Diane KurysCarrie Tarr's analysis of the cinema of Diane Kurys is a full length study of this director, whose delightfully unsentimental reconstructions of the lives of girls and women in post war France have established her as a distinctive presence in contemporary French filmmaking. Carrie Tarr traces Kurys' trajectory from actress to author director producer of her own films in a career that already spans two decades, and situates her work within debates on