C'est la Vie is a 1990 drama film directed by Diane Kurys.
Diane Kurys is a French filmmaker and actress. Several of her films as director are autobiographical. Born in Lyon, Rhône, France, her parents divorced when she was a child. She began as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault's company. She gained film stardom, but didn't like the roles she was... given or taking orders from others. With a government grant, she made her first film as director, Diabolo menthe , which explored her life as a child of divorced parents, and focused on her relationship with her sister, to whom she dedicated the movie. Cocktail Molotov was her next film. In Coup de Foudre , the divorce issue is revisited, with Isabelle Huppert playing the heroine's mother. Kurys made her first English-language film, A Man in Love, in 1987. C'est la vie returned to her alter-ego leading character's adolescent years. Huppert also appeared in Après l'amour . À la folie examined the relationship between two adult sisters. She also directed the period film Children of the Century .more