Ina Mihalache
Ina Mihalache (French pronunciation: [i.na mi.a.laʃ]; born May 14, 1985) is a Canadian-born, France-based actress, video artist, visual artist, comedian,[2] editor and YouTube personality. She has resided in France since 2004.
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Nationality | Canadian |
Education | Classe Libre of Cours Florent |
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Website | solangeteparle |
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Subscribers | +413,000[1] |
Mihalache is mostly known for her YouTube channel Solange Te Parle (Solange Talks to You / Solange Speaks) where, posing as her eccentric online persona Solange, she addresses viewers on various topics. She created her channel in November 2011, and was met with modest success, reaching 200,000 subscribers by April 2016. In February 2022, the channel had 413,000 subscribers. Mihalache aims to portray emotion through the use of films which cover a broad range of interests including culture, art, sexuality and feelings.
Biography
Mihalache was born in Montreal, Quebec, of a Romanian-born father, Dumitru Mihalache, and a French Canadian mother, Doris Duguay.[3] At the age of ten, she decided to give up her native Quebec accent to adopt a "French of France" accent as she heard it on the radio or on French-language television channels such as TV5Monde.[3] She explained this as an "aesthetic choice", which fueled controversy in her native Quebec.[4]
Mihalache arrived in Paris in 2004, and entered the Cours Florent. Subsequently, she was admitted to the Classe Libre under the guidance of Jean-Pierre Garnier and Olivier L. Brunet,[3] but failed four times the entrance examination of the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.
Her main artistic and cinematic influences are Anna Karina, Emmanuelle Riva,[5] Lars von Trier, Sophie Calle, and Tehching Hsieh.[6]
After being introduced to the Talents Cannes de l'Adami by Mathieu Amalric in the short film Deux cages sans oiseaux,[7][8] she devoted herself to the production of atypical works, such as the trilogy Réussites/Patiences,[9] addressing the questions of inadequacy, the isolation, the idleness, and the nudity of the body in the public space. She also works for France Télévisions as an editor and voice-over.
In November 2011, Mihalache created the blog Solange te parle,[10] a compilation of clips with themes, like Norman Thavaud. The character of Solange delivers comical and often absurd advice to solve the problems of the daily life of an asocial young woman. Her reasonings of pataphysical character evoke La Minute nécessaire de monsieur Cyclopède of Pierre Desproges and Jean-Louis Fournier, or some conceptual experiences of the American artist John Baldessari.[11] Mihalache later stated about her creation: "Solange is inadequate. She does not know how to do things, but she tries".[12]
In April 2012, Mihalache played the character of Sasha Maréchal in the France 3 documentary: EtrangesAffaires.com,[13] alongside journalist Patrick Pesnot.
In July 2012, Mihalache collaborated with Radio France with a series of 54 daily capsules broadcast on France Inter on Thomas Baumgartner's Antibuzz: Solange lit tous tes tweets whose themes are taken from a few tweets.[3][14][15] She returned in February 2013 with the series Solange dans le bus,[16] released every Tuesday in the programme of Pascale Clark Comme on nous parle.[17] Another series, Solange pénètre ta vie intime, which consisted of anonymous accounts on female sexuality, was published on the website of radio station Mouv' on February 14, 2013, and was broadcast daily until June 2013.[18] The series resumed in January 2014.[19]
On stage she played the title role in Virginia Wolf directed by Nathalie Bensard and adapted from the eponymous album of Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault.[20]
On January 6, 2016, Mihalache published her first book at Payange editions, Solange te parle, inspired by her experience on the Internet.
On January 30, 2016, the screening of her feature film Solange et les vivants (screened between 2013 and 2014 and produced by participative financing[21]) began at the Luminor Hôtel de Ville.[22] The national projection began on March 9, 2016.[23]
In October 2016 she joined Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts in the promotion of Chantal Akerman.[24]
In February 2017, she published a second book, Très intime,[25] verbatim of the accounts that were broadcast on radio station Mouv' in 2013, with a foreword by Mihalache.
Controversies
In April 2017, controversy arose after the publication of Mihalache's book Très intime: some women, who presented themselves as the authors of some of the accounts in the book (including true stories about rape and domestic abuse) expressed their discontent on social media, citing privacy and intellectual property issues.[26][27] They claimed Mihalache did not ask them for permission before including the stories in a commercially published book.[28] Mihalache responded on the controversy with an apology on her Twitter account, citing "organization issues".[26] One of the plaintiffs eventually stated on her blog that she was giving up on costly legal proceedings.[29]
In 2018, Mihalache was involved in a conflict of interest controversy surrounding a committee within the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) dedicated to publicly subsidize content produced by online videographers in France.[30] In one instance, Mihalache and Cyprien Iov, both YouTubers and members of the committee, were accused on social media of using their position to grant subsidies to each other.[31][32] Iov and the CNC denied any situation of conflict of interest.[33]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Creator | Director | Notes |
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2007 | Deux cages sans oiseaux | Sister Muriel | Mathieu Amalric | ||
Tu peux ne pas du tout penser à moi | Olivier L. Brunet (co-director) | ||||
2008 | Grossesses et Macarons | Clémentine | Anne Flandrin | ||
2011 | EtrangesAffaires.com : L'affaire des vedettes de Cherbourg | Sasha Maréchal | Olivier L. Brunet | ||
2012 | EtrangesAffaires.com : L'affaire des missiles Exocet | ||||
L'entropie du milieu humain | Geek presenter | Vivien Loiseau | |||
2016 | Solange et les vivants | Solange | Ina Mihalache | Lead role | |
Ma révolution | Teacher | Ramzi Ben Sliman |
Works
Video works
Years | Title | Notes |
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2010 | Réussites/Patiences | Performance/triptych video of 8 hours featuring two actresses in real time |
2011– | Solange Te Parle | Internet video series |
Publications
Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN |
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2016 | Solange te parle | Payot | ISBN 9782228914512 |
2017 | Très intime | ISBN 9782228917063 |
Radio
Years | Title | Notes |
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2012 | Solange lit tous tes tweets | Series of 54 sound capsules for France Inter and the programme "Antibuzz" by Thomas Baumgartner |
2013 | Solange dans le bus | Series of sound capsules for France Inter and the programme "Comme nous nous parle" by Pascale Clark |
2013–14 | Solange pénètre ta vie intime | Series of sound capsules for the Mouv' |
Editing and voice overs
Year | Title | Network | Notes |
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2008 | Signes de l'espérance | France 2 | Editing |
2009 | Les Silences de Maurice Zundel | Editing and voice over | |
2010 | Ultreïa! | ||
2011 | La Beauté du geste | France 3 | Editing |
Theatre
Year | Title | Notes |
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2014 | Virginia Wolf | Nathalie Bensard's young audience show, based on the album of Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault, with Marie Craipeau; title role |
Awards
Cours Florent
Year | Named work | Reward | Result |
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2007 | Ina Mihalache in Babylone by Matthieu Dessertine | "Jacques" for the best actor | Won |
References
- "About SolangeTeParle". YouTube.
- "Solange te parle de cul". Libération.fr (in French). January 31, 2017. Archived from the original on September 28, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
- Hanne, Isabelle (July 25, 2012). "Ina Mihalache. Solange, mi–démon". Libération (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- Dumas, Hugo (May 10, 2012). "Solange te parle sans accent". La Presse (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- "62 RÉVÉLATIONS sur SOLANGE". YouTube (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- "DÉCLICS CULTURELS QUI SAUVENT LA VIE". YouTube (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- "Deux cages sans oiseaux" (in French). July 11, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- Deux cages sans oiseaux (motion picture) (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017 – via Dailymotion.
- "9 JUIN 2010: RÉUSSITES, INSTALLATION VIDÉO – INA MIHALACHE". Lesnouveauxartistes.com (in French). June 9, 2010. Archived from the original on June 23, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- "Solange te parle" (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- Siankowski, Pierre (April 10, 2012). "Solange te parle : un site de vidéos désopilantes". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- Comte, Alexandre (November 3, 2013). "Les Inrocks – Portrait de nuit: Ina Mihalache alias Solange te parle". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- "klibre – en marge – L'Affaire des vedettes de Cherbourg". k-libre.fr (in French). April 16, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- "Solange, France Inter" (in French). June 20, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- Lemaire, Basile (September 3, 2012). "L'excellent making-of de "Solange lit tous tes tweets"". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- "Solange dans le bus / France Inter". France Inter (in French). January 31, 2013. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- Bastide, Lauren (February 5, 2013). "Les scènes de bus de Solange". Elle (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- "Solange pénètre ta vie intime". Lemouv.fr (in French). February 14, 2013. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- "Solange te parle". Lemouv.fr (in French). Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- "Virginia Wolf". Télérama Sortir (in French). Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- "SOLANGE ET LES VIVANTS". Ulule (in French). Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- "A Y EST, C'EST OFFICIEL : Solange et..." Facebook (in French). Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- "Promotions" (in French). April 24, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- "Promotions" (in French). April 24, 2013. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
- "Solange te parle de cul" (in French). January 31, 2017. Archived from the original on September 28, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
- Gallot, Clémentine (March 28, 2017). ""Solange te parle" accusée d'avoir diffusé des témoignages de femmes sans leur consentement". Libération (in French). Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- Rezzoug, Leslie (March 28, 2017). "Solange Te Parle a-t-elle publié des témoignages sans autorisation?". L'Express (in French). Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- Randanne, Fabien (March 29, 2017). ""Solange te parle" accusée d'avoir publié des témoignages de femmes sans leur accord". 20 Minutes Newspaper. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- Greusard, Renée (March 28, 2017). "Troublante et intéressante : ce que dit la polémique "Solange te parle"". Le Nouvel Obs (in French). Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- Piquard, Alexandre (October 3, 2017). "Aides du CNC : le youtubeur Cyprien se défend de tout conflit d'intérêts". Le Monde. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- Korda, Robin (October 24, 2018). "Subventions du CNC : le youtubeur Cyprien accusé de "conflit d'intérêts"". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- "Le youtubeur Cyprien accusé de conflit d'intérêts". L'Obs (in French). October 25, 2018. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- Signoret, Perrine (October 24, 2018). "Y a-t-il eu conflit d'intérêts dans l'attribution des aides du CNC aux youtubeurs ?". Numerama (in French). Retrieved December 7, 2018.
External links
- Solange's channel on YouTube (in French)
- Solange on Facebook (in French)
- Ina Mihalache at IMDb