Born in Dijon, France, in 1960, she ran the local film club and dropped out to go to Los Angeles. She was assistant director in “A Room in Town” (1982), by Jacques Demy, and edited “Vagabond” (1985), by Agnès Varda. She directed the feature films “Thick Skinned” (1988), “Travolta and Me” (1993, 19th Mostra), “The King’s Daughters” (2000), “Riding Dostoevsky” (2004), “Of Women and Horses” (2011), “Paul Sanchez is Back” (2018), and “Saturn Bowling” (2022, 46th Mostra), presented and awarded at film festivals like Cannes and Locarno.