Niki

Niki

TIFF65: Greek Premiere
Paris, 1952. A young woman named Niki has recently moved from the US with her husband and daughter. Despite this newfound distance from the family and country that were suffocating her, disturbing flashbacks of her childhood continue to invade her thoughts. In the hell she is about to discover, Niki finds in her art a weapon to free herself. So Niki survives before she is ultimately reborn – this time as Niki de Saint Phalle: one of the most versatile female artists of the 20th century, whose practice was infused with unprecedented violence, tenderness, vision, and passion, and spanned a wide variety of mediums (painting, sculpture, performance, and film). The directorial debut of Céline Sallette, one of the most prominent emerging France stars – whom we first met in Bertrand Bonello’s House of Tolerance follows, in her own words, “the metamorphosis of a young model, a pure product of her times, into an artist with knife-cropped hair shooting at her canvases with a rifle to create art.” An inspired and inspiring biopic, assertive of art's healing and transformative powers.
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Direction: Céline Sallette
Script: Céline Sallette, Samuel Dou
Cinematography: Victor Seguin
Editing: Clémence Diard
Sound: Jean-Pierre Duret
Music: Para One
Actors: Charlotte Le Bon, John Robinson, Damien Bonnard, Judith Chemla, Alain Fromager, Virgile Bramly, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Nora Arnezeder, John Fou, Quentin Dolmaire, Hugo Brunswick, Eric Pucheu, Xavier de Guillebon, Romain Sandère
Production: Cinéfrance Studios, Wild Bunch
Producers: David Gauquié, Julien Deris, Florence Gastaud
Co-production: France 2 Cinéma, Onze Cinq, Panache Productions, La Compagnie Cinématographique, Proximus Voo Be Tv, Hologram
Co-producers: Jalil Lespert, Jean-Luc Ormières
Costumes: Marion Moulès, Matthieu Camblor
Production Design: Rozenn Le Gloahec
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 98'
Distribution in Greece: Rosebud.21
Contact: Pulsar Content

Céline Sallette

Multi-talented French actor Céline Sallette has starred alongside Philippe Garrel, Clint Eastwood, Jacques Audiard and Pascal Bonitzer. In 2012, her performance in House of Tolerance by Bertrand Bonello was showcased in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and earned her a César nomination and the Romy Schneider Award. In 2014, she returned to the Croisette for Geronimo by Tony Gatlif. Best known for her performance in the series The Returned, she also starred in Golden Years by André Téchiné in 2017, and One Nation, One King by Pierre Schoeller in 2018.

Filmography

2020 L’Arche des canopées (short)
2024 Niki