Catherine Corsini

A student of Antoine Vitez, she gradually discovered a taste for writing, and becoming a screenwriter and directing a number of short films.

In 1987, Catherine Corsini signs her first feature film, Poker, a film noir with Caroline Cellier. She goes on to work for the small screen, directing Interdit d'amour, starring Nathalie Richard as an abusive mother. The actress stars in her second feature, Lovers. The film is critically acclaimed and presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994. Her third feature, The New Eve, starring Karin Viard, is released in 1999.

Her next film, Replay, tells the troubling story of the friendship between Emmanuelle Béart and Pascale Bussières. After this dark work, in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, the filmmaker returns to comedy, with The Very Merry Widows, starring Jane Birkin, followed by Ambitious. She writes her seventh feature, Leaving, for Kristin Scott Thomas, a portrait of a woman ready to leave everything for love.

In 2012, Catherine Corsini directs Three Worlds, in which Raphaël Personnaz finds himself confronted with a profound moral dilemma. She then directs a partly autobiographical drama, Summertime, a passionate love story between Cécile De France and Izïa Higelin.

In 2018, she transposed Christine Angot's novel An Impossible Love to the screen, for which Virginie Efira is nominated for the 2019 César for Best Actress. In 2021, The Divide, is selected in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and wins the César for Best Supporting Actress.

Her latest film, Homecoming, is in Competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.