Ursula Meier: “Making the right film at the right time”

It’s not that she sits and waits for inspiration, but rather that her demanding creative process follows tortuous paths. If Ursula Meier has become rare since the successes of Home (2008) and The child above (2012), she has not been idle, working on postponed projects and signing more modest formats: a sketch of the collective film The Bridges of Sarajevoa short portrait of Kacey Mottet Klein or the TV movie Diary of my head for the Ondes de choc collection (imagined with his accomplices from Bande à part Films, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Lionel Baier and Frédéric Mermoud). Always sailing between Brussels, where she lives, Paris and Lausanne, the native of Besançon, who grew up near Geneva before leaving to study cinema in Belgium, remains inspired by Switzerland. As proof, this new film made in Chablais.