Initially, almost nobody wanted to "Bang gang". Judged too ass, too trash, not realistic, Eva Husson's first feature film struggled with the rigidity of French film institutions, before finding refuge at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was presented ahead the world's first and put North American criticism in a trance. A remarkable revenge for her director, expansive brunette and heads of 31 years, atypical course.

Recovered from the prestigious Fémis as she tried to escape a destiny traced as a teacher, this Parisienne pure juice exiled during the last ten years in Los Angeles where, while waiting for her time, she multiplied the small jobs (ads, clips, short films). There, she discovered a style, hooked on the pop formality of Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze, but also feminist convictions dictated by her readings of Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf.

"I became passionate about the issue of women's representation in the arts," she says. In France, there are only 20% movies in which the main characters are feminine, and I think it is a scandal. I would like to devote my career to fighting against this, filming great heroines, reversing these relationships of strength. Eva Husson has the character, tenacity and enthusiasm. A clue ? Her next destination: Iraq, where she wants to shoot a film about Yezidi women who resist the Islamic state.

"Bang gang (a story of modern love)"

Freely inspired by a news item in the United States in the 1990s, "Bang gang" tells the deviant summer of a band of high school students who meet at night and day for orgies. Between the punk fury of Larry Clark and the photogenic grace of Sofia Coppola, Eva Husson films adolescence as an animal fever, a utopian parenthesis where desires - even the craziest - become realities. Sensual and stylish, chanted by a maddening Electro, her "teen movie" will be the great vibration of winter.

From Eva Husson, with Finnegan Oldfield, Marilyn Lima. Released on January 13th.