A major Belgian filmmaker and producer. Marion Hänsel, who brought to the screen the novel by Yann Queffélec Les Noces Barbares , but also Dust of the Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee, died on Monday at the age of 71.
Dust, worn by Jane Birkin and Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1985, had greatly contributed to the notoriety of Marion Hänsel, described as a filmmaker of the intimate.
Two years later, she had brought to the screen Les Noces barbares by Frenchman Yann Queffélec, a story about the unloved childhood that won the Goncourt Prize (1985). "It offered indoor trips outside," wrote the Belgian daily Le Soir on Tuesday .
"Marion Hänsel was a water girl"
Born in February 1949 in Marseille to an Antwerp father, trained in part at the Actor's Studio in New York (United States), the director, whose real name is Marion Ackermans, was greatly influenced by water, the sea , the elements.
She had started her career as an actress by landing a few small roles, notably with Agnès Varda in Une chante, l'histoire pas (1977), La Libre Belgique recalls .
At the origin of fifteen feature films, including in particular Black Ocean and Upstream of the River , dating respectively from 2010 and 2016, Marion Hänsel had also signed last year a kind of self-portrait entitled It was a small ship , intermixing archive footage and personal anecdotes with poetry, which today has become a touching cinematographic testament.
“ Black ocean , Upstream of the river , there was a small ship : the Belgian filmmaker Marion Hänsel was a daughter of water. She could cross the ocean on a freighter and make a script out of it. It leaves a mark on European cinema “on earth as it is in heaven” where it has just arrived, ”greeted Gilles Jacob, former president of the Cannes Film Festival, on Twitter.
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