A young girl from a good family is obliged to behave with equally good manners at the dinner table as when she’s performing fellatio. The secret of perfection is an education leaving absolutely no detail untouched. The role of dedicated parents is none other than that of educating the sexuality of their children to teach them elegance, precision and efficacy. –San Sebastián Film Festival
Marina de Van was born in France in 1971, her father being a musicologist. She studied at the Lycée Henri IV and at the Sorbonne University where she earned a degree in philosophy. Then, in 1993 she became a student at the FEMIS, the French school for cinematic studies, where she graduated in 1996. She directed and wrote 6 short movies as well as working as an actress and a writer with fellow FEMIS student director François Ozon. In 2002 she made her first feature film Dans ma peau (2002) as director, writer and actress.