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Anne Le Ny
Anne Le Ny (born 16 December 1962) is a French actress, screenwriter and film director. Filmography Actress Screenwriter or director Theatre References French film directors French women film directors Living people French film actresses French television actresses 1962 births 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses French people of Breton descent French women screenwriters French screenwriters French stage actresses {{France-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony, Hauts-de-Seine
Antony () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris. Antony is a subprefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department and the seat of the arrondissement of Antony. Watered by the Bièvre, a tributary of the Seine, Antony is at the crossroads of important transport routes, especially the main north–south axis, which has existed for 2,000 years. Little urbanized until the early 20th century, the city grew considerably between the two wars, under Senator-Mayor Auguste Mounié, from 4,000 to 20,000 inhabitants. In the early 1960s the population quickly increased from 25,000 to 50,000 to accommodate repatriated people from Algeria. Now incorporated in the Paris Metropolitan Area, it is particularly strong in education, with one of the largest private institutions in France, and in health, with the largest private establishment in Île-de-France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Antoniens'' or ''Antoniennes''. The commune has been a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Companeez
Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela. Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville.Françoise Audé ''Ciné-modèles cinéma d'elles.: Situations de femmes dans le cinéma'' 1981 Page 77 " ichel Deville.. Il ne se lance alors pas seul dans l'aventure : avec lui, une scénariste-dialoguiste brillante, Nina Companeez. Elle est la fille de Jacques Companeez qui fut le scénariste de Jacques Becker. Elle est, en outre, monteuse." She wrote for 29 films and television shows. In April 2015, she died at the age of 77. Selected filmography Writer * '' Tonight or Never'' (1961) * '' Adorable Liar'' (1962) * ''Because, Because of a Woman'' (1963) * ''Girl's Apartment'' (1963) * ''Lucky Jo'' (1964) * ''Martin Soldat'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chameleon (2010 Film)
''The Chameleon'' is a 2010 drama film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, who co-wrote the screenplay with Natalie Carter. The film is based upon the true story of Frédéric Bourdin who impersonated a missing child named Nicholas Barclay in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1990s. Much of the true story was incorporated into the film although the years have been altered and the location was moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Plot A young man (Marc-André Grondin) in France shaves off all his body hair and turns himself in to the police. The man claims to be a 16-year-old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years. His story is that he was kidnapped by a child prostitution ring in France who physically altered his appearance. He is reunited with his family who immediately have their suspicions regarding his story. His mother (Ellen Barkin) and half brother Brendan (Nick Stahl) do not seem to accept him, and many questions are open regarding whether ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Father's Guests
''My Father's Guests'' (french: Les Invités de mon père) is a 2010 French comedy film written, directed by, and starring Anne Le Ny, along with Karin Viard, Fabrice Luchini and Michel Aumont. Plot Lucien Paumelle, retired physician, is a longtime activist (Resistance, abortion rights). By conviction, he decided to host a clandestine and her daughter from Moldova. But the relationship between Tatiana and Lucien Paumelle aren't well regarded by his children, Babette and Arnaud. Cast * Karin Viard as Babette Paumelle * Fabrice Luchini as Arnaud Paumelle * Michel Aumont as Lucien Paumelle * Valérie Benguigui as Karine Paumelle * Veronica Novak as Tatiana * Raphaël Personnaz as Carter * Olivier Rabourdin Olivier Rabourdin (born 3 March 1959) is a French film actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1985. In 2010 he was nominated for a French César Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle) ... as Rémy * Flore Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Those Who Remain
''Those Who Remain'' (french: Ceux qui restent) is a 2007 French drama film written and directed by Anne Le Ny, starring Vincent Lindon and Emmanuelle Devos. Cast * Vincent Lindon as Bertrand Liévain * Emmanuelle Devos Emmanuelle Devos (born 10 May 1964) is a French actress. She is the daughter of actress Marie Henriau. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in ''Sur mes lèvres'', directed by Jacques Audiard. She has also bee ... as Lorraine Grégeois * Yeelem Jappain as Valentine * Anne Le Ny as Nathalie * Grégoire Oestermann as Jean-Paul * Christine Murillo as Suzy * Ophélia Kolb as Jennifer * Apolline Bouissières as Myriam * Agathe Bouissières as Bénédicte * Théo Frilet as Romain * Pierre Gérard as Thierry Reception '' Le Parisien'' gave the film four out of five stars and described it as sensitive and powerful. Accolades References External links * 2007 films 2007 drama films 2000s French-language films Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Le Guay
Philippe Le Guay (born 22 October 1956) is a French screenwriter, film director and occasional actor. He studied film at the IDHEC and began his career as a screenwriter before directing his first feature film ''Les Deux Fragonard'' in 1989. He is known for his work on ''The Women on the 6th Floor'' (2010), which was well received at the French box office, and the César Award-nominated ''Bicycling with Molière ''Bicycling with Molière'' (french: Alceste à bicyclette) is a 2013 French comedy-drama film directed by Philippe Le Guay. In January 2014, the film received three nominations at the 39th César Awards. Cast * Fabrice Luchini as Serge Tanneur ...'' (2013). Filmography As director/screenwriter As actor References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Guay, Philippe Living people 1956 births Film directors from Paris French male screenwriters French screenwriters French male film actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte (; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter. Life and career Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. While attending film school in the late 1960s, Leconte also worked as a cartoonist, in particular for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote''. He directed his first feature film in 1976, and had a number of major successes with comedy films that were barely distributed outside France. He first came to international attention in 1989 with '' Monsieur Hire'', which was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and which was a radical departure from his previous work. Although he had already directed more than half a dozen features, many foreign critics, unfamiliar with his previous work, essentially treated him as a newcomer. Since then, he has alternated between films such as ''Ridicule'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Best Friend (2006 Film)
''My Best Friend '' ''(Mon meilleur ami)'' is a French film starring Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, and Julie Gayet. Plot François (Auteuil) is a middle-aged, Parisian art dealer who thinks he has everything. After telling a story at dinner about a funeral he attended where only a handful of people turned up, his colleagues suggest that no-one would go to his funeral. He may be materially rich, but he has no friends. Everyone at the dinner table starts to antagonise him about having no friends but François says that he does have friends (in reality, he only has clients). His business partner Catherine (Gayet) challenges him to a bet: François must introduce his best friend within ten days, or lose a valuable object, his antique Greek vase (worth €200,000). The challenge is accepted. François has ten days to find a friend. As François travels through Paris in a taxi, revisiting old acquaintances who all reject him, he meets a trivia-loving taxi driver, Bruno (Boon). As the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mon Petit Doigt M'a Dit
Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to: Places * Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar * Mon, India, a town in Nagaland * Mon district, Nagaland * Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India * Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Canton of Grisons * Anglesey, cy, Môn, links=no, an island and county of Wales * Møn, an island of Denmark * Monongahela River, US or "The Mon" Peoples and languages * Mon people, an ethnic group from Burma * Mon language, spoken in Burma and Thailand * Mon–Khmer languages, a large language family of Mainland Southeast Asia * Mongolian language (ISO 639 code), official language of Mongolia * Alisa Mon, Russian singer Other uses * Mon (emblem), Japanese family heraldic symbols * Mon (architecture), gates at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and castles in Japan * Mon (boat), a traditional war canoe of the North Solomons * Mon (currency), a currency used in Japan until 1870 * Môn FM, a radio station serving Anglesey, Wales * ''The Gate'' (novel) () ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Miller
Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the ''Service Cinéma de l'Armée''. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and ''La meilleure façon de marcher'' (''The Best Way to Walk'', 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's ''Les Mistons'' (1957) and ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). Miller received César nominations for best director and writing for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Lili
''Little Lili'' (french: La petite Lili) is a 2003 French drama film by French director Claude Miller. The film stars Ludivine Sagnier, Bernard Giraudeau, Nicole Garcia, Julie Depardieu and Jean-Pierre Marielle. Plot The plot is based on the 1896 stage play ''The Seagull'' by Anton Chekhov. A group of cinematics spend a holiday in the French countryside. The film provides insight into their relationships, including that between a young man, Julien, and a local girl, Lili. Lili uses the opportunity to work her way into the cinematic world. She transfers her attentions from Julien to his mother's lover, an established filmmaker, who takes Lili on a trip to Paris. A few years later Julien has become a filmmaker himself. His first film is inspired by the holiday with Lili. Lili, who is by now an established actress, learns about it and works herself into its cast, becoming the star of the production. However she does not resume her personal relationship with Julien, who remains faith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau (; born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films ''La Boum'' (1980) and ''La Boum 2'' (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress (known as the French Academy Awards, Oscar). She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including ''L'Étudiante (film), L'Étudiante'' (1988), ''Pacific Palisades (film), Pacific Palisades'' (1990), ''Fanfan'' (1993) and ''Revenge of the Musketeers (1994 film), Revenge of the Musketeers'' (1994). She became an international film star with her performances in ''Braveheart'' (1995), ''Firelight'' (1997), Anna Karenina (1997 film), ''Anna Karenina'' (1997) and as Elektra King in the 19th List of James Bond films, James Bond film ''The World Is Not Enough'' (1999). Some of her later films tackle critical social issues such as ''Arrêtez-moi'' (2013), Jailbirds (2015 film), ''Jailbirds'' (2015) and ''Everything We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
