Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Boléro
2024
Director, Screenplay
Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ra...
Presidents
2021
Director
A former french President, Nicolas, decides to persuade another one, François, to campaign together in order to return to the front stage of politics.
Night Shift
2020
Director, Screenplay
Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his ...
White as Snow
2019
Director, Screenplay
Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks unc...
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
as Self
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a...
Reinventing Marvin
2017
Director, Writer
Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home f...
The Innocents
2016
Director, Adaptation, Dialogue
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a...
Gemma Bovery
2014
Director, Screenplay
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple movi...
Adore
2013
Director
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendshi...
My Worst Nightmare
2011
Director, Screenplay
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — bu...
Chloe
2010
Original Film Writer
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
Coco Before Chanel
2009
Director, Screenplay
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She...
The Girl from Monaco
2008
Director, Writer
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil...
Nouvelle chance
2006
Director, Scenario Writer
How do you bring together such different people as Odette Saint-Gilles, an aging, forgotten actress living in a welfare home, Augustin Dos Santos, a p...
In His Hands
2005
Director, Writer
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties...
Nathalie...
2003
Director, Writer
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hopin...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
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, dir...
How I Killed My Father
2001
Director, Writer
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he...
Keep It Quiet
1999
as Nathalie
A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison.
Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
1999
Director, Writer
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one a...
Dry Cleaning
1997
Director, Screenplay
A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
Love Reinvented
1997
Director, Writer
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tal...
Night Hustler
1996
Director
A young man prostitutes himself near the Bois de Boulogne (16th). A motorist stops; the young man rides and protects his client. Produced by Lesbian ...
Augustin
1995
Writer, Director
Augustin Dos Santos is a benign simpleton with a slight stammer. He's serious about his part-time job as a clerk for an insurance company, and he also...
Love Affairs Usually End Badly
1993
Director
Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at...
P.R.O.F.S.
1985
as Marite
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 into...
Si ma gueule vous plaît...
1981
as Isabelle
A French satirical comedy that examines society’s obsession with appearance. A man with unconventional looks unexpectedly becomes a public sensation, ...
Tender Cousins
1980
as Justine
Teenage Julien loves his teenage cousin Julia among flowers in summer of '39 France.
The Last Romantic Lover
1978
The romance between a lion tamer and a liberated girl.
Monique et Matisse
N/A
Director, Screenplay
About painter Henri Matisse and his companion Monique Bourgeois.