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Christine Jeffs is a Director, Writer and Assistant Editor Néo-Zélandaise born on 29 january 1963 at Lower Hutt (Nouvelle zelande)
Christine Jeffs (born 1963) is a New Zealand-born film director known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the American independent film Sunshine Cleaning (2009), with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt.
Jeffs is the director and screenwriter of the New Zealand film Rain (2001).
Jeffs lives in Auckland with her partner John Toon, cinematographer of Sunshine Cleaning and her other films.
En 1993, elle réalise le court-métrage Stroke, puis un certain nombre de spots publicitaires. Mais, ce n'est qu'en 2001 que la réalisatrice tourne son premier long métrage, Rain, un drame sur l'éveil à la sexualité et au monde des adultes d'une adolescente de treize ans, qui lui vaut d'obtenir plusieurs récompenses et nominations dans des festivals. Deux ans plus tard, elle signe le drame biographique Sylvia, avec Gwyneth Paltrow et Daniel Craig, film sur la relation amoureuse entre la poète Sylvia Plath et Ted Hughes.
En 2008, la réalisatrice néo-zélandaise signe son troisième long-métrage, Sunshine Cleaning, avec Amy Adams, Emily Blunt et Alan Arkin, qui raconte l'histoire d'une mère célibataire qui crée avec sa sœur une entreprise spécialisée dans le nettoyage de scènes de crimes, pour subvenir à l'éducation de son fils.
Elle vit à Auckland avec son compagnon John Toon, directeur de la photographie sur ses films.
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Jeffs is the director and screenwriter of the New Zealand film Rain (2001).
Jeffs lives in Auckland with her partner John Toon, cinematographer of Sunshine Cleaning and her other films.
Biography
Diplômée de la Massey University, où elle étudie la sociologie et la géographie, Christine Jeffs obtient en 1990 son diplôme de monteuse de la Australian Film, Television and Radio School, et commence sa carrière au cinéma en tant qu'assistant monteuse.En 1993, elle réalise le court-métrage Stroke, puis un certain nombre de spots publicitaires. Mais, ce n'est qu'en 2001 que la réalisatrice tourne son premier long métrage, Rain, un drame sur l'éveil à la sexualité et au monde des adultes d'une adolescente de treize ans, qui lui vaut d'obtenir plusieurs récompenses et nominations dans des festivals. Deux ans plus tard, elle signe le drame biographique Sylvia, avec Gwyneth Paltrow et Daniel Craig, film sur la relation amoureuse entre la poète Sylvia Plath et Ted Hughes.
En 2008, la réalisatrice néo-zélandaise signe son troisième long-métrage, Sunshine Cleaning, avec Amy Adams, Emily Blunt et Alan Arkin, qui raconte l'histoire d'une mère célibataire qui crée avec sa sœur une entreprise spécialisée dans le nettoyage de scènes de crimes, pour subvenir à l'éducation de son fils.
Elle vit à Auckland avec son compagnon John Toon, directeur de la photographie sur ses films.
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
, 1h31Directed by Christine Jeffs
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Jason Spevack, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin
Rating67%
Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) is a thirty-something single mother, working full-time as a maid. Her underachieving sister Norah (Emily Blunt) lives with their father Joe (Alan Arkin), and is fired from her job as a waitress. After the school expels Rose's son Oscar for his erratic behavior, she is told she must put him on medication or send him to a private school. Unable to make enough money with her current job, Rose asks Mac (Steve Zahn), her ex-boyfriend during their high school years and her married lover, for advice. Mac recommends a crime scene cleanup job, and with his connections as a police officer, he gets Rose and Norah into the business.
Sylvia (2003)
, 1h50Directed by Christine Jeffs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Poésie
Actors Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Michael Gambon, Alison Bruce, Blythe Danner
Rating62%
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932, Plath developed a precocious talent as a writer, publishing her first poem when she was only eight years old. That same year, tragedy introduced itself into her life as Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship, and while she was an outstanding student, she also began suffering from bouts of extreme depression. Following her junior year, she attempted suicide for the first time. Plath survived, and, in 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at the University of Cambridge. While in Great Britain, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author, who would later become the British Poet Laureate. The two fell in love and married in 1956. Marriage, family, and a growing reputation as an important poet nonetheless failed to bring Plath happiness. She became increasingly fascinated with death, a highly visible theme in her later poetry and her sole novel, The Bell Jar (1963). After Hughes left her for another woman, Plath's depression went into a tailspin from which she never recovered. She killed herself at age 30.
Rain (2001)
Directed by Christine Jeffs
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Marton Csokas, Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Alison Routledge
Rating68%
Janey is on vacation with her brother Jim, mother Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit in the backyard all day drinking whiskey, leaving their young children to amuse and fend for themselves. Cady, a local boatie who is having an affair with Kate, catches Janey's pubescent eye. In response to his wife's problems with alcohol and infidelity, Ed turns to alcohol, neglecting his children almost as much as his wife. When Janey sees Cady photographing Kate on his boat, she persuades him to take pictures of her as well. Then, like her mother, she wants something else from him.
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Rain (2001)
Directed by Christine Jeffs
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Marton Csokas, Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Alison Routledge
Roles Writer
Rating68%
Janey is on vacation with her brother Jim, mother Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit in the backyard all day drinking whiskey, leaving their young children to amuse and fend for themselves. Cady, a local boatie who is having an affair with Kate, catches Janey's pubescent eye. In response to his wife's problems with alcohol and infidelity, Ed turns to alcohol, neglecting his children almost as much as his wife. When Janey sees Cady photographing Kate on his boat, she persuades him to take pictures of her as well. Then, like her mother, she wants something else from him.
Editor
Ruby and Rata (1990)
, 1h49Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Yvonne Lawley, Andrew Robertt
Roles Assistant Editor
Rating60%
Ruby (Yvonne Lawley) is an 83-year-old woman who has just failed her driving test and is worried about her ability to cope with day-to-day life at her age. She asks her nephew Buckle (Simon Barnett), posing as a real estate agent, to arrange to lease part of the house she owns to a potential housemate to assist her with various chores. The new tenant is Rata (Vanessa Rare)—a well-dressed, smooth-talking young woman of Māori descent who works for a large finance company. Once she has moved in, it becomes apparant that Rata is actually a cleaner at the firm, has a young son named Willie (Lee Metekingi), and is in trouble with social services over welfare payments. Rata is also hoping to make it big as a singer in a punk band, The Apocalypse, which is reliant on her accessing the supposed "fortune" of her new housemate/landlady to pay for sound equipment. An unusual relationship develops between Ruby, Rata and Willie, with each of them manipulating the others in some way, but forming a bond and dependence on each other.