Françoise Collin

She is notably associated with Philippe de Broca's King of Hearts, or Le Roi de coeur, the 1966 French anti-war comedy. The film follows a British soldier sent into a French town during World War I, where abandoned asylum residents take over the town.

King of Hearts shifts between military danger and the asylum's exuberant, absurd view of ordinary life. The editing has to keep those tonal changes clear while preserving the anti-war comedy's emotional thread.

Philippe de Broca directed King of Hearts, while Françoise Collin is credited for the editing, the work that shapes shot order, pace, and transitions. Separating those roles matters because the director and editor solve different parts of the same film.

It is a 1966 European anti-war comedy rather than a conventional battlefield drama. Its central setup is a bomb-disposal mission in a town emptied by retreating German troops, followed by a surreal encounter with the local asylum's residents.