Filmmaker

A graduate of La Fémis – the French national film school – (1994), Isabelle Broué has spent thirty years exploring the mechanics of desire and the territories of the intimate. From her master's thesis on Ernst Lubitsch (The "Unsaid" or the Dramatic Virtue of Irony), she has placed humor and the subtlety of the unspoken at the heart of her storytelling.

Her work has taken her to the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes (À corps perdu – Boundless), a TV film for Arte's "petite caméra" series (Paris-Deauville), and theatrical release with the success of Tout le plaisir est pour moi (The Pleasure Is All Mine), followed by the singular adventure of Lutine, which she produced and distributed herself.

Filmography

2018 : Lutine – Feature film (Best Film and Best Screenplay awards, VIWIFF, Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, 2017)
2004 : Tout le plaisir est pour moi (The Pleasure Is All Mine) – Feature film (200,000 admissions in France)
2000 : Paris-Deauville – TV film for Arte (Lauriers du Sénat, Best First Fiction Work)
2000 : À corps perdu (Boundless) – Short film, 27 min (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes)
1998 : Les Jours bleus (Blue Days) – Short film, 25 min (Best Performance award, Côté-Court)
1995 : Henri Cartan, une vie de mathématicien – Documentary, 52 min (CNRS)
1994 : Presse-citron (Vanilla-Lemon) – Short film, 16 min (La Fémis graduation film)
1993 : Chocolat amer (Bitter Chocolate) – Short film, 9 min (La Fémis, 35mm)

Project in Development

Une histoire d'amour(s) — Comedy of manners

Two couples of friends venture into open relationships... and turn their lives into a joyful minefield.

Nathalie and Vincent, in their fifties, twenty years together. At a party, their solid equilibrium begins to crack. Nathalie discovers the idea of an open relationship — and confides in Vincent, who assures her she is free... as long as he doesn't know the details. Under the bewildered eyes of their children, the domestic disorder spirals into glorious chaos.