Biography

Renée Beaulieu holds a doctorate in film studies, a diploma in screenwriting from the National Institute of Image and Sound in Montreal, and is a pharmacist. She wrote, produced, directed, and edited her first three feature films, developing a unique style, tackling subjects rarely explored in cinema, and adopting a direct and unflinching perspective. In 2007, she wrote the screenplay for THE RING. Her other works include THE GARAGE Mechanic (2015), Sluts or the Natural Sugar of the Skin (2018), and Ines (2021).

Filmography

LIVING IN THE HOUSE, feature film, in post-production (2024)

INES, feature film, 2021

1805 A BUTTERFLY STREET, short film, 2019

THE SLUTS OR THE NATURAL SUGAR OF THE SKIN, feature film, 2018

THE GARAGE OWNER, feature film, 2015

THE RING, (screenplay) feature film, 2007

GUILTY, short film, 2010

BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL, short film, 2000

Director's Note

Living in the House is the fifth feature film I've written, and the fourth I've directed and produced. Since the beginning of my career, I've strived to be a free artist, and my independent films reflect my personal vision of subjects and cinematic aesthetics. I hope to build a body of work based on this freedom of artistic expression. What I want is to escape the formulaic screenwriting and cinematic approach that reduces film to a mere product designed to satisfy a target audience from a commercial perspective. My film, Habiter la maison (Living in the House), is part of my artistic journey that began in the early 2000s. I initially directed short films, then my first feature film in 2008 (Le Ring), followed by others in 2015 (Le garagiste - The Mechanic), 2018 (Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau - Sluts or the Natural Sugar of the Skin), and 2022 (Inès). This project explores the theme of family, with its complex and evolving family ties. It's a tender, complex, and luminous love story, with its shadowy aspects between siblings, parents, and grandparents. The film also looks at the house: the one we build, the one we live in, the one we leave for studies, because of a separation, old age, death, the one where we are born... The house becomes a symbol, a shelter, a prison, a gift...