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Coralie Fargeat
Fargeat in 2018
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Paris
OccupationFilmmaker

Coralie Fargeat (born 1976) is a French film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 2017 debut feature film Revenge, for which she received awards from independent film festivals across the world.[1][2][3][4][5]

Fargeat lists David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, David Lynch, and Michael Haneke as filmmakers who have influenced her, as well as crediting several South Korean filmmakers as stylistic inspiration.[6][7]

Early life

Fargeat was born and raised in Paris.[8] She decided to be a filmmaker when she was 16 or 17 years old.[9] Fargeat studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies before beginning work on film sets. She later attended La Fémis, a prestigious cinema school in Paris.[8][9] While she was there, she was selected to be in Atelier Scénario, a year-long screenwriting workshop, where she was told her screenplay would never be made because of how violent and graphic it was.[citation needed]

While attending La Fémis, Fargeat and a group of her director friends created a collective called La Squadra, where they all tried to edit their features together, facing similar difficulties as they each wanted to create genre films. They met twice a week and invited filmmakers and industry professionals to share their success stories with them, which helped them to gain a more realistic understanding of the film world, how it works, and the logistics of how to get their stories told.[9]

Career

Fargeat's first short film Le télégramme was released in 2003, a film about two women awaiting a postman's delivery during World War II. The film won 13 awards at several film festivals.[10]

In 2007, Fargeat co-created Les Fées cloches [fr] with Anne-Elisabeth Blateaur, a comedy mini-series which she also directed.[11]

Fargeat released her short follow-up Reality+ in 2014. The sci-fi tale received a nomination for the Jury Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.[12]

Fargeat's debut feature film was Revenge, a feminist revenge thriller about a young woman assaulted and left for dead. The film had its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival in the festival's Midnight Madness section,[13] and was selected to be screened at 23 additional film festivals.[14]

Inspired by revenge movies like Kill Bill, Rambo, and Mad Max, Fargeat was interested in exploring a character who would seem "weak" to others or the audience, but during the film would undergo a transformation into a "kind of superhero" that would set out to get her revenge.[15] Her first idea for Revenge had to do with the character of Jen, specifically this transformation aspect, and the rest came from there.[16]

While location scouting for Revenge, Fargeat tried to find a desert that could be "any" desert, one that didn't have a specific region or location tied to it. She was inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road, with the uncanny otherworldliness of it all. Fargeat found her villa and desert setting in Morocco, which is where the film was shot.[16]

Fargeat is a member and one of the founding signatories of Collectif 50/50, a group established with the purpose of working towards gender equality across the film industry.[17]

In February 2022, it was reported that Fargeat's next feature film will be The Substance, a feminist body horror film written by Fargeat and produced by Universal Pictures and Working Title Films. Production of the film, which stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Ray Liotta, began in May 2022.[18][19]

Fargeat teases that her next film, presumably The Substance, will "push boundaries with a different kind of violence" from Revenge.[20]

In 2022, Fargeat directed an episode of the Netflix series The Sandman.[21]

Filmmaking style and ideology

Fargeat is fascinated with a suspension of disbelief, and is a fan of using imagery and symbols to express something simple in a powerful way.[22] She is fascinated with films that are able to create their own world and manage to exist outside the realm of reality, citing revenge films like Kill Bill and Rambo as examples of this.[22]

In making graphic or gore-filled movies, Fargeat finds that balancing violent scenes with humor makes the violence more tolerable.[23]

Fargeat believes that films that fill themselves with homages and references can push the viewer away from being able to identify with the film.[24] She describes this separation as "second-degree moments" and chooses to stay away from excessive references. Fargeat finds it crucial to approach film and filmmaking with a genuine and sincere vision, stating she tries to "embrace [her] subject in its choices, its biases, its excesses, in its faults too" to achieve this.[24]

When in pre-production for Revenge, she stated that actress Matilda Lutz was chosen for the part partially because of her extensive trust in Fargeat, something that was important to her for the creation of the film.[24]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Le télégramme Director and writer Short film
2007 Les Fées Cloches Director TV series
2014 Reality+ Director and writer Short film
2017 Revenge Director, writer and editor
2022 The Sandman Director Episode: "Collectors"
TBA The Substance Director, writer and producer

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2004 Amiens International Film Festival Prix des Enfants de la Licorne Le télégramme Won
2005 Fajr International Film Festival International Competition - Best Short Narrative Film Won
2015 Corti Da Sogni Antonio Ricci International Short Film Festival European Sogni Award Reality+ Won [25]
2016 Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award for Best Narrative Short Nominated [12]
2017 Sitgès Film Festival Best Director Revenge Won [26]
Citizen Kane Award for Best New Director Won
Monster Fest Best International Feature Won [27]
2018 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival The Best of Bucheon Award Won [28]
Calgary Underground Film Festival Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature Won [29]
Cleveland International Film Festival New Direction Competition Nominated [30]
ReelWomenDirect Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman Nominated
2019 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best Director Nominated [31]
Best Limited Feature Nominated

See also

References

  1. ^ "The fantastic fable 'Jupiter's Moon' wins Sitges 2017 - Sitges Film Festival - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya". sitgesfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  2. ^ "MONSTER FEST Announces 2017 Award Winners!". Monster Fest. 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  3. ^ "Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival". BIFAN. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  4. ^ "2018 Awards - Calgary Underground Film Festival". www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  5. ^ "Revenge - Cleveland International Film Festival :: March 30 - April 10, 2022". www.clevelandfilm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  6. ^ "Director Coralie Fargeat Talks Obsession, Inspirations, and 'Revenge'". Film School Rejects. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  7. ^ Cills, Hazel (2018-05-18). "Revenge Director Coralie Fargeat on Playing With Film Clichés and the Artistic Power of Blood". Jezebel. G/O Media. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  8. ^ a b "Coralie Fargeat". Academy Films. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  9. ^ a b c "Rencontre avec Coralie Fargeat, la réalisatrice du très énervé Revenge". EcranLarge.com (in French). 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  10. ^ "Coralie Fargeat". Academy Films. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  11. ^ Carré d'art : Byron, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dalí, Hallier, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Anagramme Editions, 2008, p. 143. ISBN 978-2-35035-189-6
  12. ^ a b "Reality + | 2016 Tribeca Festival". Tribeca. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  13. ^ Erbland, Kate (2017-09-13). "'Revenge': Inside the TIFF Midnight Madness Premiere So Intense That Paramedics Were Called". IndieWire. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  14. ^ "REVENGE". monsite (in French). Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  15. ^ Fargeat, Coralie (2018-05-09). "Matilda Lutz & Coralie Fargeat on women fighting back in Revenge - Exclusive Interview". YouTube. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  16. ^ a b Fargeat, Coralie (2018-05-04). "Coralie Fargeat and Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz Talk about 'Revenge'". YouTube. Build Series LDN. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  17. ^ "Les signataires | Collectif 5050". collectif5050.com. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  18. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (2022-01-31). "Demi Moore & Margaret Qualley To Star In Universal/Working Title's 'The Substance'; 'Revenge' Helmer Coralie Fargeat Directs Her Script". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  19. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (2022-02-15). "Ray Liotta Joins Demi Moore & Margaret Qualley In Coralie Fargeat's The Substance'". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  20. ^ Murray, Tim (2020-06-11). "Coralie Fargeat interview: Revenge, extra features, physical media". Film Stories. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  21. ^ "Coralie Fargeat Directing "The Substance" for Universal, Demi Moore & Margaret Qualley to Star". womenandhollywood.com. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  22. ^ a b Fargeat, Coralie (2018-05-09). "Matilda Lutz & Coralie Fargeat on women fighting back in Revenge - Exclusive Interview". YouTube. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  23. ^ Fargeat, Coralie (2018-05-04). "Coralie Fargeat and Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz Talk about 'Revenge'". YouTube. Build Series LDN. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  24. ^ a b c "Rencontre avec Coralie Fargeat, la réalisatrice du très énervé Revenge". EcranLarge.com (in French). 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  25. ^ "European Sogni Award – 2015" (in Italian). 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  26. ^ "The fantastic fable 'Jupiter's Moon' wins Sitges 2017 - Sitges Film Festival - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya". sitgesfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  27. ^ "MONSTER FEST Announces 2017 Award Winners!". Monster Fest. 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  28. ^ "Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival". BIFAN. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  29. ^ "2018 Awards - Calgary Underground Film Festival". www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  30. ^ "Revenge - Cleveland International Film Festival :: March 30 - April 10, 2022". www.clevelandfilm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  31. ^ "Fangoria Resurrects the Chainsaw Awards Celebrating the Horror Movies Oscar Missed". MovieWeb. 2019-01-22. Retrieved 2021-12-07.

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