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Lucile Emina Hadžihalilović (born 7 May 1961) is a French writer and director of Bosnian descent. She is best known for the 1996 short film La Bouche de Jean-Pierre and the 2004 feature-length film Innocence, for which she became the first woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival's Bronze Horse Award for Best Film.
- 7 May 1961 (age 62), Lyon, France
- Gaspar Noé
She has been working in film industry since 1980's, as director, editor, writer and actress in both short and feature films. Hadzihalilovic is best known for Innocence (2004), Evolution (2015), her third feature as a director, and La bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996).
- January 1, 1
- Writer, Director, Editor
- Lyon, Rhône, France
- Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Jun 7, 2022 · Tue 7 Jun 2022 08.09 EDT. It was a small clip, on YouTube. A young boy on an operating table. And he seemed to be … pregnant. What? The scene was velvety smooth, still, night time, yellowish. I was...
- Mark Cousins
Evolution director Lucile Hadžihalilović: ‘The starfish was the one worry’. The enigmatic French film-maker is one of cinema’s few authentic visionaries. Her unsettling new film about...
Aug 6, 2022 · August 2022. The Natural Models of Lucile Hadžihalilović. Issue 102. This extended conversation with Lucile Hadžihalilović is grounded in the experience of life, film and filmmaking. The interview was conducted by dossier editors Alison Taylor and John Edmond over Zoom in July 2022, and then edited and condensed for clarity. John Edmond ...
Aug 6, 2022 · The Natural Models of Lucile Hadžihalilović. Issue 102. Lucile Hadžihalilović’s films have the structure of allegories. Time after time they are described in terms of surrealism and symbolism, fairy tales, and the shaping of childhood; all rich frameworks for the provision and searching of meaning.
With two meticulously framed, painterly feature films, Lucile Hadzihalilovic has put a fascinating, unsettling spin on adolescence. Her dreamy, attention-grabbing 2004 debut, Innocence, is set in a faraway ballet school, where young girls are enrolled and trained under highly ambiguous conditions.
