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A Bad Son
''A Bad Son'' (french: Un mauvais fils) is a 1980 French drama film directed by Claude Sautet. It tells the story of a young man who is sent back to France after a sentence for narcotics in the USA and tries to restart his life, but has difficulty relating to his widowed father and suffers the pain of falling in love with a girl who is an addict. Plot After five years in a US prison for drug dealing, Bruno arrives back in Paris and goes to his father's apartment, his mother having died while he was in jail. His father is supportive and next night takes him out, but explodes in rage when Bruno asks two prostitutes to their table, saying that it was his fault that his mother died of barbiturates. Bruno moves out and finds manual work, though he trained as a cabinet maker. When he pays a compulsory visit to a rehabilitation clinic, they suggest a more congenial job in a bookshop that has already taken Catherine, a recovering addict. She and Bruno fall for each other and he moves in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet (23 February 1924 – 22 July 2000) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was a chronicler of post-war French society. He made a total of five films with his favorite actress Romy Schneider. Biography Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer. His first movie, '' Hello Smile!'' (originally ''Bonjour Sourire'') was released in 1956. He earned international attention with ''The Things of Life'' (''Les choses de la vie'', 1970), which he wrote and directed, like the rest of his later films. Featuring Michel Piccoli in the male lead, it was shown in competition at the 1970 Cannes Festival. The film also revived the career of Romy Schneider; she acted in several of Sautet's later films. In his next film ''Max and the Junkmen'' ('' Max et les Ferrailleurs'', 1971) Schneider played a prostitute, while in ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Sarde
Alain Sarde is a French film producer and actor. Early life Alain Sarde was born on 28 March 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Career David Lynch's ''Mulholland Drive'', a film Sarde co-produced, received the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture. '' The Pianist'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Another film of his – '' Intimate Strangers'' – is being remade by Paramount Pictures. Filmography *''Don't Touch The White Woman!'' (1974) *''Barocco'' (1976) *'' First Name: Carmen'' (1983) *'' My Best Friend's Girl'' (1983) *'' Mixed Blood'' (1985) *'' Bitter Moon'' (1992) *'' L.627'' (1992) *''Wild Reeds'' (1994) *''L'Appât'' (1995) *'' Nelly and Mr. Arnaud'' (1995) *''Ponette'' (1996) *'' La Belle Verte'' (1996) *''Dry Cleaning'' (1997) *''An Air So Pure'' (1997) *''Place Vendôme'' (1998) *''Alice and Martin'' (1998) *'' Children of the Century'' (1999) *''Le coeur à l'ouvrage'' (2000) *''Water Dro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Dewaere
Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982) was a French film actor. Born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, he was the son of French actress Mado Maurin. Actor from a young age, his career lasted more than 21 years, until his suicide in Paris, in 1982. Career Early life Patrick Dewaere was the third child of an actors family. Under the direction of his mother, Mado Maurin, Patrick, his four brothers and his sister played in movies and television series. The family lived in Paris. Dewaere attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. One of his first TV appearances was in 1961, when he was 14 years old. He appeared in a video for the song " Nuits d'Espagne" by Dalida. Later, he was a promising and popular French actor in the late 1960s and 1970s. Debuts as "Patrick Dewaere" At the age of 17, Dewaere learned that he was not the biological child of his mother’s ex-husband, Pierre-Marie Bourdeaux, but that of conductor and singer Michel Têtard. In 1968, he took the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Robert
Yves Robert (19 June 1920 – 10 May 2002) was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Life and career Robert was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. In his teens, he went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with unpaid parts on stage in the city's various theatre workshops. From ages 12–20 he set type as a typographer, then studied mime in his early 20s. In 1948 he made his motion picture debut with one of the secondary roles in the film, ''Les Dieux du dimanche''. Within a few years, Robert was writing scripts, directing, and producing. Yves Robert's directorial efforts included several successful comedies for which he had written the screenplay. His 1962 film, ''War of the Buttons (1962 film), La Guerre des boutons'' won France's Prix Jean Vigo. His 1972 film ''The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire'' won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1973. In 1976, ''Un éléphant à ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Fossey
Brigitte Florence Fossey (; born 15 June 1946) is a French actress. Early years The daughter of a schoolteacher, Fossey was five years old when she was cast by director René Clément to star in his film, ''Jeux interdits, Forbidden Games''.Brigitte Fossey Fossey played the role of an innocent child orphaned by World War II. The film won numerous awards worldwide, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Fossey was hired by American actor/director Gene Kelly for his 1957 film, ''The Happy Road''. When Fossey was ten years old her parents took her out of the film business so she could receive proper schooling. While completing her education, Fossey studied piano and dance and then went on to work in Geneva, Switzerland as an interpreting, interpreter/translation, translator. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Dufilho
Jacques Dufilho (19 February 1914 – 28 August 2005) was a French actor. He was born at Bègles (Gironde) and he died at Ponsampère (Gers). Life and career Dufilho appeared in 65 French productions. Moreover, he was frequently seen in Italian films. In 1978 he received a César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''Le Crabe-tambour'' and in 1980 another one for his role in '' Un mauvais fils''. The actor was also known as a collector of Bugatti vintage car A vintage car is, in the most general sense, an old automobile, and in the narrower senses of car enthusiasts and collectors, it is a car from the period of 1919 to 1930. Such enthusiasts have categorization schemes for ages of cars that enf ...s. Selected filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dufilho, Jacques 1914 births 2005 deaths French male film actors People from Bègles Best Supporting Actor César Award winners 20th-century French male actors 21st-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Maurier
Claire Maurier (born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon; March 27, 1929) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 90 films since 1947. Life and career Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon on March 27, 1929 in the French commune of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, which is in the southwest of France. She started her acting career in small film roles at the end of the 1940s. Her first 'main' role came when she portrayed Gilberte Doinel, the mother of the main character in François Truffaut's 1959 film ''The 400 Blows''. Another notable early role of hers was as Christiane Colombey, the bigamist wife of the main character in the 1963 film '' La Cuisine au beurre''. In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro's film '' La Cage aux Folles'' as Simone. In 1981, she was nominated the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''A Bad Son''. She played Madeleine, a seductive older woman. In 2001, she gained international recognition w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Boffety
Jean Bofferty (7 June 1925 – 25 June 1988) was a French New Wave cinematographer known for his collaborations with directors such as Robert Enrico, Pierre Étaix, and Claude Sautet. In 1979 Bofferty was nominated for a César Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Sautet's '' A Simple Story''. Selected filmography * 1962: ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'', by Robert Enrico * 1964: '' Les Yeux cernés'', by Robert Hossein * 1965: ''Yo Yo'', by Pierre Étaix * 1966: ''Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?'', by William Klein * 1966: ''Un monde nouveau'', by Vittorio De Sica * 1966: ''Les Grandes Gueules'', by Robert Enrico * 1967: '' Les Aventuriers'', by Robert Enrico * 1967: '' Far from Vietnam'' * 1968: ''Love in the Night'' * 1968: ''Tante Zita'', by Robert Enrico * 1968: ''Je t'aime, je t'aime'', by Alain Resnais * 1969: '' The Great Love'', by Pierre Étaix * 1970: ''The Things of Life'', by Claude Sautet * 1971: ', by Yves Boisset * 1972: '' Les malheurs d'Alfred'', by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Sarde
Philippe Sarde (born 21 June 1948) is a French film composer. Considered among the most versatile and talented French film composers of his generation, Sarde has scored over two hundred films, film shorts, and television mini-series. He received an Academy Award nomination for ''Tess'' (1979), and twelve César Award nominations, winning for ''Barocco'' (1976) and ''The Judge and the Assassin'' (1976). In 1993, Sarde received the Joseph Plateau Music Award. Life and career Philippe Sarde was born 21 June 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. His mother, Andrée Gabriel, was a singer in the Paris Opera. Through his mother's encouragement, he became interested in music from the early age of three. When he was four years old, he conducted a brief section of ''Carmen'' at the Paris Opera. At the age of five, he began experimenting with sound recording and made his first short films. Sarde loved both music and film, and had trouble deciding on his career di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Chicot
Étienne Chicot (5 May 1949 – 7 August 2018) was a French actor and composer. . ''Stephane Larue''. Retrieved 8 August 2018. Filmography Theatre References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chicot, Etienne French male film actors 1949 births 2018 deaths[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laure Duthilleul
Laure Duthilleul (born 14 January 1959) is a French actress, director and screenwriter. She has appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1981. She has appeared in five films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. She is the daughter of French architect Jean Duthilleul and the sister of Jean-Marie Duthilleul Jean-Marie Duthilleul (born 1952) is a French architect and civil engineer. Education He studied architecture at the École de Paris La Seine, Paris and engineering at the École Polytechnique and the École des Ponts et Chaussées (now ). .... Filmography Actress Filmmaker Theater References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duthilleul, Laure 1959 births Living people French film actresses People from Versailles 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses French television actresses French stage actresses French women film directors French women screenwriters French screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Drama Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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