Sophie Fillières Posthumously Wins Directors’ Fortnight Award with ‘This Life of Mine,’ ‘Universal Language’ Wins Audience Award
variety.comJamie Lang Late screenwriter-director Sophie Fillières‘ seventh and final feature, “This Life of Mine” was the opening film at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight and today wrapped things up as the France Writers’ Guild’s favorite French-language feature, winning the SACD Authors’ Favorite Prize.
In the film, Barbie, once a devoted mother and partner, faces the realities of middle age as she turns 55. Following a classic three-act structure, the film advances from comedy to tragedy to epiphany, at times toying with the absurd.
Said Anne Villacèque, SACD administrator: “This year, we had to decide from a particularly eclectic selection. Choosing between novel and poetry, right arm and left arm, grandiose or more modest films.
We chose the film whose heart beat the strongest and continued to move us long after seeing it. “A daring, delicate, unpredictable film, the culmination of a work full of dissonance and side steps, as its director liked to say, ” she added. “A film that walks on the edge of the abyss, clumsily, but always valiantly, sowing piles of little white pebbles along its path like so many magic formulas to help us resist.
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