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    Stormy Weather

    Solveig Anspach 2003 France/Iceland/Belgium Fiction color 90min French/English 35mm
    In a busy train station, behind the opening doors of an elevator stands a woman. Forty years old, she is leaning against one of its side. The moment the passengers are about to enter the elevator, she pushes them away. She panics. They argue. Cora, a young psychology student takes her defence. Finally, the panicking woman is arrested by the police. No identity, silent, she stands like "off the world ".

    Director

    Solveig Anspach

    Sólveig Anspach was an Icelandic-French film director and screenwriter. Born to a German-Romanian father Gerhard Anspach and an Icelandic mother Högna Sigurðardóttir, she spent most of her life living and working in France. After studying philosophy and clinical psychology in Paris, she enrolled in La Fémis and graduated with a diploma in directing in 1989. Her film Stormy Weather was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Anspach died of breast cancer on 7 August 2015 at the age of 54.

    Solveig Anspach

     2016 The Aquatic Effect 
     2013 Lulu femme nue 
     2012 Queen of Montreuil 
     2010 Anne et les tremblements (Short) 
     2009 Christine (TV Short documentary) 
     2009 The Rebel, Louise Michel (TV Movie) 
     2008 Back Soon 
     2007 Bienvenue chez... (TV Series documentary) 
    - Didda (2007) ... (as Solveig Anspach)
    - Manon (2007)
     2006 Les Européens (segment "Jane by the Sea") 
     2003 Stormy Weather 
     2001 Reykjavik, des elfes dans la ville (Documentary) 
     2001 Made in the USA 
     1999 Haut les coeurs! 
     1999 Que personne ne bouge! (TV Movie documentary) 
     1998 Barbara, tu n'es pas coupable (TV Movie documentary) 

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