 In her adolescence, she was radicalized in the spirit of May of '68, but became somewhat disillusioned in the aftermath, calling it a "revolution bourgeois" in an interview with Jean-Luc Wachthausen  She first met her partner and fellow filmmaker Alexandre Arcady, when she was fifteen years old.They have been a couple since the 1960s, have two production companies together as well as a son born in 1991, Yasha, an author who writes under the name of Sacha Sperling .She began as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault's company.