Sólveig Anspach ( 8 December 1960 &ndash; 7 August 2015 ) was an Icelandic-French film director and screenwriter . Born to a German-Romanian father Gerhard Anspach and an Icelandic mother Högna Sigurðardóttir , she spent most of her life living and working in France . After studying philosophy and clinical psychology in Paris , she enrolled in La Fémis and graduated with a diploma in directing in 1989 . Her film '' Stormy Weather '' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival . Anspach died of breast cancer on 7 August 2015 at the age of 54
2003 Cannes Film Festival
2003 Cannes Film Festival
Sólveig Anspach