BIOGRAPHY
Director’s Biography
At the outset of her baccalauréat, Coline Serreau avidly set her multiple artistic ambitions into motion. While pursuing literature studies, she entered the Conservatoire de Musique, began taking trapeze lessons at Annie Fratellini’s École du Cirque, as well as learned to dance. A dizzyingly polyvalent artist, she finally dedicated herself to the dramatic arts. After attending the École de la rue Blanche, she became an intern at the Comédie-Française and performed for the first time on stage in 1970. She penned her first script in 1973 ( On s'est trompé d'histoire d'amour de Jean-Louis Bertucelli ). Two years later she directed Rendez-vous, a short feature destined for television. In 1973, she built something of a reputation as an engaged political and feminist artist with her documentary Mais qu'est-ce qu'elles veulent ? The same year, she directed her first long-feature Pourquoi pas ! In 1982, her talent was consecrated with the worldwide success of Trois hommes et un couffin (1985), a film which portrays a male trio confronted with the responsibilities of paternity. In 1989, true to her political and social activism, she carried to the screen the interracial love story Romuald et Juliette . With her film La Crise , which relentlessly portrays a generation plagued by unemployment, divorce and exclusion, she met yet another critical and popular triumph. In La Belle Verte (1996), Coline Serreau directed herself as an alien character observing our planet, ravaged by its excessive consumerism. Five years later, she directed the ferocious Chaos which received six César nominations. In 2003, she reunited with her original male trio : Michel Boujenah , André Dussollier and Roland Giraud in the sequel to her earlier film. With Solutions locales pour un désordre global, Serreau returns to the documentary form to expose not so much the catastrophic state we have plunged our world into, but rather to evaluate with careful insight the remedies we must now imperatively apply.