Anne Fontaine

Anne Fontaine

Anne Fontaine started her career as a dancer and actor. She marked her directorial debut in 1993 with Les Histoires d'Amour finissent mal en général (Love affairs usually end badly) which won France's Prix Jean Vigo Award. She has directed over a dozen feature films and tends to move between serious dramas and lighter comedies.

OVID is proud to have three of her films—In His Hands (2005), Gemma Bovary (2015) and The Innocents (2016).

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Anne Fontaine
  • Gemma Bovery
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    Gemma Bovery

    Gemma Bovery

    Directed by Anne Fontaine • Drama • With Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng • 2015 • 99 minutes

    In this vibrant seriocomic re-imagining of Flaubert’s literary classic Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her fur...

  • In His Hands
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    In His Hands

    In His Hands

    Directed by Anne Fontaine • Drama • With Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré • 2005 • 90 minutes

    In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims...

  • The Innocents
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    Directed by Anne Fontaine • Drama • With Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza • 2016 • 115 minutes

    Warsaw, December 1945: the second World War is finally over and French Red Cross doctor Mathilde (Lou de Laage) is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked...

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