Watch three Valérie Donzelli films for free streaming

On the occasion of the release of her latest film, À pied d’oeuvre, France Télévisions is honoring the director.

Since the end of the 90s, Valérie Donzelli has distinguished herself both as an actress and as a film director.

His latest feature film, On the jobwon the prize for best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival, is released this Wednesday in French cinemas. The film, which stars Bastien Bouillon, tells the life of the writer Franck Courtès.

But Valérie Donzelli’s cinema is above all a couple affair. Hers first, which she features in two films: The Queen of Apples And War is declared. These films tell, under the veil of fiction, his breakup with his partner of fifteen years and father of his two children, the actor Jérémie Elkaïm, then the couple’s battle to save their young son suffering from brain cancer. In the casting we find… Valérie Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm.

Then comes Marguerite and Julienin official selection at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the couple’s latest collaboration. This time, it’s Anaïs Demoustier who faces Jérémie Elkaïm. In this screenplay initially written for Truffaut, the filmmaker depicts the incestuous relationship of the infamous Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet.

In 2023, the actress-director returns with another love story. In terror and blood, Love and the forests is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Eric Reinhardt. The film with Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud won the César for best adaptation in 2024.

In the meantime, there is the musical film Hand in Hand And Our Lady. Two works in the form of romantic and Parisian wanderings, with funny and offbeat characters.

But this year Valérie Donzelli leaves the couple behind and returns solo with On the job.

In the meantime, we can find War is declared, Marguerite and Julien And Hand in hand on France Télévisions for one month.

From February 2 to 8 French Cinematheque also honors the director with a retrospective Valerie Donzelli.