L'ÉCONOMIE DU COUPLE

Joachim Lafosse

(Uccle, Belgium, 1975) studied at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, from 1997 to 2001. The short film Tribu was his thesis project with which he participated to the Namur International Festival, receiving the award for Best Short Film in 2001. His first feature, Folie privée (2004), won the FIPRESCI Award at the Bratislava International Film Festival. Of his following movies, Ça rend heureux (2006) was in competition in Locarno, while Nue propriété (2006), starring Isabelle Huppert, participated to the Venice Film Festival, where it won the SIGNIS Award. Our Children (2012) was presented in Cannes’ Certain regard section, won four Magritte Awards, and was nominated to represent Belgium in the Foreign Films section of the Academy Awards. In 2015 he directed the drama The White Knights, while the next year he presented After Love in Cannes’ Quinzaine de réalisateurs section, receiving the award for Best Film from the Belgian Trade Union of cinematographic critics. In 2018 he received a nominee in Venice for Keep Going. He presented his last film, The Restless (2021) at the Cannes Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Tribu (cm, 2001), Folie privée (2004), Ça rend heureux (2006), Nue propriété (Proprietà privata, 2006), Élève libre (Élève libre - Lezioni private, 2008), Avant les mots (doc., 2010), À perdre la raison (2012), Les chevaliers blancs (2015), L’économie du couple (Dopo l’amore, 2016), Continuer (2018), Les intranquilles (2021).