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In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issue
However volatile her subject matter, her art never tells you what to feel, writes the Guardian’s art critic – although she could indulge in a kind of knockabout buffoonery
Her art delved into the human comedy from an uncharted female point of view, her stature confirmed by a 2021 Tate Britain retrospective
The French director talks about adapting Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel for the screen, why intimacy is always intertwined with politics, and the perils of illegal abortion