Marina de Van explained

Marina de Van
Birth Date:	8 February 1971
Birth Place:	France
Occupation:	Film director, screenwriter, actress
Yearsactive:	1993–present

Marina de Van (pronounced as /fr/; born 8 February 1971)^{[1] [2]} is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Her brother is, he appeared with her in the 1998 film Sitcom playing her brother.^[4] In her directing debut In My Skin in 2002, he played an intern. ^[5]

She studied in the directing department of La Fémis, from which she was graduated in 1997.^[6]

Selected filmography

• See the Sea (1997) (actress, writer)
• Sitcom (1998) (actress)
• 8 Women (2002) (writer)
• In My Skin (2002) (writer/director)
• La clef (2007) (actress)
• Don't Look Back (2009) (writer/director)
• Hop-o'-My-Thumb (2011) (director/collaborating writer)
• Dark Touch (2012) (writer/director)

Further reading

• Tim Palmer "Don't Look Back: An Interview with Marina de Van," The French Review, 83:5, April 2010, pp. 96–103
• Tim Palmer, "Under Your Skin: Marina de Van and the Contemporary French Cinema du Corps,"Studies in French Cinema, 6:3, Fall 2006, pp. 171–181

Notes and References

1. Marina de Van in Book: Annuaire des anciens étudiants de la Fémis/Idhec. La fémis. 2013. 149. 978-2-907114-37-0. fr.
2. Sabrina . Champenois . 29 August 2013. Marina de Van. Entomologiste de soi . fr . Libération . France. 25 July 2015 .
3. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Don't Look Back. 17 May 2009. festival-cannes.com.
4. Web site: Adrien de Van, Vogue Actors . www.vogueactors.com . 20 November 2018 . en.
5. Kier-La Janisse
6. Web site: Marina De Van . 25 September 2024 . La Fémis . fr.