Ovidie

Acting

Ovidie

Born August 25, 1980 · Lille, Nord, France (age 46)

Ovidie, born Éloïse Becht, is a filmmaker and producer, and a former pornographic actress.

Known For

Pornocracy: The New Sex MultinationalsPornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals · 2017
Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals
★ 6.72017
MovieDocumentary
Never before have we watched as much porn as today yet the traditional porn industry is dying. The arrival of web sites showing amateur clips has transformed the way porn is made and consumed. Behind this transformation lies one opaque multinational.
The PornographerThe Pornographer · 2001
The Pornographer
★ 5.12001
MovieDrama
A former porn director, who once elevated the genre with 1960s counter-culture ideals, returns to filmmaking after 20 years, clashing with his producer's hard-core vision. Estranged from his son over the family business, they begin reconnecting as the son embraces political activism, while the director seeks personal renewal.
The StrikeThe Strike · 2025
The Strike
2025
MovieDocumentary
Through the editing of archive footage and a reading of Ovidie's La Chair est triste hélas, Gabrielle Stemmer's collage film shatters the heterosexual model, a story that is both intimate and political.
Saint AmourSaint Amour · 2016
Saint Amour
★ 5.72016
MovieComedyDrama
Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.
Mortal TransferMortal Transfer · 2001
Mortal Transfer
★ 5.22001
MovieComedyThriller
Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband beating her. When he wakes up, he finds Olga having been choked to death. He now has to deal with a body, with Olga's rich husband who thinks she stole money from him, and with all his patients' insanity that haunts him.
I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM ManifestoI Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto · 2024
I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto
★ 7.32024
MovieDocumentaryHistory
New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three shots at him, who miraculously survives, but is seriously wounded. What led this woman to try to kill the famous pop artist, as well as to write a manifesto calling for the eradication of men?
Sex Is Comedy: The Revolution of Intimacy CoordinatorsSex Is Comedy: The Revolution of Intimacy Coordinators · 2023
Sex Is Comedy: The Revolution of Intimacy Coordinators
★ 7.02023
MovieDocumentary
A fascinating insight into the role of the intimacy co-ordinator, told through behind-the-scenes access to new queer French TV show Split.
D'autres chats à fouetterD'autres chats à fouetter · 2023
D'autres chats à fouetter
★ 6.02023
MovieComedy
During a high school carnival, Paula, a respected English teacher in the city, finds herself playing the role of a well-known superheroine, Catwoman. She then puts on a costume that allows her to exercise her own superpower: domination.

Filmography

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Spanton vs The French PoliceSpanton vs The French Police · 2022
Spanton vs The French Police
★ 7.42022
MovieDocumentary
On February 1, 2019, after three weeks of trial before the french criminal trial court, two police officers of the French Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), Antoine Q and Nicolas R, were sentenced to seven years in prison for the rape of Émily S in the premises of the police station 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Neither her dress nor her blood alcohol level, or even her supposedly «sexual» attitude mentioned by the defense managed to minimize the seriousness of the facts: she did not consent to sexual intercourse. This conviction comes in a particular context of collective awareness on sexual violence. It is symptomatic of a change of mentalities. A symbolic, but equally universal story in the post #MeToo era.

Script

Tu enfanteras dans la douleurTu enfanteras dans la douleur · 2019
Tu enfanteras dans la douleur
★ 6.02019
MovieDocumentary
Facing the camera, they describe " the horror ". Brutal and unwilling medical acts, performed without anesthesia. The impression of being no more than " a piece of meat ", and the pain, unbearable. " It was no longer a delivery, it was a scene of massacre, " describes a young mother, her voice white. Her testimony, bordering on sustainable, and those of several other women are at the heart of "Tu enfanteras dans la Pain". After investigating the impact of pornography on the sexuality of young girls or the suppression of prostitution in Sweden , the feminist director Ovidie continues to examine the pressures exerted on the bodies of women, this time through the prism of obstetric violence.

Director