Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

406 • FONMARTY, KATHLEEN
He directed his two fi rst animated shorts in England,
where he studied painting. After living for a while in
the USA, he settled in France in the early 1960s.
Filmography
1952 Animation Genesis (animated short; UK)
1954 A Short Vision (animated short; UK)
1964 Appétit d’Oiseau (animated short; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
1965 Un Garçon plein d’Avenir (animated short; also
screenwriter, cinematographer)
Plus Vite (animated short; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
1966 Awakening (animated short; Canada)
1967 Brainy Beauty (animated short; Canada)
Narcissus (animated short)
L’Eveil (animated short; also cinematographer)
1968 La Belle Cérébrale (short)
1969 Women’s Faces (animated short; Canada)
1971 Metadata (animated short; Canada)
Narcissus (animated short)
1972 Je, tu, elles / USA: I, You, They (also screenwriter,
dialogist, animator; shot in 1969)
1974 La Faim / Hunger (animated short; also animator;
Canada)
1977 Envisage (animated short)
Rêve (animated short)
FONMARTY, KATHLEEN
A script supervisor (1977 La Question / USA: The
Question, Laurent Heynemann; Comme la Lune, Joël
Séria; 1980 La Petite Sirène, Roger Andrieux; 1984
Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers, Tommy Chong,
USA; 1990 Daddy Nostalgie / UK: These Foolish Things
/ USA: Daddy Nostalgia, Bertrand Tavernier) and author
of continuity (1978 Si vous n’aimez pas ça, n’en
dégoûtez pas les Autres, Raymond Lewin, shot in 1973),
she also played in an episode of the Haute Tension TV
series (episode “Eaux troubles,” Alain Bonnot).
Filmography
1988 Un Arbre de Noël pour Deux (short)
1991 Jalousie (also screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist,
France / Italy)
FONTAINE, ANNE (Anne Sibertin-Blanc / July 15,
1959, Luxembourg–)
She grew up in Portugal and settled in Paris at age
sixteen. After studying philosophy and music at the
Conservatory, she started as a dancer with Joseph
Russillo’s theater ballet. Then she switched to acting
and made her debut onstage in 1978 in Notre-Dame
de Paris, directed by Robert Hossein. She played in
TV movies and series (1980 Les Mystères de Paris / Die
Geheimnisse von Paris, 6 52', André Michel, France /
West Germany; 1982 En votre aimable Règlement, Jean-
Claude Charnay; 1984 Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornélius,
6 52', Maurice Frydland; 1985 Entre Chats et Loups,
François Porcile; 1986 Grand Hôtel, 6 52', Jean Kerchbron;
Série rose / Erotisches zur Nacht / US video:
Softly from Paris, episodes “La Revanche,” Harry Kümel;
“Une Villa à la Campagne,” Maurice Fasquel; 1987 La
Baleine blanche, Jean Kerchbron; 1988 Carte de Presse,
TV miniseries, Michel Favart) and fi lms (1980 Tendres
Cousines / Zärtliche Cousinen / UK: Cousins in Love / USA:
Tender Cousins, David Hamilton; 1981 Si ma Gueule vous
plaît . . . , Michel Caputo; 1985 P.R.O.F.S., Patrick Schulmann;
1999 Pas de Scandale / USA: Keep It Quiet, Benoît
Jacquot). She has been a fi lm director since 1993. Her
brother is Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc (b. 1960).
Filmography
1993 Les Histoires d’Amour fi nissent mal en général
Augustin (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1995 Augustin (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1996 L’@mour est à réinventer / L’@mour est à réinventer,
Dix Histoires d’Amour au Temps du Sida
/ US DVD: Love Reinvented (short; segment
“Tapin du Soir”; also adapter)
1997 Nettoyage à sec / USA: Dry Cleaning (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1999 Augustin Roi du Kung-Fu / USA: Augustin, King
of Kung-Fu (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
France / Spain)
2001 Comment j’ai tué mon Père / USA: How I Killed
My Father / US DVD: My Father and I (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist; France / Spain)
2003 Nathalie . . . (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
France / Spain)
2005 Entre ses Mains (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist; France / Belgium)
2006 Nouvelle Chance (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
2008 La Fille de Monaco (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
Coco avant Chanel / UK and USA: Coco before
Chanel (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
FONTANA, BÉPI (1923, France–)
An occasional actor (1969 Trafi c de Filles, Jean Maley,
shot in 1967) and production manager (1969 Quai du