Françoise Romand is a director of documentary and fiction films dealing mainly with identity. Her first two documentaries were shown at the Museum of Modern Art’s New Directors/New Films series in 1986 and 1987, and her first feature film, Past Imperfect, a thriller premiered at the Venice Film Festival in1994. Her most recent feature is a comedy entitled Vice vertu et vice versa (1997).

Miss Romand makes documentaries that look like those of nobody else. Though she sticks to facts, they’re often facts that few writers of supposedly serious fiction would dare to touch except under pseudonym...It’s enough, as in fiction, that the filmmaker is able to persuade us to share her curiousity, surprise or point of view...