Triet, Justine

Justine Triet _{(July 17, 1978, Fécamp, France)}

Justine Triet (born 17 July 1978) is a French film director, screenwriter and editor.

She is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Her debut feature, Age of Panic, was presented as part of the ACID programme at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

“The more fiction I direct, the more I like the ‘trickery’. I realise that it probably allows me to unveil more precise and deeper things than the fake and stolen ‘reality’. But it took me some time to come to that decision. That being said, I will never direct like someone who never made documentaries before, which means that I have certain instincts when directing.”

Justine Triet has directed a couple of films dealing with the place of the individual within a group: Sur place (2007) was shot right in the middle of the 2006 student protest; Solférino (2009) was filmed during the 2007 French presidential election; in her next effort, Vilaine fille mauvais garçon (2012), Triet gave a startling account of life in a São Paulo shantytown and garnered many awards in the festival circuit.

Her first feature, La bataille de Solférino (2013) is a skillful mix of a documentary (five years after Solférino (2009), she records the second ballot of the French elections for President live in the streets of Paris) and fiction (the crisis experienced on that very day by a divorced couple).

La bataille de Solférino (2013) has been acclaimed by most critics as one of the best works of the latest new wave of French directors.

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