MIMI

Mimi is not a star; she is someone. I wanted to make a film about Mimi’s life. About the life of someone. To become as attached as possible to this originality in order to find the romance of a real life. That I would discover by filming her. There, in her town in Nice, or in the mountains, in the familiar or unknown places where I filmed her, I waited for her story that I didn’t yet know to come back to her, and for her to tell me the scenes that would make up her personal novel.

CLAIRE SIMON was born in Great Britain, but it was in France where she developed a career full of international awards. Her adventurous spirit led her to study ethnology and to first come into contact with film in the Argel film library, where she did a course on editing and joined the editing team of Dora Et La Lanterne Magique (Pascal Kan.,1977). But Simon wanted to further her knowledge and learning, and she enrolled in the Ateliers Varan, founded by Jean Rouch as spaces to train in hands-on documentary making. There she discovered Direct Cinema and directed her first short film, Tandis Que J’agonise (1982)