Julia Ducournau Talks Next Moves After ‘Titane’, NYC Writing Residency & Working With Juliette Binoche On ‘The New Look’ – The Deadline Q&A

15.11.2022 - 13:51 / deadline.com

French director Julia Ducournau is at the Marrakech International Film Festival this week where she will talk about her career and work to date in an In Conversation event on Tuesday.

The Morocco trip comes close to a year after a momentous 2021 for the filmmaker in which she won the Cannes Palme d’Or for her genre and gender-bending second film Titane, becoming only the second woman to do so after Jane Campion in the history of the festival.

The feature went on to enjoy a buzzy career in the international film festival circuit, receiving an enthusiastic reception at the New York Film and London film festivals among others, and made a strong showing at the speciality box office in the U.S. for Neon. It was also selected as France’s entry to the best international film but did not make it onto the shortlists. 

Having spent this summer filming two episodes of the Apple TV+ series The New Look, starring Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel, she is now gearing up to participate in France’s Villa Albertine artist residency program in New York.

Deadline caught up with the director in the gardens of Marrakech’s Mamounia Hotel ahead of her In Conversation talk. 

DEADLINE: How have you been decompressing after your eventful 2021?

JULIA DUCOURNAU: I was shooting a TV show the whole summer that’s not mine, The New Look for Apple. I directed two episodes. It meant I was on set which is great. I do this because I am writing right now, but if you just write and you never set foot on a set for three, or four years, that’s horrendous. So it’s good to hop on a project like that. Now I am back to writing.

DEADLINE: How is it directing other people’s material? 

DUCOURNAU: I’ve done it on other things,