Valérie Müller

After studying cinema at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where she took classes with Éric Rohmer, Valérie Müller worked as a production assistant and stage manager at Ex Nihilo. She made her first short film, Un matin blanc, in 1995, followed by La Surface de réparation in 1998, starring Marion Cotillard. The following year, she made L’Effet Casimir for France 3, the culmination of several films on the work of dancer and choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. As part of Canal +’s Écrire Pour collection, she directed Les Hommes s’en souviendront in 2007, starring Marina Foïs in the role of Simone Veil.

Her first feature film, Le Monde de Fred, was released in 2014.

In 2020, Danser sa peine, in which the filmmaker again films Angelin Preljocaj’s work with women incarcerated at the Baumettes prison in Marseille, won the Grand Prix Documentaire national at the FIPADOC.

She is currently working on a new documentary about three generations of women boxers for France Télévisions, looking at how women take on male stereotypes and their relationship with the body.

Source: CNC