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Céline Sciamma

Highest Rated: 99% My Life as a Zucchini (2016)

Lowest Rated: 67% The Balconettes (2024)

Birthday: Nov 12, 1980

Birthplace: Pontoise, France

French director Céline Sciamma first impressed audiences with her directorial debut, "Water Lilies" (2007). The independent drama dealt with a team of teenage girls on a synchronized swimming team whose developing sexualy creates confusion, elation, and fear. Sciamma, a graduate of Paris' prestigious Le Femis screenwriting program, was intensely interested in the fluidity of sexuality, as well as the unique perspective of youth, infusing these ideas into "Water Lilies," which was chosen for screening in the Un certain regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, and went on to be nominated for three Cesar Awards. The filmmaker's next move was directing a short film for the French government's anti-homophobia campaign called "Pauline" (2009). Soon, Sciamma was moving on to further explore similar themes in her next feature film "Tomboy" (2011), following the story of a nine-year-old girl who chooses to begin living her life as a boy. The film's uniquely sparse directorial style, insight into gender identity, and incisive depiction of childhood earned Sciamma comparisons to greats like Francois Truffaut. Sciamma wasted no time developing her next feature, "Girlhood" (2014), a film inspired by the groups of teenage girls she would often see loitering in public places around Paris like the Metro station or the the Les Halles shopping centre, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015.

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Highest-Rated Movies

99% 89% My Life as a Zucchini
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97% 81% Petite Maman Watchlist 97% 92% Portrait of a Lady on Fire Watchlist
96% 73% Girlhood
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96% 83% Tomboy
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95% 76% Being 17 Watchlist 83% 75% Paris, 13th District Watchlist
82% 68% Water Lilies
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75% 29% Playlist Watchlist
67% The Balconettes
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Balconettes 67% 2024 Screenwriter Playlist 75% 29% 2021 Screenwriter Petite Maman 97% 81% 2021 Director, Screenwriter, Costume Designer Paris, 13th District 83% 75% 2021 Screenwriter Portrait of a Lady on Fire 97% 92% 2019 Director, Screenwriter French waves 2017 Self My Life as a Zucchini 99% 89% 2016 Screenwriter My Life as a Courgette 94% 2016 Screenwriter Being 17 95% 76% 2016 Screenwriter Girlhood 96% 73% 2014 Director, Screenwriter Tomboy 96% 83% 2011 Director, Screenwriter, Writer Ivory Tower 65% 2010 Screenwriter Pauline 2009 Director Water Lilies 82% 68% 2007 Director, Screenwriter
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