Diane Kurys

Diane Kurys was born in Lyon, France in 1948. She began her career as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault's company before transitioning into writing and film making. Her first film, PEPPERMINT SODA (1987), explored her life as a child of divorce and her relationship with her sister. The film won the NBR Award for Top Foreign Films, came second place at the NYFCC Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, while Diane herself won the Prix
Lois Delluc Award. Kurys has become known for her auto-biographical style of filmmaking as her work tends to focus on struggles that she herself has faced whether it be divorce in COUP DE FOUDRE (1983), her relationship with her sister in À LA FOLIE (1994), or the decision to move from acting to writing in A MAN IN LOVE (1987).

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