Biography

Born in 1947 in Berlin. At seventeen, she met Robert Bresson with whom she makes Au hasard Balthazar (1966). She then played in La Chinoise (1967) Jean-Luc Godard, Théorème de Pasolini (1968), La semence de l'homme of Marco Ferreri (1969) ... In 1988, she escapes from the film credits to return to writing: Des filles bien élevéés (1988, Grand Prix de la nouvelle de le SGDL), Canines (1993, Prix Goncourt des Lycéens), Une poignée de gens (1998, Grand Prix du Roman of the French Academy) and, more recently, in Sept garçons (2002) and Je m'appelle Elizabeth (2004).

In 2007, the writer returns again to her film debut with Jeune fille (Gallimard, 2007), a novel-portrait of Anne Wiazemsky a young girl when she makes Au hasard Balthazar with Robert Bresson. In the instant of a memory, she compiles miniportraits, that of Godard, or Lazareff Klossowski, touching the excitement of the sixties. The word "novel" surprises since all the names are true and are real situations. The author justifies by citing cinema notes of Bresson: "I invent you, but I invent you as you are. "" Thanks to her caressing writing, Anne Wiazemsky still manages to keep a proper distance. Sometimes intimate, attentive to the slightest regard of the master, his requirements, his ambiguities, his duplicity, his suspicious beauty. Sometimes laughing naively, regaining the glory of this "jeune fille" who bursts out laughing at an old man playing with his cats. (...) Jeune fille is a solar novel it speaks to us all: our lost innocence, our exaltation and our insolence.

Suddenly, Francois Mauriac also becomes our grandfather saying, "Your Robert Bresson seems to me to be a funny zigotto". She's right, Anne Wiazemsky, memory is a great thing when it is offered modestly by a complice novelist." (C.
Ferniot, Reading, February 2007)