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Benoît Ferreux
Benoît Ferreux (; born 29 September 1955) is a French film, television and stage actor who is possibly best recalled internationally for his role in the 1971 film ''Murmur of the Heart''. Career as a child actor Benoît Ferreux was born in Bordeaux. In early 1970, at age 14, he was cast to appear in director Louis Malle's 1971 coming-of-age drama ''Murmur of the Heart'' (french: Le souffle au cœur). Set in 1954, Ferreux played Laurent Chevalier, a boy living in Dijon who is coming to terms with his burgeoning sexuality and his close relationship with his Italian mother Clara (portrayed by Lea Massari), which ultimately leads to an incestuous liaison at a sanatorium where he is being treated for a heart murmur. The film was selected for competition at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. The same year, Ferreux appeared alongside actors Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni in the Nadine Trintignant directed drama '' It Only Happens to Others'' (French: '' Ça n'arrive qu'aux autre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called ''"Bordelais"'' (masculine) or ''"Bordelaises"'' (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 260,958 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , With its 27 suburban municipalities it forms the Bordeaux Metropolis, in charge of metropolitan issues. With a population of 814,049 at the Jan. 2019 census. it is the fifth most populated in France, after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille and ahead of Toulouse. Together with its suburbs and exurbs, except satellite cities of Arcachon and Libourne, the Bordeaux metropolitan area had a population of 1,363,711 that same year (Jan. 2019 census), ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Von Sydow
Max von Sydow ( , ; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. He became a French citizen in 2002 and lived in France for the last two decades of his life. Capable in roles ranging from stolid, contemplative protagonists to sardonic artists and menacing, often gleeful villains, von Sydow was first noticed internationally for playing the 14th-century knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's ''The Seventh Seal'' (1957), which features iconic scenes of his character challenging Death to a game of chess. He appeared in a total of eleven films directed by Bergman, among which were ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960) and '' Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He starred in a third winner, Bille August's ''Pelle the Conq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Wind
''The Second Wind'' (french: Le Deuxième Souffle) is a 2007 French crime film directed by Alain Corneau and starring Daniel Auteuil and Monica Bellucci. It is a remake of the 1966 film '' Le Deuxième Souffle''. Cast * Daniel Auteuil - Gustave 'Gu' Minda * Monica Bellucci - Simona - dite 'Manouche' * Michel Blanc - Commissaire Blot * Jacques Dutronc - Stanislas Orloff * Eric Cantona - Alban * Daniel Duval - Venture Ricci * Gilbert Melki - Jo Ricci * Nicolas Duvauchelle - Antoine * Jacques Bonnaffé - Pascal * Philippe Nahon - Commissaire Fardiano * Jean-Paul Bonnaire - Théo, le passeur * Jean-Claude Dauphin Jean-Claude Dauphin, born Claude Legrand on March 16, 1948 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French actor. Biography He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew ho ... - le notaire * Francis Renaud - Letourneur See also * '' Le deuxième souffle'' (1966) References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Brasier
''Le Brasier'' is a French film directed by Éric Barbier, released in 1991. This was the first full-length feature film directed by Barbier. Synopsis Based around the social struggles of a mining area in the 1930s, ''Le Brasier'' was the first French film to have a budget of more than 100 million francs, the highest budget in the history of French cinema at that point. The film was a commercial disaster, selling less than 40,000 tickets in the Paris region. Details * Original title: ''Le Brasier'' * Director: Éric Barbier * Writers: Éric Barbier, Jean-Pierre Barbier * Length: 122 minutes * Format : Colour * Photography : Thierry Arbogast * Executive producer: Jean-François Lepetit * Release date: France: 30 January 1991 Starring * Jean-Marc Barr : Victor * Maruschka Detmers : Alice * Thierry Fortineau : Emile * François Hadji-Lazaro : Gros * Serge Merlin Shooting * The film was shot in three countries: Belgium (notably at Charleroi), Poland (Świętochłowice - Lipiny) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Until September
''Until September'' is a 1984 romantic drama film directed by Richard Marquand and starring Karen Allen and Thierry Lhermitte. The plot concerns an American tourist and a French banker who fall in love in Paris. Plot Moe Alexander (Karen Allen) is an American tourist in Paris. When she misses her plane home, she ends up being stuck in Paris for a while until her visa gets approved and goes to stay at the apartment of a friend who is away for the summer. There she meets Xavier de la Perouse (Thierry Lhermitte), a wealthy French banker. Xavier is married but his wife and family are away. As he spends time with Moe, their mutual attraction is overwhelming and they fall in love. Cast * Karen Allen as Mo Alexander * Thierry Lhermitte as Xavier de la Perouse * Christopher Cazenove as Philip * Hutton Cobb as Andrew * Michael Mellinger as Colonel Viola * Nitza Shaul as Sylvia * Rachel Robertson as Carol * Raphaëlle Spencer as Jenny * Joanna Pavlis as Marcia * Helen Desbiez as Sophie * St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Days One Summer
''Five Days One Summer'' is a 1982 American romantic drama film directed and produced by Fred Zinnemann from a screenplay by Michael Austin, based on the 1929 short story ''Maiden, Maiden'' by Kay Boyle. Set primarily in the Alps, the story focuses on Douglas Meredith ( Sean Connery) and his lover Kate ( Betsy Brantley) as they embark on a mountain climbing trip, which unravels their relationship due to Kate's feelings for their mountain guide (Lambert Wilson) as well as a dark secret that looms over the couple. ''Five Days One Summer'' served as Zinnermann's final film before his death. The film was a commercial and critical failure. Plot In 1932, Douglas Meredith, a middle-aged Scottish doctor, is on a mountain climbing trip in the Alps with a young woman, Kate, whom he introduces as his wife. Despite being side-eyed by their hotel's guests and staff due to their large age difference, Douglas and Kate are deeply in love, with their romance in full display. They are introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonraker (film)
''Moonraker'' is a 1979 Spy-fi (subgenre), spy-fi film, the eleventh in the List of James Bond films, ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond filmography, James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, and Richard Kiel. Bond investigates the theft of a Space Shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Holly Goodhead, Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon rainforest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and to recreate humanity with a master race. The story was intended by author Ian Fleming to become a film even before he completed the Moonraker (novel), novel in 1954; he based it on a screenplay manuscript he had devised earlier. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Maître-nageur
''Le Maître-nageur'' is a 1979 French comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Cast * Guy Marchand : Marcel Potier * Stefania Sandrelli : Marie Mariani Potier * Jean-Claude Brialy : Logan * Moustache : Achille Zopoulos * Jean-Louis Trintignant : The gardener of Zopoulos * Christian Marquand : Paul Jouriace * François Perrot : Maître Dalloz * Serge Marquand Serge Marquand was a French actor and film producer (12 March 1930 – 4 September 2004). He died of advanced leukemia. He was the brother of Nadine Trintignant and Christian Marquand. Filmography *1959: ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' ... : Alfredo References External links * 1979 films 1979 comedy-drama films French comedy-drama films 1979 comedy films 1979 drama films 1970s French films {{comedy-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'enfant Secret
''The Secret Son'' (french: L'enfant secret) is a 1979 French film written and directed by Philippe Garrel. It stars Anne Wiazemsky as Elie and Henri de Maublanc as Jean-Baptiste, a filmmaker. The original film score was composed by Faton Cahen who reprised his collaboration with Garrel on ''Liberté, la nuit'' (1983), ''Paris vu par… 20 ans après'' (1984) and ''J'entends plus la guitare'' (1991). It was premiered in Paris in 1979 and received wider release in 1982. In October 2017, it was released in cinemas in the United States. The film won Prix Jean Vigo in 1982. Cast * Anne Wiazemsky as Elie * Henri de Maublanc as Jean-Baptiste * Xuan Lindenmeyer as Swann, Elie's child * Cécile Le Bailly as Chloé * Elli Medeiros Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress. Career Stinky Toys Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the ... as the who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Nozière
''Violette Nozière'' is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encounters with a number of older men. The film had a total of 1,074,507 admissions in France. Plot Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) is a French teen in the 1930s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents, father Baptiste Nozière (Jean Carmet) and mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran). Rebelling against her "mean and petty" petit-bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings. Meanwhile, her parents are informed by Violette's doctor that she has syphilis. Violette manages to half-persuade her suspicious mother and indulgent father that she has somehow inherited the disease from them. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guerrilla (1973 Film)
''The Guerrilla'' (Spanish:''La guerrilla'') is a 1973 French-Spanish historical war film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Francisco Rabal, Jacques Destoop and Julia Saly.Bentley p.205 It is set during the Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain .... Cast References Bibliography * Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer 2008. External links * 1973 films French war drama films Spanish war drama films 1970s Spanish-language films Films directed by Rafael Gil Peninsular War films Films set in the 1810s Films set in Spain Films with screenplays by Rafael J. Salvia Guerrilla warfare in film 1970s Spanish films 1970s historical films French historical films Spanish historical films {{1970s-Spain-film- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Bellucci
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (; born 30 September 1964) is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before making a transition to Italian films and later American and French films. She made her film debut in Francesco Laudadio's Italian comedy '' La Riffa'' (1991). The following year she played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror romance film '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' (1992). For her leading role in '' L'Appartement'' (1997), she received a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She played Malèna Scordia in the Giuseppe Tornatore's acclaimed Italian romantic drama '' Malèna'' (2000). She starred in Gaspar Noé's controversial arthouse psychological thriller film ''Irréversible'' (2002), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2004, she portrayed Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's biblical drama ''The Passion of the Christ'' (2004). She portrayed Persephone in the 2003 sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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