’s adolescent… read more