Questerbert, Marie-Christine

(1955, Paris, France - )

   After studying philosophy and graduating with a doc­torate with a cinema option (her thesis was titled "Sens et Technique: Les Mouvements de Caméra dans le 'Vampyr' de Carl Dreyer"), she attended Jean Rouch's cinema courses at the Musée de l'Homme. In 1970, Luc Moullet offered her the female lead in Une Aventure de Billy le Kid / USA: A Girl Is a Gun, in which she co-starred under the pseudonym of Rachel Kes-terber, and five years later she played the main charac­ter in another movie directed by the same filmmaker (1976 Anatomie d'un Rapport). Deeply interested in underground films, she got into writing and published articles on photography and experimental cinema for the Centre Pompidou review (Sauf Mardi). She also collaborated on Les Cahiers du Cinéma (1979-1982) and wrote on contemporary painting in a Japanese review (1985-1986). Her book Les Scénaristes ital­iens—50 Ans d'Ecriture pour l'Ecran (Editions Hatier, 1988) is the result of her meetings with the greatest Italian screenwriters. In addition to the movies men­tioned here, she appeared as an actress in about ten movies (1972 Le Dernier Tango à paris / L'ultimo tango a Parigi / UK and USA: Last Tango in Paris, as Rachel Kesterber, Bernardo Bertolucci, France / Italy; 1973 What a Flash!, as Rachel Kesterber, Jean-Michel Barjol; 1981 Ma Première Brasse, short, Luc Moullet; 1992 Border Line, Danièle Dubroux; 1994 Grande Petite, Sophie Fillières; 1996 Le Journal du Séducteur, Danièle Dubroux; Encore, Pascal Bonitzer; 2006 Le Prestige de la Mort Luc Moullet). Her brother, Hugues Quester (b. 1948), is a stage and film actor.

 Filmography

1970 ◘ Buy Me, Sell Me (documentary; short)

        ◘ Denatura (short)

        ◘ Seventies (documentary; short)

        ◘ L'Interminable Chevauchée (short; also screenwriter; shot in 1972)

1982 ◘ Die Erbtôchter / Les Filles héréditaires (segment "Dérapage"; West Germany / France)

1986 ◘ Cremonini (documentary; short)

2000 ◘ La Chambre obscure (also co-screenwriter; France / Luxembourg / Italy)

2004 ◘ Le Jeu de la Simulation (short)

 Television Filmography

2002 ◘ Femme séduisante et anticonformiste (documentary; short; shot in 1999-2001)