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Léa Mysius

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  • Director
  • Producer
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Léa Mysius was born in Bordeaux on 4 April 1989. She spent her first thirteen years in the Medoc region (where she filmed most of her first feature "Ava", whose eponymous character is a... thirteen-year-old girl!) Following her parents, she lived on the Reunion island until she graduated from high school. She then came back to Metropolitan France. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris before joining the Femis School. Still learning the ropes of her trade at the film school, she was already noticed for her talent both as a writer and director. Her first short Cadavre exquis (2013). told an unusual and unsettling story, that of a boy fascinated by the corpse of a beautiful dead girl. It earned Léa Mysius the SACD Award at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Her next two shorts, Thunderbirds (2014) and L'île jaune (2016) (the last one co-directed by cinematographer Paul Guilhaume), were in turn shown in many festivals and also won awards. Léa Mynius was only 26 when in the Summer of 2016 she started filming Ava (2017), her first feature. As offbeat as her shorts, 'Ava' has another young teenager as its central figure, and one who loses sight into the bargain. And the second character is a young gypsy rejected by his family. Not the standard French film heroes indeed. Moreover, seeing 'Ava', one realizes that Léa Mysius is already a genuine author (adolescent malaise, the sea, the water, dogs, among others, are characteristic elements present in two or several of her four films). A fruitful career is undoubtedly in store for Léa Mynius, one of the youngest and - not one of the least personal - French directors
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Noée Abita in Ava (2017)
Ava
6.7
  • Writer(dialogue)
  • 2017
The Five Devils (2022)
The Five Devils
6.7
  • Writer
  • 2022
Valentine Cadic and Corentin Cochet in Thunderbirds (2014)
Thunderbirds
7.6
Short
  • Writer
  • 2014
L'île jaune (2016)
L'île jaune
7.0
Short
  • Writer
  • 2016

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Writer

  • Margaret Qualley in Stars at Noon (2022)
    Stars at Noon
  • The Five Devils (2022)
    The Five Devils
  • Lucie Zhang and Makita Samba in Paris, 13th District (2021)
    Paris, 13th District
  • Roschdy Zem in Oh Mercy! (2019)
    Oh Mercy!
  • Farewell to the Night (2019)
    Farewell to the Night
  • Samouni Road (2018)
    Samouni Road
  • Noée Abita in Ava (2017)
    Ava
    • (dialogue)
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard in Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
    Ismael's Ghosts
  • L'île jaune (2016)
    L'île jaune
  • Bison 6
  • One in a Million (2014)
    One in a Million
  • Valentine Cadic and Corentin Cochet in Thunderbirds (2014)
    Thunderbirds
  • L'éblouie
  • Fin d'automne
  • Ce qui nous échappe

Director

  • The Five Devils (2022)
    The Five Devils
  • Noée Abita in Ava (2017)
    Ava
  • L'île jaune (2016)
    L'île jaune
  • Valentine Cadic and Corentin Cochet in Thunderbirds (2014)
    Thunderbirds
  • Brune Renault and Elsa Letourneux in Cadavre exquis (2013)
    Cadavre exquis

Producer

  • Ghost Pleasure (2019)
    Ghost Pleasure
  • Gueule d'Isère (2018)
    Gueule d'Isère

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    Twin sister of Esther Mysius and companion of Paul Guilhaume.

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