Mona Achache (born 18 March 1981) is a French-Moroccan
film director, actress and screenwriter.
Career
Following a literary and theatrical education Mona Achache becomes an assistant director followed by screenwriting for fictional and documentary films. Becoming a mother at the age of 20, she produced a documentary film about birth in 2002.
In late 2022, she shot the
docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event".
Docudramas typic ...
''
Little Girl Blue'', with
Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard (; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, film producer, singer, and environmentalist who is widely known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters in both European and Hollywood productions.
She has received ...
portraying Achache's mother.
Achache wrote, directed and acted in the film.
Personal life
In the early 2000s Achache was in a relationship with director
Christophe Ruggia
Christophe Ruggia (born 7 January 1965) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Christophe Ruggia is a graduate of the Free Conservatory of French Cinema (''Conservatoire libre du cinéma français''), and laureate of the Fondation ...
. She later revealed that their relationship ended after he confessed to her that he had fallen in love with, and subsequently inappropriately touched, actress
Adèle Haenel
Adèle Haenel (; born 11 February 1989) is a French actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two César Awards from seven nominations and one Lumières Award from two nominations.
Haenel began her career as a child actres ...
, who was at that time underage, corroborating Haenel's account of sexual abuse at the hands of Ruggia.
Filmography
References
External links
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1981 births
Living people
French film actresses
French film directors
French people of Moroccan descent
21st-century French actresses
French women film directors
French women screenwriters
French screenwriters
Place of birth missing (living people)
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