Éléonore Faucher (on the left) received the Prix Michel d’Ornano in Deauville in 2004 for Embroiderers. AFP/ Mychele Daniau
The talented director, crowned from her first film with five awards including the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at Cannes in 2004, died on August 27 following a long illness.
The talented director Éléonore Faucher ped away on August 27. She was only 50 years old. This sad news was announced by his companion and father of his two children, director Jean-Christophe Delpias.
The latter paid him a vibrant tribute on social networks, writing: “To you who knew her, worked with her, I have the immense sadness to announce the disappearance of Éléonore Faucher. Éléonore was an exceptional woman, a fighter, a sensitive artist. She fought her last fight (against cancer, editor’s note) with exemplary courage. She remains the extraordinary mother of our two children through whom she will continue to live.»
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Embroiderers by Éléonore Faucher in 2004, screenplay by Gaëlle Macé and Éléonore Faucher, with Lola Naymark, Ariane Ascaride…
The world of the seventh art recognized his talent from his first film Brodeuses, which in 2004 received a shower of awards. The Deauville Festival will give her and Gabrielle Macé the Michel d’Ornano Prize for the best French screenplay; Cannes rewarded her with the Critics’ Week Grand Prize and the SACD Prize; Finally, the Polish festival of Wroclaw will award him the Prize for the best foreign film.
Éléonore Faucher was born on January 10, 1973 in Nantes. Pionate about cinema from her adolescence, after the baccalaureate she decided to follow the teaching of the renowned national school Louis-Lumière. After having refined her art as an istant, she launched herself in 2003 by making Embroiderersthe story of a very young woman, hiding her pregnancy, who finds her vocation in embroidery.
In 2009, she adapted Sylvie Testud’s autobiography kiddies. This film, which brings together Amira Casar, Zoé Duthion, Jean-Pierre Martins and of course Sylvie Testud in her own role, will once again show all of Éléonore Faucher’s finesse as a filmmaker.