"Working with her is both very enriching and uncomplicated. She is an actress through and through", says Mathieu Demy about his partner in "Le Silence". "I would try anything. I act instinctively - when my curiosity is aroused, I get going", she says about herself.

Born in Brussels in 1974, Natacha Régnier leaves the Brussels College of Acting after only one year: "The head of the theatre section advised me to do something else." Her first artistic breakthrough came in Cannes 1998 with an award for best actress for her role in "La vie rêvée des anges" and the European Film Prize. Together with composer Yann Tiersen, with whom she worked on his album "L'Absente", she has a little daughter.

After a two-year break she acted in eight films in just a few months, embodying the most disparate and contradictory characters. Her ideal: the eventful career of the great Sandrine Bonnaire.

Films (Excerpt):

1996		Encore
1998		La vie rêvée des anges
1999		Les Amants criminels
2000		Tout va bien, on s'en va
2001		La fille de son père
2004		Ne fais pas ça!
2004		Le Pont des Arts
2004		Vert paradis
2004		Le Silence
2004		Trouble

La vie revée des anges
Director: Erick Zonca, F 1998, 113 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Sa, November 12 5:00 pm CinemaxX 3 Guest: Natacha Régnier
Su, November 13 3:15 pm Universum 2



Wintery Lille. Bubbly vagabond Isa makes friends with quiet, pensive Marie. They pub-crawl and do not take life too seriously, but when Marie enters on a self-destructive affair with a cynical ladies' man, Isa begins to grow up. For her role as marie Natacha Régnier was awarded, along with Elodie Bouchez, the prize for best actress at the Film Festival in Cannes in 1998.




Tout va bien - on s'en va
Director: Claude Mouriéras, F 2000, 95 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
We, November 9 3:00 pm CinemaxX 4
Fr, November 11 10:00 pm Universum 2



Three sisters in Lyon. Their father has left the family fifteen years ago, their mother has died. Now Laure runs a tango school, Béatrice is a hard-headed business woman and Claire is a gifted pianist. They all lead vastly different lives and everything is OK - until one day their father appears. This film is a moving and a happy family drama with excellent acting.




Encore
Director: Pascal Bonitzer, P/E 1995, 98 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Th, November 10 5:15 pm Universum 2
Sa, November 12 1:00 pm CinemaxX 1



Abel Vichac, a philosophy professor in his mid-forties, is having a crisis. His relationship with jealous Aliette is on the rocks. But who to take her place? Vichac tries his luck with the ladies and enjoys his role as seducer. However, he cannot concentrate: whenever a woman appeals to him, he always thinks of two others.




La fille de son père (Her father's daughter)
Director: Jacques Deschamps, F 2001, 90 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Th, November 10 2:45 pm CinemaxX 3
Su, November 13 1:30 pm CinemaxX 1



Henri's relationship is on the rocks : his wife wants to leave him. In order to get back at her, he brings eighteen-year- old Anna (Natacha Régnier) home, who is actually the untended child of a friend. But Henri tells his wife that she is his daughter from a long lasting love affair. A satirical drama about relationships in a bourgeois family in the French Province.




Ne fais pas ça
Director: Luc Bondy, F/D 2004, 90 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Fr, November 11 1:00 pm CinemaxX 1
Su, November 13 6:15 pm CinemaxX 1



"Ne fais pas ça" Nicole warns her husband as he chokes her. She leaves him and moves to her parents. "Ne fais pas ça", Nicole shouts a second time when Joel turns up in front of her parents' house at night and threatens to burn her clothes. "Ne fais pas ça" deals with the war of the sexes and two pairs in a crisis. Script writer Philippe Dijan won fame for his script for "Betty Blue".




Le Pont des Arts
Director: Eugène Green, F 2004, 123 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Sa, November 12 7:30 pm CinemaxX 3 Guest: Natacha Régnier
Su, November 13 11:00 am CinemaxX 1



The impossible love story of two young people in Paris: very talented and sensitive singer Sarah and student Pascal are both unhappy. Completely independent of each other, they decide to end it all and leap off the Pont des Arts, the famous bridge near the Louvre. A sadly beautiful but very original film set before an impressive background.




Vert paradis
Director: Emmanuel Bourdieu, F 2004, 100 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Th, November 10 10:15 pm Universum 1
Fr, November 11 3:00 pm CinemaxX 2



Isabelle and Simon grow up in the same village and seem to be made for each other. But Simon inherits his father's farm whereas Isabelle moves to Paris and marries. When their friend from childhood, the sociologist Lucas, researches the problem of "unwed farmers in rural areas", he plans to bring them together again. The original title refers to a poem by Baudelaire.




Les amants criminels (Criminal lovers)
Director: François Ozon, F 1999, 90 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
We, November 9 10:30 pm Universum 1
Sa, November 12 10:30 pm Universum 1



Alice loves Luc, however she is attracted by her classmate Saïd. Frightened about her feelings, she decides to kill Saïd, using the murder as a compensation for the feelings she does not dare to act out. The weird tale proceeds: when Alice and Luc bury the corpse in the wood, they fall into the trap of a giant and stumble from one grotesque situation into another.




Comment j'ai tué mon père (How I killed my father)
Regie: Anne Fontaine, F 2001, 100 Min, OmeU
We, November 9 5:30 pm Universum 1
Sa, November 12 11:00 am CinemaxX 4



Jean-Luc (Charles Berling) is an established gerontologist who runs a private clinic specialising in anti-ageing treatments. Honoured for his work in this field, he throws a garden party at his home. It is during this social event that his father Maurice (Michel Bouquet) suddenly reappears, back after a long exile. A physician, he had left decades earlier without any apparent reason to practice in Africa. He moves into his son's home for several days, phlegmatically observing everything with an enigmatic smile. He peruses Jean-Luc's life and environment with cruel objectivity. The arrival of this interloper father, who everyone thought had disappeared for good, shatters the family microcosm: Jean-Luc doesn't know how to take him, as if the memory - or the resentment - was nothing but lost time; his wife Isa (Natacha Régnier) becomes fond of this highly unconventional man; after first refusing to deal with him, Jean-Luc's younger brother strikes up a modest bond.




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