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Jessica Hausner

Jessica Hausner

Highest Rated: 91% Lourdes (2009)

Lowest Rated: 65% Club Zero (2023)

Birthday: Oct 6, 1972

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria

Writer and director Jessica Hausner developed a deep love of film as she grew up in Vienna, Austria. She would spend her days at the city's independent cinemas consuming films. Her passion for classic movies showed through in her stylish and intelligent scripts and direction. Hausner studied at the Academy for Film in Vienna before writing short "Kilometer 123,5" (1994) and writing/directing "Flora" (1995) and "Inter-View" (1995). However it was her debut feature as writer and director, 2001's "Lovely Rita," that brought her to wider attention after it screened at Cannes, with British newspaper The Guardian comparing Hausner to fellow Austrian auteurs Michael Haneke and Ulrich Seidl. Her international reputation continued to grow with dark mystery "Hotel" (2004). She also started to produce other people's work, including Benjamin Heisenberg's "Sleeper" (2005) and Antonin Svoboda's "You Bet Your Life" (2005). Hausner wrote and directed yet another short, "Toast" (2006), before her third feature "Lourdes" (2006) which won a clutch of awards on the European film festival circuit (with Hausner picking up four awards at the Venice Film Festival, amongst others). 2014's humorous period drama "Amour fou" further cemented Hausner's standing as one of Europe's most respected directors.

Filmography

Movies

Credit
65% 50% Club Zero Director,
Screenwriter
$11.4K 2023
67% 40% Little Joe Director,
Screenwriter
$23.3K 2019
88% 49% Amour fou Director,
Screenwriter
$11.9K 2014
91% 69% Lourdes Director,
Screenwriter
$9.4K 2009
No Score Yet 50% You Bet Your Life Producer - 2005
No Score Yet 34% Hotel Director,
Writer
- 2004
No Score Yet 40% Lovely Rita Director,
Writer
- 2001