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April In Love
''April in Love'' (french: Avril) is a 2006 French comedy film directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu. Cast * Sophie Quinton - Avril * Miou-Miou - Sister Bernadette * Nicolas Duvauchelle - Pierre * Clément Sibony - David * Richaud Valls - Jim * Geneviève Casile - Mother Marie-Joseph * Monique Mélinand Monique Mélinand (9 March 1916 – 16 May 2012) was a French film and television actress.Capua p.177 Selected filmography * ''Rouletabille joue et gagne'' (1947) * ''Rouletabille contre la dame de pique'' (1948) * ''Between Eleven and Midnight ... - Sister Céleste References External links * 2006 comedy films 2006 films French comedy films 2000s French films 2000s French-language films {{2000s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
Gérald is a French male given name, a variant of the old Géraud and more common Gérard, both equivalent to Gerald in English. People with the name include: * Gérald Mossé * Gérald de Palmas * Gérald Leblanc Less frequently the French name also occurs as the English name, without the accent: * Gerald Messadié, Egypt-born French writer It is also occasionally a French surname, as in: * Jim Gérald Jim Gérald (4 July 1889 – 2 July 1958) was a French actor. Gérald was born Gérald Ernest Cuénod in Paris. He died in Paris in 1958. Selected filmography * ''La légende de soeur Béatrix'' (1923) - Un soudard * ''The Imaginary Voyage' ... (1889–1958), French actor {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerald French-language surnames French masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Quinton
Sophie Quinton (born 31 August 1976) is a French actress. She has played in a number of short films directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu, and starred in the 2003 film '' Who Killed Bambi?''. Life and career Born into a farming family in Villedieu-les-Poêles, Lower Normandy, Sophie Quinton studied drama at the Millet high school in Cherbourg. The films '' Peau d' Ane'' and '' La nuit americaine'' inspired her love of cinema. After leaving school, Quinton joined a small street-theatre group. She first came to the attention of critics in two short films by Gerald Hustache-Mathieu: '' Peau de Vache'' (for which she won the award for Best Performance at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival) and '' La Chatte Andalouse''. Quinton was introduced to a wider audience when she played the heroine in '' Qui a tué Bambi ?'' which earned her a César nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. In 2005 she joined forces with ''Gérald Hustache-Mathieu'' for his first feature film, ''Avril Avril mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miou-Miou
Sylvette Herry (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Miou-Miou (), is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Actress for the 1979 film ''Memoirs of a French Whore''. Her other films include ''This Sweet Sickness'' (1977), '' Entre Nous'' (1983), ''May Fools'' (1990), '' Germinal'' (1993), ''Dry Cleaning'' (1997) and ''Arrêtez-moi'' (2013). In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle. Early life Miou-Miou was born Sylvette Herry in Paris. Her stage name, Miou-Miou (a reference to the sound of a cat), was given to her by Coluche. She was raised in Paris by her mother, a greengrocer. Career After studying acting Miou-Miou worked in improvisational theater with Coluche and Patrick Dewaere, joining with them to help found the new comedy theatre Café de la Gare. She made her film de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Duvauchelle
Nicolas Duvauchelle (born 27 March 1980) is a French actor, perhaps best known for his role as Theo in three seasons of the crime drama ''Braquo''. Career Duvauchelle starred in numerous films including ''Lightweight'', '' À tout de suite'' and ''Le Grand Meaulnes''. He has worked with Béatrice Dalle on films such as '' Trouble Every Day'' and ''Inside''. Personal life Duvauchelle has three children: daughters Bonnie (with ex-partner Ludivine Sagnier Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress and model who has appeared on screen since 1989. She was nominated three times for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Swimming Pool'' (2003), ''Peter Pan'' (2003), and '' A ...) and Romy (with Laura Isaaz, a journalist and sister of actress Alice Isaaz), and son Andrea (with model Anouchka Alsif). Filmography Theater Notes External links * 1980 births Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clément Sibony
Clément Sibony (born 30 November 1976) is a French actor and film director. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1991. He won the award for Best Actor at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival for his role in ''Taking Wing''. Selected filmography * ''French Kiss (1995 film), French Kiss'' (1995) * ''Déjà mort'' (1998) * ''Cours Toujours'' (2000) * ''Taking Wing'' (2000) * ''He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (film), He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not'' (2002) * ''Let My People Go! (2011 film), Let My People Go!'' (2011) * ''Voir la mer'' (2011) * ''Pour une femme'' (2013) * ''Not to Be'' (2013) (short film, director) * ''The Hundred-Foot Journey (film), The Hundred-Foot Journey'' (2014) * ''The Walk (2015 film), The Walk'' (2015) * ''Altamira (film), Altamira'' (2016) References External links * 1976 births Living people French male film actors Male actors from Paris 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richaud Valls
Richaud is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Étienne Richaud, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic *André de Richaud (1909–1961), French poet and writer *Benoît Richaud (born 1988), French ice dancer *Paul Marie André Richaud Paul-Marie-André Richaud (16 April 1887 – 5 February 1968) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Bordeaux from 1950 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. Biography Paul Richaud was ... (1887–1968), French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneviève Casile
Genevieve (french: link=no, Sainte Geneviève; la, Sancta Genovefa, Genoveva; 419/422 AD – 502/512 AD) is the patroness saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Her feast is on 3 January. Genevieve was born in Nanterre and moved to Paris (then known as Lutetia) after encountering Germanus of Auxerre and Lupus of Troyes and dedicated herself to a Christian life.McNamara, Halborg, and Whatley 18. In 451 she led a "prayer marathon" that was said to have saved Paris by diverting Attila's Huns away from the city. When the Germanic king Childeric I besieged the city in 464, Genevieve acted as an intermediary between the city and its besiegers, collecting food and convincing Childeric to release his prisoners. Her following and her status as patron saint of Paris were promoted by Clotilde, who may have commissioned the writing of her ''vita''. This was most likely written in Tours, where Clotilde retired after her husband's death, as evidenced also by the importan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Mélinand
Monique Mélinand (9 March 1916 – 16 May 2012) was a French film and television actress.Capua p.177 Selected filmography * ''Rouletabille joue et gagne'' (1947) * ''Rouletabille contre la dame de pique'' (1948) * ''Between Eleven and Midnight'' (1949) - Irma * ''Au royaume des cieux'' (1949) - Mademoiselle Guérande * ''Lady Paname'' (1950) - Costa - l'accompagnatrice * '' Old Boys of Saint-Loup'' (1950) - Hélène Laclaux * ''The Drunkard'' (1953) - Denise Lamarche * '' Blood to the Head'' (1956) - Marthe Cardinaud * ''Women Are Weak'' (1959) - Mme Fenal, Julien's mother * ''Magnificent Sinner'' (1959) - Tsarina Maria * ''Vers l'extase'' (1960) - Mme Schultz * ''The End of Belle'' (1961) - Mme. Monique Blanchon * ''Rencontres'' (1962) - Inès * '' La Bonne Soupe'' (1964) - La mère de Marie * ''Angélique, Marquise des Anges'' (1964) - La Marquise du Plessis-Bellières (uncredited) * ''The Great Spy Chase'' (1964) - Mme Lagneau (uncredited) * ''The Thief of Paris'' (1967) - Mm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Comedy Films
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s French Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
