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As an actress, Isild Le Besco has featured in over twenty films, including Cédric Kahn’s Roberto Succo (2001), Adolphe (2002) and À tout de suite (2004), both by Benoît Jacquot. At seventeen, she directed Demi-tarif (2000), using her brothers and a DVcam. In it she revealed an unsuspected world, the everyday savagery in the life of three children left to their own devices. This was followed by Charly (2007), the story of an adolescent who flees his adoptive family for the sea, and Bas-fonds (2010). –Locarno Film Festival