Coralie Fargeat

Coralie Fargeat
Fargeat in 2024
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Paris
OccupationFilmmaker

Coralie Fargeat (French: [kɔʁali faʁʒa]; born 1976) is a French film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 2017 debut feature film Revenge, for which she received awards from independent film festivals across the world.[1][2][3][4][5] Her second feature The Substance (2024), a feminist 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]

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  2. ^ "MONSTER FEST Announces 2017 Award Winners!". Monster Fest. 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  3. ^ "Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival". BIFAN. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  4. ^ "2018 Awards - Calgary Underground Film Festival". www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  5. ^ "Revenge - Cleveland International Film Festival :: March 30 - April 10, 2022". www.clevelandfilm.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  6. ^ "Director Coralie Fargeat Talks Obsession, Inspirations, and 'Revenge'". Film School Rejects. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  7. ^ Cills, Hazel (2018-05-18). "Revenge Director Coralie Fargeat on Playing With Film Clichés and the Artistic Power of Blood". Jezebel. G/O Media. Retrieved 2023-04-22.