The talented director Éléonore Faucher passed 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 by 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 led her last fight (against cancer, Ed) with exemplary courage. She remains the extraordinary mother of our two children through whom she will continue to live.
Brodeuses 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. Passionate about cinema from her adolescence, after the baccalaureate she decided to follow the teaching of the renowned national school Louis-Lumière. After refining her art as an assistant, she launched herself in 2003 by making Brodeuses, the story of a very young woman, hiding her pregnancy, who finds her vocation in embroidery.
In 2009, she adapted the autobiography of Sylvie Testud Gamines. 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.