13 Facts About Coralie Fargeat

Coralie Fargeat gained recognition with her debut feature film, Revenge, for which she received awards from several independent film festivals.

Coralie Fargeat decided to be a filmmaker when she was 16 or 17 years old.

In 2010, Coralie Fargeat attended La Femis, a prestigious cinema school in Paris.

Coralie Fargeat was selected to be in its Atelier Scenario, a year-long screenwriting workshop, where she was told her screenplay would never be made because of how violent and graphic it was.

In 2007, Coralie Fargeat co-created Les Fees cloches [fr] with Anne-Elisabeth Blateau, a comedy mini-series which she directed.

In 2022, Coralie Fargeat directed an episode of the Netflix series The Sandman.

Coralie Fargeat went on to win the festival's Best Screenplay award for the film.

Coralie Fargeat is fascinated with the suspension of disbelief, and is a fan of using imagery and symbols to express something simple in a powerful way.

Coralie Fargeat is fascinated with films that are able to create their own world and manage to exist outside the realm of reality, citing revenge films like Kill Bill and Rambo as examples of this.

In making graphic or gore-filled movies, Coralie Fargeat finds that balancing violent scenes with humor makes the violence more tolerable.

Coralie Fargeat believes that films that fill themselves with homages and references can push the viewer away from being able to identify with the film.

Coralie Fargeat describes this separation as "second-degree moments" and chooses to stay away from excessive references.

Coralie Fargeat finds it crucial to approach film and filmmaking with a genuine and sincere vision, stating she tries to "embrace [her] subject in its choices, its biases, its excesses, in its faults too" to achieve this.