Jessica Hausner
Jessica HAUSNER (1972, Austria) studied Psychology and trained as a director at the Vienna Film Academy. In 1999, she founded the Vienna film production company coop99 with Barbara Albert, Antonin Svoboda and Martin Gschlacht. Her feature debut Lovely Rita was presented in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Besides a Venice premiere for Lourdes (2009), her subsequent feature films Hotel (2004) and Amour fou (2014) premiered in Cannes. Hausner’s fifth and most recent film, Little Joe, is her first English-language feature. It was presented in the main competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and garnered the acting award for lead actress Emily Beecham.
Filmography
Geburtstag (1992, short), Anne (1992, short), Herr Mares (1992, short), Ich möchte sein manchmal ein Schmetterling (1993, short), Flora (1995, short), Inter-view (1999, short), Lovely Rita (2001), Hotel (2004), Toast (2006, short), Lourdes (2009), Amour fou (2014), Little Joe (2019)
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Jessica Hausner op IFFR
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Inter-View
Jessica Hausner | 48' | Austria | -
Boy with tape recorder annoys girl. This film is good and scary. -
You Bet Your Life
Antonin Svoboda | 98' | Austria | None
A feverish film about gambling addiction. A man sells his soul to the whims of the dice. And he takes his surroundings down with him.… -
Little Joe
Jessica Hausner | 105' | Austria | None
Has science gone too far in this clinical bio-thriller about mysterious plants that can create permanent happiness? -
Hotel
Jessica Hausner | 78' | Austria | -
Fairy-tale suspense the Austrian way by the maker of Lovely Rita. Hotel Waldhaus is such an extremely respectable resort in the Alps, where no one… -
Lovely Rita
Jessica Hausner | 80' | Austria | -
Powerful début film by a young film-maker about a girl of fifteen who breaks down in the face of her surroundings and then hits back…
