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Alban Lenoir
Alban Lenoir (born 16 December 1980) is a French actor, screenwriter and stuntman. He was nominated for a Lumières Award for his leading role in the film '' French Blood'' (2015). Career As a stuntman, he has worked on ''Les Brigades du Tigre'' (2006), '' Taken'' (2008), ''Hero Corp'' (2008-2010), ''The Princess of Montpensier'' (2010), '' Outside the Law'' (2010), ''Point Blank Point-blank range is any distance over which a certain firearm can hit a target without the need to compensate for bullet drop, and can be adjusted over a wide range of distances by sighting in the firearm. If the bullet leaves the barrel paral ...'' (2010), '' Erased'' (2012). Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lenoir, Alban 1980 births 21st-century French male actors Actors from Dijon Living people French male screenwriters French screenwriters Writers from Dijon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named ''Divio'', located on the road between Lyon and Paris. The province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries, and Dijon became a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning, and science. The city has retained varied architectural styles from many of the main periods of the past millennium, including Capetian, Gothic, and Renaissance. Many still-inhabited town-houses in the city's central district date from the 18th century and earlier. Dijon's architecture is distinguished by, among other things, '' toits bourguignons'' (Burgu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur N
''Monsieur N.'' is a 2003 British-French film directed by Antoine de Caunes. It tells the story of the last years of the life of the Emperor Napoléon (played by Philippe Torreton), who was imprisoned by the British on St Helena. Napoléon retained a loyal entourage of officers who helped him plot his escape, and evaded the attentions of Major-General Sir Hudson Lowe ( Richard E. Grant), the island's overzealous Governor. The film suggests that Napoléon could have escaped to Louisiana, where he died, and that the body exhumed and now at Les Invalides is that of Napoléon's officer Cipriani. The film also suggests that Napoléon and his young new English wife, Betsy Balcombe, could have attended the ceremony of "Napoléon's" burial in the Invalides. Plot Napoleon is imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Here he dreams of how to escape from his captivity in his last "battle". Reception The film was well-received. , 71% of the 21 reviews c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WorkinGirls
Workingirls is a French television series, broadcast since April 19, 2012 on Canal +. Premise WorkinGirls describes the daily life of a company which employs six girls and which records their behaviour: Karine, the sadistic director, Nathalie, the mother with a large family, Helen, the psychologically disturbed, Deborah, the nymphomaniac, and Sophie and Sophie, the little Switchboard welcoming, very lazy. Cast and characters Main * Claude Perron as Karine Brontier (Season 1-4) * Laurence Arné as Déborah Vernon (Season 1-4) * Blanche Gardin as Hélène Grilloux (Season 1-3) * Vanessa David as Nathalie Roneaudi (Season 1-4) * Alice Belaïdi as Sophie Marteauni (Season 1-4) * Clémence Faure as Sophie Martineau (Season 1-4) Recurring * Franck Bellocq as Bernard (Season 1-3) * Pascal Stencel as Jean-Luc (Season 1-3) * Cybèle Villemagne as Joëlle (Season 1-3) * Edith le Merdy as Maria (Season 1-3) * Ludovic Pinette as Michel (Season 1-3) * Dimitri Rataud as Karine's lover (Season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes (; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions. Work Despentes' work is an inventory of youth Social exclusion, marginalization; it pertains to the sexual revolution lived by Generation X and to the acclimation of pornography in public spaces through new communication techniques. With a transgressive exploration of obscenity's limits, as a novelist or a Filmmaking, film-maker she proposes social critique and an antidote to the new moral order. Her characters deal with misery and injustice, self-violence such as drug addiction, or violence towards others such as rape or terrorism, violences she has also suffered from. She is one of the most popular French authors from this era. "Despentes is a legend in France, especially among young women. Much of this reputation rests on her first novel, ''Baise-moi'' (1994)" "Although mostl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bye Bye Blondie
''Bye Bye Blondie'' is a 2012 French comedy film directed by Virginie Despentes. Cast *Emmanuelle Béart as Frances ** Clara Ponsot as Young Frances * Béatrice Dalle as Gloria **Soko as Young Gloria *Pascal Greggory as Claude *Stomy Bugsy as Frances's driver * as Véro *Jean-Marc Royon as Michel *Olivia Csiky Trnka as Hélène *Mata Gabin as The maid *Nina Roberts as The coach *Camille Chamoux as Tonina * Alban Lenoir as Cop Reception Boyd van Hoeij of ''Variety'' called ''Bye Bye Blondie'' "punk and pouty" adding that "he film He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...casts luscious-lipped Gallic sexpots Beatrice Dalle and Emmanuelle Beart as middle-aged lovers who can't seem to live with or without each other". Simon Foster of SBS wrote "Lesbian love affair a little l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Huppert
Caroline Huppert (born 28 October 1950) is a French film director and screenwriter. She is the sister of French actress Isabelle Huppert and has directed more than 30 films since 1977. Early life and career Huppert was born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of Annick (''née'' Beau; 1914–1990), an English language teacher, and Raymond Huppert (1914–2003), a safe manufacturer. she has a brother and three sisters, including French actress Isabelle Huppert. She was raised in Ville-d'Avray. Her father was Jewish; his Jewish family is from Eperjes, Austria-Hungary (now Prešov) and Alsace-Lorraine. Huppert was raised in her mother's Catholic faith. On her mother's side, she is a great-granddaughter of one of the Callot Soeurs. Selected filmography * ''No Trifling with Love ''No Trifling with Love'' (french: On ne badine pas avec l'amour) is a 1977 French drama film directed by Caroline Huppert. It is based on the theatrical work of Alfred de Musset of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Morel
Pierre Morel (born 12 May 1964) is a French film director and cinematographer. His work includes ''District 13'', '' From Paris with Love'', and '' Taken.'' Career After spending his formative years in cinema school, Morel debuted in 2000 as camera operator with the first Richard Berry's film ''L'Art (délicat) de la séduction''. The following year, he began a career as cinematographer, working with such directors as Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen, Nancy Meyers, Alek Keshishian, Luc Besson and Phillip Atwell. At the same time, he directed his first film ''District 13'' in 2004, followed by '' Taken'' in 2008 and '' From Paris with Love'' in 2010. Morel was attached to Paramount's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' but left the project before it was cancelled. In 2015, he directed the action film '' The Gunman'', starring Sean Penn, Javier Bardem and Idris Elba Idrissa Akuna Elba (; born 6 September 1972) is an English actor. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Astier
Alexandre Astier (born 16 June 1974) is a French writer, director, editor, scriptwriter, humorist, actor and composer. Astier is most known as the creator, director, writer, editor, composer, and lead actor of the French television series ''Kaamelott'', in which he also plays King Arthur. Life and career Alexandre Astier was born in Lyon on June 16, 1974, to Joëlle Sevilla and Lionnel Astier, both actors and producers mostly in Lyon's theatre scene. Alexandre Astier studied music at the conservatory and at the American School of Modern Music of Paris. He also studied acting and screenwriting. Four of Astier's seven children have featured in ''Kaamelott'', and both his parents are main characters in the series. His daughters Ariane and Jeanne Astier play respectively Mehben and Mehgan, the daughters of Karadoc and Maevanwi (in the episodes Pupi and Exiles). His son Neil (who also appears as Karadoc and Mevanwi's son in Pupi) plays young Arthur in the season Book V, and in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaamelott
''Kaamelott'' is a French comedy medieval fantasy television series created, directed, written, scored, and edited by Alexandre Astier, who also starred as the main character. Based on the Arthurian legends, it followed the daily lives of King Arthur (Alexandre Astier) and his Knights of the Round Table in Camelot. The series, which originally ran for six seasons (referred to as "books"), ran from 2005 to 2009, on the network M6. The series was preceded in 2003 by a short film, ''Dies iræ'', with mostly the same cast and concept, which was used to pitch the idea of the series to the network, which at a time was looking to replace another successful short TV series, ''Caméra Café''. However, ''Kaamelott'' exceeded ''Caméra Café''s audience only three weeks after broadcasting started. It is widely regarded as one of the best, most iconic, and most popular French TV series of all time. It has also been praised for its fidelity as, outside of comedic and linguistic liberties, it s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Green Hornet (2006 Film)
''The Green Hornet'' (French language, French: ''Le frelon vert'') is a 2006 French Superhero film, superhero short film, based on The Green Hornet character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Plot The Green Hornet attempts to prove his innocence by capturing a criminal; while tracking him, the Green Hornet is ambushed, and Green Hornet and Kato must fight off the goons and prove their innocence. Cast * Manu Lanzi as The Green Hornet * Patrick Vo as Kato (The Green Hornet), Kato * Alban Lenoir See also * Green Hornet * Kato (The Green Hornet), Kato References External links The Green Hornet (Official Page) Short film directed by Aurélien PoitrimoultThe film* *THE GREEN HORNET (LE FRELON VERT) 2006 films French short films Films based on television series Martial arts films French vigilante films Fan films The Green Hornet films English-language French films 2000s English-language films 2000s French films {{comics-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte De Turckheim
Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim (born 5 April 1955) is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer. Born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France, the daughter of Françoise Husson and Arnaud de Turckheim, a member of a noble Protestant family from Alsace, Charlotte de Turckheim studied theater after completing her baccalauréat degree. She has appeared in numerous films. In 2007, she participated in ''Rendez-vous en terre inconnue''. On Feb 25, 2014, it was announced that she would present a French version of the BBC's ''Antiques Roadshow'' The writer Émilie de Turckheim is her cousin. She is a descendant of the French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer Adrien de Turckheim of the company Lorraine-Dietrich. Filmography Actress Screenwriter / Director Theater References External links * * Allociné 1955 births Living people People from Montereau-Fault-Yonne French film actresses French comedians French film producers 20th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Aristos
''Les Aristos'' is a 2006 French comedy film directed by Charlotte de Turckheim. Plot The Arbac Family Neuville is a family of penniless aristocrats, that to survive and continue living their castle into disrepair, need to conduct some tricks like selling fake antiques to tourists. One day arises a bailiff commissioned by the Treasury for the recovery of a sum of nearly two million euro in respect of tax. In the event of default, all the family property will be seized. Follows a race against time to find the money. Everything is tried: a visit to the distant cousins still rich, a job search at the employment center in the Pauline boards, letter carrier and family friend, nothing works. Finally, Charles-Antoine, the eldest, who will have to go to a rally to go fishing to young unmarried aristocrat, namely Marie-Astrid Saumur-Chantilly Fortemure, wealthy heiress but particularly repulsive and stupid. Marriage is about to be organized, but Anthony Charles becomes infatuated with Paulin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
