Coralie Fargeat | |
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Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Paris, France |
Occupation | Filmmaker |
Coralie Fargeat (French: [kɔʁali faʁʒa]; born 1976) is a French film director and screenwriter. She gained international recognition with her 2017 debut feature film Revenge, for which she received awards from several independent film festivals.[1][2][3][4][5] This was followed by her second feature, The Substance (2024), a satirical body horror film starring Demi Moore, screened in the main competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where Fargeat won the Best Screenplay award.
Fargeat lists David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, David Lynch, and Michael Haneke as filmmakers who have influenced her, as well as crediting several South Korean filmmakers as stylistic inspiration.[6][7]