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at the

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Career

Bruni Tedeschi's debut film as a director, '' It's Easier for a Camel...'', earned her two awards at the

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for Emerging Narrative Filmmaker and Best Actress in 2003. The film also won an award at the Ankara Flying Broom Women's Film Festival in 2004. It was also awarded

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for Best First Film. It was also entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. According to Tim Palmer the film is an engaging example of contemporary French pop-art cinema, referring to directors who wittily merge the features of intellectual/arthouse cinema with mass/popular cinema, putting Bruni Tedeschi in the company of other filmmakers such as François Ozon, Maîwenn le Besco,

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, Serge Bozon, etc. At the 2005

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, the Berlin International Film Festival, Bruni Tedeschi appeared to promote two films she had acted in: ''

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'' (2005), a three-segment film directed by

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, and

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, and '' Crustacés et Coquillages'', a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. In 2007, Bruni Tedeschi directed '' Actrices'', which won the '' Prix Spécial du Jury'' at the

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. Her 2022 film ''Les Amandiers ( Forever Young)'' also premiered in the main competition of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Personal life

Bruni Tedeschi was born in

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, Italy, in the

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of Italy, the daughter of Marisa Borini and Alberto Bruni Tedeschi. Like her younger sister,

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, she has settled in France. The girls were raised bilingually, as their family moved to Paris in 1973, fearing kidnappings and, later, the terrorism of the

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. She holds Italian nationality and acquired French nationality by

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on 31 July 2006. Her mother is Italian with French ancestry. Her father is Italian. She is a second cousin of Alessandra Martines. Tedeschi had a relationship with the French actor Louis Garrel from 2007 to 2012. Together they adopted a girl from

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in 2009. As of 2022, Bruni Tedeschi was in a relationship with French actor .

Selected filmography

References

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