Monique Rutler (born 2 February 1941) is a French-Portuguese director, screenwriter and film editor.

Life and career

Rutler was born in

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning '' mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace a ...

, in the Haut-Rhin department. After the death of her father she moved to Portugal with her mother. She studied filmmaking at the Instituto das Novas Profissões and at the

Lisbon Theatre and Film School The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (''Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema'') of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the ...

. She started her career as a film editor and later as an assistant of prominent directors including José Nascimento and

António de Macedo António de Macedo (5 July 1931 − 5 October 2017) was Portuguese filmmaker, writer, university professor and lecturer. He gave up filmmaking in the 1990s as he felt systematically excluded from the state support programs of the Portuguese Mi ...

. After directing some documentaries, Rutler made her feature film debut in 1981, with ''Velhos São os Trapos''. Her films are characterized by strong female main characters, and often deal with

machismo Machismo (; ; ; ) is the sense of being " manly" and self-reliant, a concept associated with "a strong sense of masculine pride: an exaggerated masculinity". Machismo is a term originating in the early 1930s and 1940s best defined as hav ...

. In 2018 she was entered into the . In 2019 she was awarded a Career Prize at the Porto Femme - International Film Festival.

Selected filmography

* ''Velhos São os Trapos'' (1981) * ''Jogo de Mão'' (1983) * ''O Carro da Estrela'' (1989) * ''Solo de Violino'' (1990)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rutler, Monique 1941 births Living people Mass media people from Mulhouse Portuguese screenwriters French screenwriters Portuguese film directors French film directors Portuguese film editors French film editors Lisbon Theatre and Film School alumni