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Émilie Dequenne

Émilie Dequenne

2 films · 83 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19992022

Born 29 August 1981 · Belœil, Belgique · died 16 March 2025

Émilie Dequenne was a Belgian actress. She first gained attention for playing the title character in the film Rosetta (1999), which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She then went on to star in many films such as Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), The Light (2004), The Girl on the Train (2009), Our Children (2012), Not My Type (2014) and This Is Our Land (2017).

Dequenne won the Best Actress award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for her debut film performance in the Palme d'Or-winning film Rosetta.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 83 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19992022

  • Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress1999
  • César Award for Best Supporting Actress2021

How their films are shot

Measured across 83 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Émilie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 76% of their frames are day, 60% natural — the look of the work Émilie takes.

Time of day

Day76%
Night17%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Natural60%
High key20%
Low key17%

Shot size

Medium61%
Closeup36%

Camera angle

Eye level89%
High angle9%

Mood

Neutral86%
Lonely10%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 83 frames from Émilie Dequenne's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.