{"id":9,"date":"2018-10-22T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairesimon.fr\/2018\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2024-05-04T20:52:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T18:52:19","slug":"a-propos-de","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/clairesimon.fr\/en\/a-propos-de\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CLAIRE SIMON was born in Britain, but spent most of her childhood in the Var. A student of ethnology, Arabic and Berber. She made her first self-taught short films at the beginning of 1980s. Her time at the Ateliers Varan proved decisive, where she discovered the virtues of direct cinema. Alongside her work as an editor, she made several short films, including LA POLICE, which won the best short film prize at the Belfort Festival.<\/p>

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In 1991, Claire Simon made a highly acclaimed drama series for the small screen, SCENES DE MENAGE, in which a housewife (Miou-Miou) performs a domestic task while thinking aloud about her married life.<\/span><\/p>

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A year later, with RECREATIONS, a documentary, she filmed human comedies in the playground of a nursery school, and the film was released in cinemas in 1997. Meanwhile, the filmmaker made a name for herself in the documentary world with COUTE QUE COUTE, At All Costs chronicling the struggle and downfall of a small ready meal company.<\/p>

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In 1997, she made her first feature film, SINON, OUI, based on a true story about a woman who invents a pregnancy and steals a child.<\/p>

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After this film, which was shown at Cannes as part of Director\u2019s Fortnight , she went on to shoot \u00c7A C'EST VRAIMENT TOI for television, with students from the TNS, mixing documentary and fiction at the European Parliament. Grand Prize for Fiction and Documentary at the Belfort Festival.<\/p>

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Drawing on authentic stories that reflect her taste for the novelistic, she filmed her 15-year-old daughter's flirtation (800 KM DE DIFFERENCE) and the novel of a lifetime (MIMI) premiered in the Forum at the Berlinale 2004. In 2006, she returned to the realm of pure fiction with \u00c7A BRULE\/ IT BURNS (presented at the Directors' Fortnight), about a rebellious teenager with a burning love for a fireman. In 2008 she directed LES BUREAUX DE DIEU, GOD\u2019S OFFICES in which famous actresses play the roles of family planning counsellors. (with Nathalie Baye, Nicole Garcia, Isabelle Carr\u00e9, Michel Boujenah, etc.) Grand prix de la SACD \u00e0 DIRECTOR\u2019S FORTNIGHT \u00e0 Cannes), drawing a thin line between documentary and fiction.<\/p>

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We find this characteristic in GARE DU NORD (2013 with Nicole Garcia, Fran\u00e7ois Damiens, Reda Kateb, Monia Chokri) and GEOGRAPHIE HUMAINE (documentary), in which the filmmaker compares our passage on earth to a passage through a railway station.
\nIn her highly acclaimed documentary LE BOIS DONT LES REVES SONT FAITS (2015), Claire Simon films the Bois de Vincennes as the accessible form of a lost paradise, a place where everyone comes to find refuge and invent their own utopia, it premiered at LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL<\/p>

LE CONCOURS (2016), won the Best Documentary Film Award at the 2016 Venice Biennale.
It was released in the US by Metrograph<\/p>

PREMIERES SOLITUDES (2017) was presented at the Forum at the Berlinale 2018. A funny and mischievous portrait that blows away all the clich\u00e9s about today's teenagers.<\/span><\/p>

A documentary serie LE VILLAGE 9X 52' or 18 X30. Nine hours of suspense around documentary and agriculture in a small village in the Ard\u00e8che. She made a feature documentary out of the serie THE GROCER\u2019S SON , THE MAYOR, THE VILLAGE AND THE WORLD, which pemiered at IDFA and was presented at True False and at the MOMI.<\/span><\/p>

During the lockdown she made a documentary for television \u201c Garage engine and men\u201d and prepared a feature \u201cI want talk about Duras\u201d which premiered at San Sebatian film festival, about the love between Marguerite Duras and Yann Andrea 38 years younger . A film about submission.<\/span><\/p>

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Then she did OUR BODY a documentary feature which opened the Forum at the Berlinale, released also in the USA by Cinema Guild ,and won a lot of prizes . In a the gynecological unit of a French Hospital she draws the epic life of women body from youth to old age, and she was caught also herself as a patient.<\/p>

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In 2023 she went back to children with a film about a elementary school in suburbs of Paris \u201cELEMENTARY\u201d showing the extraordinary desire to learn of the children and the incredible genius of the teachers. It has been selected by Cannes\u2019 Official Festival.<\/p>

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Filmography :<\/u><\/p>

2024 APPRENDRE<\/p>

2022 NOTRE CORPS<\/p>

2021 VOUS NE DESIREZ QUE MOI fiction<\/p>

2021 GARAGE DES MOTEIRS ET DES HOMMES<\/p>

2020 LE FILS DE L\u2019EPICIERE LE MAIRE LE VILLAGE ET LE MONDE<\/p>

2019 LE VILLAGE s\u00e9rie documentaire<\/p>

2017 PREMERES SOLITUDES<\/p>

2016 LE CONCOURS<\/p>

2015 LE BOIS DONT LES REVES SONT FAITS<\/p>

2013 GARE DU NORD fiction<\/p>

2013 GEOGRAPHIE HUMAINE<\/p>

2008 LES BUREAUX DE DIEU fiction<\/p>

2006 CA BRULE fiction<\/p>

2002 MIMI<\/p>

2001\u00a0800KM DE DIFFERENCE<\/p>

1997 SINON OUI fiction<\/p>

1995 COUTE QUE COUTE<\/p>

1992 RECREATIONS<\/p>

1991 SCENES DE MENAGE (10 CM) fiction<\/p>

1988 LA POLICE CM fiction<\/p>

1982 TANDIS QUE J\u2019AGONISE CM fiction
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Claire Simon est n\u00e9e en Grande-Bretagne, et passe la majeure partie de son enfance dans le Var. \u00c9tudiante en ethnologie, arabe et berb\u00e8re, elle d\u00e9croche des stages de montage gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que d\u2019Alger. Elle tourne ses premiers courts m\u00e9trages en autodidacte d\u00e9but 80. Son passage aux Ateliers Varan se r\u00e9v\u00e8le d\u00e9cisif : elle y … <\/p>\n

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