After working at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, Valérie Donzelli began her career as an actress, appearing in films by Anne Fontaine, Gilles Marchand, and Agnès Varda. Not content to simply continue as a successful actress, she went on to direct her first film, Queen of Hearts, in 2009, which was presented at the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers, in which she also played the lead role. Her second feature film, Declaration of War, is a moving autobiography that recounts her struggle with Jérémie Elkaim to keep their lives together faced with their child's illness. This film was highly acclaimed by the media and critics, and was selected at Cannes. It also won the Grand Prize at the Cabourg Film Festival, as well as the Jury Prize, Audience Prize, and Bloggers' Prize at the Paris Cinéma Festival and was a major success with audiences, attracting 800,000 spectators. After the release of her film Hand in Hand, starring Valérie Lemercier, in 2012, she presented her latest film, Marguerite et Julien, in the Official Competition at Cannes in 2015.
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Filmography (45)
Azuro
(2021 - Upcoming release)
Starring Grandma
(2020)
Madeleine Collins
(2020)
Notre Dame
(2019)
Losing It
(2019)
Algiers by Night
(2018)
Into the Forest
(2016)
The Storm Inside
(2015)
Cinéast(e)s
(2014)
The White Knights
(2014)
Marguerite et Julien
(2014)
Que d'amour
(2013)
Saint Laurent
(2013)
Grandes Ondes (À l'ouest)
(2012)
The Big Bad Wolf
(2012)
Hand in Hand
(2012)
En Ville
(2011)
L'Art de séduire
(2011)
I'm Alive and Beautiful
(2010)
Madeleine et le facteur
(2010)
Manù
(2010)
Declaration of War
(2010)
Pourquoi tu pleures ?
(2010)
Belleville Tokyo
(2010)
Juliette
(2009)
Queen of Hearts
(2009)
Abattoir
(2007)
C'est pour quand ?
(2007)
Odile...
(2006)
7 Years
(2006)
The Untouchable
(2006)
Mystification ou l'histoire des portraits
(2005)
The Man Who Dreamt of a Child
(2005)
The Time Has Come
(2005)
The Best Day of my Life
(2005)
Dead a Thousand Times
(2004)
Frédérique in Love
(2004)
In His Hands
(2004)
Le Lion volatil
(2003)
Ni vue ni connue
(2003)
Who Killed Bambi ?
(2003)
Hanging Offense
(2003)
Sweet Jacques
(2001)
Martha... Martha
(2000)
Next to Nothing
(2000)
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